But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you yet with gentleness and reverence; and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. 1 Peter 3: 14-16
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John Murray calls the 16th century Protestant Reformation “the greatest event for Christendom in the last 1500 years” (Collected Writings of John Murray Vol.2, p.203). The rediscovery of the gospel of God’s grace in Christ turned the world upside-down and changed...
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I am well qualified to describe the emotions that question invokes. I have heard it from parents, teachers, coaches, and employers furiously and frequently.
I never liked the phrase and I utilize it now with my only warrant being that sometimes the critic and the question did help me.
Sometimes it...
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In the previous post in this series going through the ten commandments, we began to look at the 7thcommandment, which simply says, “You shall not commit adultery.” (Exodus 20:14, ESV)
We saw last time from the Sermon on the Mount (found in Matthew chapters 5 through 7),...
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In our series of brief studies going through the ten commandments we now come to the seventh commandment, which says,
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.” (Exodus 20:14, KJV)
This commandment (like the rest of the ten commandments) is what I like to call an “umbrella...
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The Benefits of Christ’s Resurrection (Heidelberg Catechism Q.45)
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Every Easter Sunday Christians all around the world turn their attention to what the Scriptures say about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, and with good reason. Without the resurrection of Christ on the third day, there really is no Christianity.
In 1 Corinthians 15:17 Paul...
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A Book Review of Schipper’s Commentary on Ruth
Written by exceptionnotedRuth: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. By Jeremy Schipper. Anchor Yale Bible 7D. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016, 221 pp., $65.00. This is volume 7D in the Anchor Yale Bible Series whose general editor is John J. Collins. Jeremy Schipper is an associate professor of...
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Nehemiah Coxe: Cordwainer and Confession-maker
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If you’d like to know a little more about Nehemiah Coxe and the probability of his involvement in the editing of the 1677 confession, the following data will be of interest to you. The first two entries are from Thomas Pottenger, an English Baptist minister, published in the May, 1845 edition of “The Church.”
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Pastor Stefan Lindblad
A Guest Post from Stefan Lindblad*
An assertion is not an argument. Obvious, right? Sadly, much of the current internet imbroglio over the doctrine of the Trinity and the novel doctrine of the eternal functional subordination of the Son (henceforth EFS, and oh yes it is novel!) belies the obviousness of this...
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Evangelicalism has often been criticized for its lack of creeds and confessions. Yet there has been a consistent assumption, and perhaps assertion, that since evangelicals share a common subjective commitment to the Bible they must share a common commitment to the objective deposit of doctrine and the pattern of sound words in the...
The Trinity-Subordinationism Debate and the Opportunity Before Us
Written by exceptionnotedThe Lydia Center for Women and Families
In an insightful recent post, Christopher Cleveland explains “Why the Trinitarian Controversy Was Inevitable.” Cleveland’s diagnosis is perceptive, and I would like to extend it somewhat further and also suggest a way forward in terms of the opportunities our situation presents.
Clev...
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The following is a republished post from my old Blogger blog.
One of the more controversial positions of Confessional Reformed churches is our conviction that the Ten Commandments ought to be preached as an ethical code for Christians to follow.
It seems strange that there would be any contention on this point; ours has been the standard...
The Trinitarian Controversy and the Problem of Shallow Roots
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This isn’t my Norway Maple. (How did I come on vacation without a picture?) But look how majestic that tree is!
I was looking at the enormous Norway Maple in my backyard the other day, and a question occurred. How deep are its roots? Living as we do in the age of Google, I soon found myself reading this fascinati...
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Grace Baptist Church circa 1966
“…Thus many of us seem to be as men without a country, or as odd individualists in other fellowships. Yet we do not relish the spirit of total independency which is...
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Subtitle: “Demonstrated Herein”
The following is a republished post from my old Blogger blog. (Which makes me wonder, since I switched to WordPress five years ago, how many complete resets / reorganizations / redevelopments has Blogger been through? Fifty? Five-hundred? But I digress.)
Everybody loves...
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Many of my readers will be aware that during the last few years a theological controversy has arisen over the doctrine of divine impassibility. Impassibility is the teaching that God, being perfect and immutable, cannot be moved. The idea is expressed within many of the Reformed confessions by the assertion that God is...
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This again!
Hoo, boy! I’m getting tired of blogging on the same subject over and over, but here we go again:
I wanted to be positive about today’s episode of Mortification of Spin. Honestly, I did. Carl Trueman, Todd Pruitt, and Aimee Byrd chatted about the difficulties facing credo-baptists and paedo-baptists who...
Occam’s Razor and the Perpetuity of Evangelical Scandal
Written by exceptionnotedchantrynotes
Because dressing like a high school kid makes me soooo down to earth!
Occam’s Razor is the name given to the logical argument that the simplest theory to explain any given phenomena is likely the correct theory. Since our judgment is often obstructed, we need to shave away needless assumptions and bits of argumentation in...
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Today I’m going to ask you to imagine an entirely unlikely sequence of events. I don’t know why any of this would happen, but let us pretend that it might:
Imagine with me that you have been invited to Buckingham Palace and granted an audience with Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada,...
to Wellum’s “Progressive Covenantalism and the Doing of Ethics”
Written by exceptionnotedContrast
A 20 page paper by Stephen J. Wellum titled “Progressive Covenantalism and the Doing of Ethics” was posted in the recently [Note: it has since been removed as it was not supposed to be posted publicly]. It presents a good opportunity to bring to attention some of the important areas where 168...
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The Progressive Conundrum Personified
I’m running out of unique Thomas Sowell pictures. Onward, anyway…
The mess in the Anglican Communion demonstrates a real problem for Western Progressivism, both political and theological. One of the primary goals of all Progressivisms is escape from traditional moral...
A young Thomas Sowell, before I made him famous by stealing his column format.
The formal charges once filed against J. Gresham Machen are one illustration from history of a near-universal fact. Whenever a church or denomination divides over doctrine, the side which has rejected historic orthodoxy insists that the division had nothing...
Here’s a true story: A man I once knew traveled during his youth to Colorado with a friend who was a knowledgeable mineralogist. They stopped at a field to take in the view, and as they walked the mineralogist stooped to pick up a roundish, mud-colored rock. With great excitement he took it back to his pickup, found a tool, and...
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