Hiscox’s definition of a Christian church

from Edward T. Hiscox’s Principles and Practices for Baptist Churches (Judson Press, 1984; repr., Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1980), 20.
“A Christian Church is a company of regenerate persons, baptized on a profession of faith in Christ; united in covenant for worship, instruction, the observance of Christian ordinances, and fo such service as the gospel requires; recognizing [...]

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Motivation to throw out your television

from Jonathan Edwards’ sermon The Christian Pilgrim, which I dare say is singly better than the sum total of evangelical ink spilled in the last fifteen years. You would do well to read it.
Labor to obtain such a disposition of mind that you may choose heaven for your inheritance and home, and may earnestly long [...]

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John Piper on the Arminians being logic-driven

Although desiringgod.org has a great selection of John Piper’s resources, Monergism fills the void by offering many additional audio resources you cannot find at Piper’s own site, including his biographical sketches, Hebrews sermons, his series on fasting, and several other series.
I have been listening to his series on TULIP, and thought that this bit was [...]

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“If I could shut the Gate”

I found this anonymous poem in The Oxford Book of Christian Verse edited by Lord David Cecil (London: Oxford University Press, 1940).
‘If I Could Shut the Gate’
If I could shut the gate against my thoughts
And keep out sorrow from this room within,
Or memory could cancel all the notes
Of my misdeeds, and I unthink my sin:
How [...]

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Darryl Hart on the Regulative Principle

Joel emailed me the link to this article about a month ago, and I used it as I was studying to write my post “Religious Movies and Regulative Principle.” To give you an idea of John Frame’s idea of the “Regulative Principle,” he allows for liturgical dance and skits. Darryl Hart is a Presbyterian. You [...]

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Is George W. Bush a conservative?

If you think so, you should listen to this.

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On the use of Scripture in application

I wrote this comment over at Scott Aniol’s blog Kara Ministries Weblog, and, after seeing it was nearly a blog post in and of itself, thought I would revise it a bit and post it here. You can find the original thread here.
I believe that every “application” of a Biblical principle is built upon some [...]

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Something else to buy at Half-Price Books 10 years from now

When I saw the Oxford Scofield Bible with the NIV, I scratched my head. Somehow I felt that Oxford did not know who their target audience was.
Alas, the puzzlement continues. Now you can be a “young fundamentalist” dispensationalist and have it in the hip “young fundamentalist” Bible, too.
It’s a kind of “Old school-New school” hip [...]

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Darryl Hart on P&W (contra John Frame)

Darryl Hart argued this in early 1998. The whole piece can be found here. When reading this, it boggles when one considers how much the Christian mainstream has moved in eight short years.
“Diane West in an article for The Weekly Standard wrote about the trend of political conservatives who attempt to show that they are [...]

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I love Antonin Scalia

The first part of the session by Antonin Scalia on Outsourcing American Law is an excellent lecture. Then the session gets even better when he starts getting questions from the products of the American public school system.

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Mark Noll on hymns and evangelicalism

The following lecture by Mark Noll is pretty informative. I think he goes a bit overboard in trying to help us understand the reception of hymns (over psalms) in early evangelical worship, but the lecture is interesting nonetheless. I am going to refrain from commenting on Noll’s singing.
The Crucial Role of Hymns in Evangelical History

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W. B. Johnson (1792-1863) on reading the New Testament

from “The Gospel Developed” in Polity: Biblical Arguments on How to Conduct Church Life: A Collection of Historic Baptist Documents
“The New Testament is comparatively a small book, and can be deliberately read through in two days’ continuous reading. It will be practicable, then, to read this book through once a month with care, so that [...]

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Religious movies and the regulative principle

We are nearly finished now. I have been discussing the presumption that movies (or drama, by inference) should be used for evangelistic ends. I know I have been testing the patience of my readers with this, but I try not to get caught up in the time-defying fury of blogging. Your patience has been appreciated. [...]

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paleoevangelical: Dever on Entertainment and Church Dramas

paleoevangelical: Dever on Entertainment and Church Dramas
This is more of the same. I do enjoy having people like Mark Dever on my side.

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