Luther and Natural Law? What hath the Reformer to do with Aquinas?

In his recent book, Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things, J. Daryl Charles notes:
“It should be emphasized that Luther is perfectly content to allow the natural law and righteousness that comes by faith to stand side by side. The Protestant Reformers as a whole did not perceive general revelation to be [...]

Mach 2 Never Sounded So Good, and Theologically Solid

I did a speed read of J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism yesterday and found 2 quotes so far that I couldn’t let you go another day without mulling over. Add Machen to your list of Theological Studs…
“If Christ provides only a part of our salvation, leaving us to provide the rest, then we are [...]

The Work of the Law

Because I’ve done a poor job of keeping up with the “Law’n Gospel” part of the blog recently, I wanted to post this poem I wrote a couples of years ago after meditating on Romans 3 and the work of the Law in bringing a child of God unto repentance. I dedicate it to my [...]

Heaven Taken By Storm

Along with the stack of other books that I’m reading this semester for class, I just started reading a book by Thomas Watson (apart from class) entitled “Heaven Taken By Storm: Showing the Holy Violence A Christian is to Put Forth in the Pursuit After Glory”. In chapter one, I found a perfect example of [...]

A Theological Stud…In The Household Of Faith

I like that term “theological stud”. It’s how I like to describe men that seem (to me at least) to be earnestly seeking after God, and have, at one time or another, influenced me to praise and honor the Lord Jesus Christ. But more than the manly connotation that it gives, it also references the [...]

National Politics, Galatians 3:3, and Where the Moral Majority was Right

When the Apostle Paul wrote these words to the church in Galatia, I’ll admit that he did not have national politics in immediate view: “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” But for American politics, the implications could not be clearer. Like the legalists in [...]

2007 in Review: Finding Grace With Law(n) Gospel

“The law says, Do, and life you’ll win;
But grace says, Live, for all is done;
The former cannot ease my grief,
The latter yields me full relief.”
The law excludes not boasting vain,
But rather feeds it to my bane;
But gospel grace allows no boasts,
Save in the King, the Lord of Hosts.“

 
There are many things [...]

A Modernist Gets a Poetic Back-Hand to the Hypothetical Face

I really like my friends.
God has saw too it that I have been surrounded by a group men and women who love Him, have a deep love for His Truth, and often times have a literary gift to put that relationship into words.
If you didn’t follow that too well, don’t worry, just enjoy the following [...]

Old School Sproul

Here’s a throwback video of R.C. Sproul talking about what happened to our sin if we are “in Christ”, and how we got our righteousness…

(HT: Heart of Flesh)

Linking Up on the Front Lawn

Blogspotting and trotting: for your enjoyment and reading pleasure…

Is Abortion a Theological Issue? Garry Wills Says No: Albert Mohler.com

Obama plays his trump card: Centurion

Blood on the Book: Tim Challies

To Baldly Go: Carl Trueman

Wanted: Luthers & Calvins: The Thirsty Theologian

MacArthur on The Sin of NOT Fighting For The Truth: Oldtruth.com

Solomon Given Boot from Hip Church Conference: [...]