Contributors to this book include Blocher, Carson, McCormack, Helm, Wright, and MacLeod.

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I have answered Doug’s previous post on his own blog. I am waiting for an answer to those comments. Meanwhile, we can move on to the Trinity. My previous thoughts on the first major section are to be found here. I don’t have a whole lot to add. I wish to reaffirm the covenant of redemption as being the archetype of the covenant of works and the covenant of grace. I believe that the articles in CJPM and BFA have established this position not only as exegetically tenable, but confessionally compelling. However, there is one massive caveat that must be issued with all such attem... [read more]

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There is a new website up that will keep updates on a regular basis on the PCA. See here. This has long been a desideratum. It is good to see that Dominic Aquila and Don Clements are going to keep us up to date. A New Web Magazine for PCA News and Information   The Aquila Report is a new and independent web magazine for news and information for, of and about the Presbyterian Church in America and other churches in the Reformed community. The editor, Dominic Aquila, is a PCA minister and president of New Geneva Theological Seminary in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was moderator of the 34th PCA... [read more]

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Jonah is one of my favorite books of the Bible, and this author is one of my favorite authors. The combination is sure to be good.

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Matthew 11:13-15 4/27/2008 Audio Version Here are Edgar Fiedler’s Forecasting Rules. (1) It is very difficult to forecast, especially about the future. (2) He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. (3) The moment you forecast, you know you’re going to be wrong — you just don’t know when and in which direction. (4) If you’re ever right, never let them forget it. This is true of all human attempts at telling the future. We just do not know what is going to happen, and even if we think we do, we are just as often wrong as right. Even if for... [read more]

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Continuing on in the first article of Norman Shepherd in A Faith That Is Never Alone (and finishing that article), we come to this question: when Paul is talking about faith versus works, is Paul excluding all works from justification, or only some works? From Norman Shepherd’s own pen, we can see that his definition of faith does not exclude faith itself as being a work. He approves of Godfrey’s translation of Romans 1:5 of the phrase “the obedience of faith,” but then completely misunderstands the direction in which Godfrey takes that translation. This is what Godf... [read more]

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Richard H. Phillips, Turning Back the Darkness: The Biblical Pattern for Reformation, Wheaton: Crossway, 2002, paper, 192 pages including index, and Terry L. Johnson, The Case for Traditional Protestantism, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2004, paper, 182 pages including appendix and index. Reviewed by Barry Waugh. The word “reformation” brings different ideas to mind for the many churches of Western Christianity. For Roman Catholics it is a reminder of rebellion, wars, anti-clericalism, persecution, iconoclasm, and disturbing the uneasy though secure peace of papal hegemony, while fo... [read more]

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I know that Doug and I had another interesting conversation about baptism where Doug said that I was outside the bounds of the confession. It seems to be happening again. Here is my response. I think that Doug is still assuming that I am holding to some kind of strict merit schema in the Covenant of Works. To issue a counter example, in our present situation, has not God promised rewards for what we do over and above salvation? One thinks of the parable of the talents, as well as 1 Corinthians 3:12-15. How can we call that a reward either, if God’s predestination eliminates man&rsq... [read more]

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Doug continues our discussion, which I think is getting very interesting. It may be a while before I get to the next section in Credenda. Let me interact with his post in some detail. But if all Reformed theologians agree that obedience was necessary in the Garden, and a lot of them (as Lane concedes) believe that the covenant of works there was actually a gracious covenant, it follows from this that the required obedience, had it been rendered by Adam, would have been a gracious gift from God. This does not follow, in my opinion, since there is equivocation present here in the term “... [read more]

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The title of this blog post is also the title of Danny Hyde’s brand-new commentary on the Belgic Confession. I would like to review and recommend this book to our readers. Commentaries on the Belgic Confession are few, as Hyde notes (pp. 2-3, where Hyde calls the BC ”the neglected member of the Three Forms of Unity”). The other parts of the 3FU are the Heidelberg Catechism and the Canons of Dordt. The former is not neglected, since many preach on it, and there are many excellent commentaries on it. The latter are not neglected, since they set forth the so-called Fi... [read more]

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