Category: Reformed Tradition
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A Topical Outline of the Westminster Confession
Ligon Duncan, one of my former professors at Reformed Theological Seminary, now president of RTS, has developed A Topical Outline of the Westminster Confession of Faith. I have found this to be a helpful tool for surveying the doctrines of the Christian Faith. 1. Holy Scripture1.1 The necessity of Scripture1.2 The contents of Scripture (positively…
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Symbol of a New Day Dawning
From time to time I am asked why I have a rooster for a profile picture, both on my blog and on Facebook. What’s more, the rooster is also the screensaver on my phone. I use these images for more reason than just the bucolic tranquility they depict. The rooster has a long history as…
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Inebriated by the Gospel
Great grace laced imagery from Robert Capon: The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievilism, a whole cellarful of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred-proof grace – of bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God…
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You Might Be Reformed If…
As one who dwells firmly within the Reformed wing of Evangelical Christianity, I found the following to be astute, accurate, and a little bit amusing: You might be Reformed … If you think prayer is more than just trying to manipulate God into giving you what you want … If you think that there are…
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Uneasy ‘Calvinist’
I feel no little uneasiness when labeled a Calvinist. It is not that the description is unfitting. Nor is it because I have any disaffection for Calvin. Quite the contrary. My reservation is that there is much baggage that accompanies that label – baggage assigned by those who reject the tenants of the Faith associated…
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Here I Stand
Today being Reformation Sunday, the day on the ecclesiastical calender commemorating the anniversary of Martin Luther posting his 95 Theses on the doors of the church at Wittenburg, which inadvertantly set into motion a radical transformation of both the church and Western Culture, I thought it might be appropriate to review the roots of what…
