RSSEntries Tagged as 'Spirituality of the Church'
Rethinking National Confession
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 [...]
Ecclesiastical Totalitarianism
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?
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
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 [...]
Machen on Galatians
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 [...]
In Defense of a Theology of Cross and Glory: Part 2
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 of [...]
Those Wild, Wild, Whiggish Covenanters got me again!
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
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 unfortunante, [...]
The Spirituality of the Church and 1 Cor. 6:1-11
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 [...]