Posted in Rightly Divided Dogmatics, The 21st Century Church, tagged creature, dualism, eschatology, idolatry, judge, judgment, paganism on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8).
As I have mentioned in the previous posts, we live in tension. We need to walk a narrow path without falling into dualism on the one side and paganism on the other. We need to avoid diminishing our creatureliness by [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apple, g4, mac, macbook, powerbook on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks for the good times, for no viruses…ever. I’ll miss you.
Hello, MacBook.
Posted in Rightly Divided Dogmatics, The 21st Century Church, tagged end times, eschatology, gospel of matthew, left behind, rapture, rapturealert.com, raptureready.com, tim lahaye on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew 24:36-41
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah [...]
Posted in Rightly Divided Dogmatics, The 21st Century Church, tagged papacy, Pope, prayer, Roman Catholicism, turretinfan on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
TurretinFan has some great thoughts in his most recent post. He writes:
Benedict XVI used the following line in his “Good Friday” meditations: “Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.” That line is apparently taken from Brahadaranyakopanishad an Hindu writing. He also used a line from Tagore’s [...]
Posted in Rightly Divided Dogmatics, tagged cross, crucifixion, death, Jesus, john owen, martin luther, nails, sin on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Martin Luther once said that we all walk around with Jesus’ nails in our pockets. By that he means that we are the one’s who supplied the nails, we are the one’s who supplied the hammer, nay, we are the one’s who took the hammer and pounded the nails into His flesh. Carrying His nails [...]
Posted in A Call to the Unconverted, Rightly Divided Dogmatics, tagged anoint, blood, common, denarii, denarius, gold, gospel, Jesus, judas, mary, matthew, perfume, pig, shekel, silver on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Matt. 26:6-16
Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this could have been [...]
Posted in Apologia, tagged apologetic, assumption, cornelius van til, greg bahnsen, method, presupposition, presuppositional on April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Proverbs 26:4-5
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
At first glance this verse seems to be a total contradiction. For, it tells us on the one hand, “Do not answer,” and on the other, [...]
Posted in A Call to the Unconverted, Rightly Divided Dogmatics, tagged baptism, bible, briton, de-baptism, judgment, national secular society, nss, westminster confession of faith on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read an interesting article about Britons seeking “de-baptism.” The National Secular Society (NSS) is now producing and selling certificates of “de-baptism” for those who have left the faith and want to “undo” their baptism.
The problem is, from a Biblical standpoint, there is no such thing as being “de-baptized.” You see, one of the things that [...]
Thoughts of Francis Turretin
Why Idolatry Never Fails
Posted in Rightly Divided Dogmatics, tagged christopher wright, commentary, deuteronomy, gods, idolatry, israel on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came across this excellent quote from Christopher J. Wright’s commentary on Deuteronomy concerning idolatry:
Such is always the way of idolatry in human society, ancient and modern. False gods never fail to fail. Sadly, we never fail to forget (Christopher J. Wright, Deuteronomy, 303).
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