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God's Two Kingdoms and the Public Square 22 May 2012 | 02:31 am
I'm currently reading David VanDrunnen's scholarly book, Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms (Eerdman's, 2009). It effectively demolishes the neo-Calvinist claim that the doctrine of natural law and its ...
Brian Schwertley Vindicates My Thesis in Judicial Warfare 24 Feb 2011 | 11:23 am
In his latest lecture on the subject of Christian Reconstructionism and the Federal Vision, Brian Schwertley has not only followed much of my line of thought in the 2009 edition of Judicial Warfare (a...
An Excellent Source For Christian Apologetics 17 Feb 2011 | 05:07 am
I recently found the Giving An Answer website to be an excellent source for Christian apologetics. They have a lot of good information on cults and world religions, with conversations with various exp...
A Brief Response to Steve C. Halbrook's Defense of Daniel F.N. Ritchie 23 Oct 2010 | 06:28 am
Stephen Halbrook recently posted a video on YouTube in which he attempted to defend Daniel F.N. Ritchie from the charge of covenantal nomism. While denying that Ritchie is teaching "justification on a...
God, the Only Source of Happiness For the Soul 9 Sep 2010 | 12:33 pm
The soul of man has a natural desire of happiness: nothing can make it happy but what is commensurable to its desires, or capable of affording it a full satisfaction. Nothing less than an infinite goo...
The Secret Cause of Atheism 9 Sep 2010 | 03:06 am
...[B]efore a man believe God's love to him in Christ, though he may have a kind of love to God, as He is his Creator and Preserver, and gives him many good things for this present life, yet if God do...
Glenn Beck, Mormonism, and Islam 3 Sep 2010 | 12:44 am
Worldview Radio recently discussed Glenn Beck, and the similarities between his Mormon religion and Mohammed's Islam.
Paul and Covenantal Nomism 30 Aug 2010 | 09:26 am
Michael S. Horton writes an insightful piece on the heresy of covenantal nomism, which tries to avoid the charge of legalism by teaching that one enters the covenant by grace alone. Of course, that is...
Avoiding the Extremes of Antinomianism and Legalism 15 Aug 2010 | 01:27 am
The law as a rule of life steers a middle course between antinomianism and legalism. Neither antinomianism nor legalism are true to the law or the gospel. Antinomianism stresses freedom from the law's...
Sanctification is By Faith, Not Law-Keeping 3 Aug 2010 | 07:33 am
One great mystery is, that the holy frame and disposition, whereby our souls are furnished and enabled for immediate practice of the law, must be obtained “by receiving it out of Christ’s fulness,” as...