Monthly Archives: March 2010

What Prepared Machen to Fight?

By The Staff | Published: March 30, 2010

Darryl G. Hart continues his course on J. Gresham Machen at Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Glenside, PA.  Hart explore several key aspects to Machen’s family and early life. Download

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The Bible and the Politics of Sex

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 29, 2010

Discussions about the relative value of special (i.e. the Bible) or general revelation (e.g. natural law) for politics and society often bog down on the politics of sex. What about abortion? It is a heinous practice that cannot be outlawed on as flimsy a basis as natural law or private conscience. What about gay marriage?… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Antinomianism, False and True

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 26, 2010

One of the more arresting claims in recent theological discussions is that an emphasis on the forensic nature of justification can nurture antinomianism. This claim looks amazingly unreal given the traction that various forms of transformationalism have among conservative Reformed Protestants – from Doug Wilson’s defense of Constantinianism, the Baylys’ war with Reformed “pacifists” in… Read More→

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Where to Put What We Sing

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 25, 2010

Hymnals are something that Presbyterians take for granted. Rare is the lay person who picks up the book to examine it like any other, looking say at the table of contents, then at some of the indexes, and then at one or two hymns to see which tune the compilers used for a certain text.… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 24, 2010

18. We believe that all our justification rests upon the remission of our sins, in which also is our only blessedness, as saith the Psalmist (Psa. xxxii. 2). We therefore reject all other means of justification before God, and without claiming any virtue or merit, we rest simply in the obedience of Jesus Christ, which… Read More→

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Fighter of the Good Fight

By Camden Bucey | Published: March 24, 2010

Darryl G. Hart begins a new course on J. Gresham Machen at Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Glenside, PA. Download

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Bracketology

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 22, 2010

During a recent trip to Wheaton College for a conference on evangelicals and the early church I talked to several faculty about president-elect, Phil Ryken. Everyone was favorably unanimous about his initial remarks to the faculty regarding his plans for leading the institution. Some still wondered, though, whether Ryken will escalate the Reformed influences at… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: More Machen

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 19, 2010

Very different is the conception of faith which prevails in the liberal Church. According to modern liberalism, faith is essentially the same as “making Christ Master” in one’s life; at least it is by making Christ Master in the life that the welfare of men is sought. But that simply means that salvation is thought… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 17, 2010

This is a true apostolic saying: What he elsewhere referred to as: “Baptised into Christ’s death and buried with Him in baptism,” he here describes as “planted together into the likeness of His death.” Thus he binds and knits together Christ’s death and resurrection and our baptism, in order that baptism should not be thought… Read More→

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Hug Me, I’m Protestant

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 17, 2010

A word to the wise Old Lifer who may be out celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Don’t! It’s an Irish festivity for a Roman Catholic Saint. You’re Protestant. Just stick to Sundays, Mother’s and Father’s Days, and July 4th. But if you do go out to make up for the Roman Catholics who gave up whiskey… Read More→

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