Proto-Protestantism

Sometimes this charge is made and the implication is that to be labeled a New Testament Christian is a negative thing, it is to neglect the ...

Recently I heard what I considered to be an extreme example of the Law-Gospel hermeneutic at work. It struck me in the same way Hyper-Calvi...

John MacArthur's latest newsletter addresses the current rash of protests and the growing complaint with regard to the police. Citing Fe...

Ninth century bishop Claudius (or Claude) of Turin sought to effect reformation within the Church. Originally from Spain he had contact with...

The Cultural Mandate or sometimes the Dominion Mandate refers to the command in Genesis 1.28 to be fruitful and multiply, to subdue the ea...

Commentators are revisiting the issue of ECT or Evangelicals and Catholics Together. The original document was penned in 1994 and since it ...

As of late, listening to the media makes my head spin. I often find myself not agreeing with anyone or how anyone frames the debate. This is...

How are we called to live under  tyrannical and murderous regimes, governments that claim universal conformity and have all but deified the...

I am pleased to note a growing number of voices questioning the Evangelical revisionism regarding Dietrich Bonhoeffer and I felt compelled t...

Leithart's "Defending Constantine" instantly became popular in the realm of Christian Right academia. We live in a time that ...

Christian media circles are awash with reports of mass conversions throughout the Middle East. Muslims are experiencing dreams and visions o...

Artificial Intelligence is all the rage at the moment as the Computer Revolution prepares to take a leap into its next phase of developm...

In Epistemology we can speak of categories which help us to organize and identify both ideas and entities. These categories can be approache...

The folks at Reformed Forum are always interesting. I enjoy their articles and listening to their podcasts. One of them recently posted a b...

I recently saw a post on Facebook by a housewife that expressed her 'pride' in her husband that he was working the long hours that w...

In the mid 17 th century there were Baptists remaining in Massachusetts that had not ventured to the newly founded safe-haven of Rhode Isla...

By using the law (the threat of violence) to force people to become Christians and act in Christian manner means that instead of making dis...

Though many churches elevate Scripture as God's Word and many profess to follow Scripture Alone, the reality is far different. We are su...

For those of you who haven't heard of Hengstenberg he was a German theologian and professor who in the midst of the Higher Critical mov...

The issue of Bible translations has proven to be a very confusing one. Christians are rightly concerned for the text of Scripture and there ...

Taking on this status allows organizations to collect money and yet be exempt from many of the normal tax requirements. The monies are used ...

Recently I've been listening to some podcasts put out by Dallas Theological Seminary which if you don't know it already is usually...

It depends on what you mean by a 'Church' building. If you mean are we opposed to a body of believers meeting under a roof, then the...

One of the oldest and perhaps greatest of theological questions is how do the Old and New Testaments relate to one another? Is there total d...

These essays are providing quick summaries of our position. They're not exegetical papers. We're not trying to make the Scriptural c...

The term fundamentalist has unfortunately been abused and largely hijacked. While we share the concerns of the early Fundamentalists in comb...

Creeds are helpful as guides both to the past and to the issues which we must wrestle with when approaching Scripture. We cannot divorce our...

Following the pattern of the Early Church when it largely met in homes our meetings our informal and yet not casual. We seek simplicity and ...

To answer simply we would have to say both Yes and No. Of course there is also the problem of the many definitions of this term. Not everyon...

On what basis do we approach God? On what basis do we petition and praise Him? How do we enter the Throne Room so to speak? What gives us t...

I find it interesting that some conservatives are unable to grasp the issues behind the recent racial upheaval. I've seen some are posti...

How does he fit into the spectrum of Reformed Theology and the ideas you are presenting? I've actually written about MacArthur be...

The Burning of the Books in Ephesus Is this an example of cultural transformation? It points to transformation but it's not the same...

Isn't this an example of a Christian holding public office? Yes it is. Paul mentions Erastus the oikonomos of the city at the end of...

Can Christians embrace a form of Anarchism? Jacques Ellul thought so, and he's by no means alone. There's a spectrum to Anarchism. H...