(The following was originally posted at Front Porch Republic on December 11th.) The Manhattan Declaration is almost a month old and it still a statement I regard with great ambivalence. My discomfort owes partly to the name. As a native of Southeastern Pennsylvania and a fan of Philadelphia’s college and professional sports teams, I am [...]
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What Does it Declare?
Posted in Spirituality of the Church, tagged Christ and culture, Christian liberty, culture wars on December 15, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Rethinking National Confession
Posted in Corporate Confession, Natural Law, Spirituality of the Church, Two Kingdoms on March 14, 2008 | 20 Comments »
To the RPCNA I owe my new life in Christ. She is my mother and I dearly love her. In loyalty to my mother I have tried to work through her doctrine of the mediatorial Kingship of Christ over the nations and to defend its 20th Century application National Confessionalism. I have always found National [...]
Ecclesiastical Totalitarianism
Posted in Spirituality of the Church on February 21, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Here’s an effort to separate the real from the faux neo-Calvinists. Recent interactions with seminarians have made me realize how popular the notion of cultural transformation is as the best understanding of the Reformed ministry. Whether called mercy ministry, urban missions, or word and deed, a wing of the Presbyterian world believes that the church [...]
The Empire Strikes Back?
Posted in 2008 Politics, Spirituality of the Church, Two Kingdoms on December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Huckabee’s pulpit squad better beware. It seems the IRS is on to them. What Caesar gives he can take away. Best to mind your p’s and q’s.
Obama’s Postmillenial Dream
Posted in Conservatism, Spirituality of the Church on October 8, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Talk about immanentizing the eschaton… a scary vision of the Kingdom. With Republican candidates struggling to make headway among evangelicals it would not be surprising to see 2008 as the year of the Christian left. How can people who reject all historic forms and tradition on Sunday not drift leftward the other six days? The [...]
Machen on Galatians
Posted in Corporate Confession, Spirituality of the Church on September 4, 2007 | 11 Comments »
This week I begin a preaching series through Galatians. In reading through J. Gresham Machen’s Notes on Galatians, I found this interesting quote. It first appeared in Christianity Today in January 1931. Machen died in 1937. I assume this comment is a product of Machen’s more mature thought: “In the second place, Christians should by [...]
In Defense of a Theology of Cross and Glory: Part 2
Posted in Spirituality of the Church, Two Kingdoms on June 27, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Andrew Matthews Obedience and Exaltation What is a theology of cross and glory? We all know what a “theology of the cross†is: since our Lord suffered, his followers must as well (John 15:18-21). Oppression and suffering provide the context in which hatred of God is revealed for what it is, in which the perseverance [...]
Those Wild, Wild, Whiggish Covenanters got me again!
Posted in Misc., Nature and Grace, Spirituality of the Church, Two Kingdoms on June 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My time as Chairman of the RPC Synod’s Committee for the Understanding the Times came to a very final conclusion at this evening’s session of Synod. My attempt to send the committee to its eternal slumber was defeated by a vote of 53-47. This was the last year of my term. For what it is [...]
RE: The Spirituality of the Church and 1 Cor. 6:1-11
Posted in Corporate Confession, Hart's Secular Faith, Spirituality of the Church, Two Kingdoms on May 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I did not want this comment to be lost in the shuffle. This is interesting. Darryl, what you say makes sense in the context we live. Our churches are like regional centers. People travel from miles around to gather to worship in our conservative Reformed and Presbyterian Churches. But this is a unique, and maybe [...]
The Spirituality of the Church and 1 Cor. 6:1-11
Posted in Corporate Confession, Spirituality of the Church on May 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I am no opponent of the grand Presbyterian doctrine of the Church’s spirituality. I have a question that in unresolved in my mind. In 1 Cor. 6:1-11, Paul warns believers not to go to the courts of the world for justice against other believers. Rather, he declares that jurisdiction belongs to the church courts, “are [...]
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