Monthly Archives: March 2010

Scott Clark Has a Point

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 16, 2010

(Or, show me your confessionalism!) In Recovering the Reformed Confession, Scott Clark argues for and understanding of the Christian ministry and piety that informed the confessions of the Reformed churches pretty much all the way down to when Boy George (Whitefield) set foot in the North American British colonies. Among the points Clark makes is… Read More→

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Unhuggable Lutherans

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 15, 2010

Garrison Keillor’s Life Among the Lutherans has arrived. It is already rewarding with merriment. Here are a few stanzas from “Lutheran Song.” I was raised in Iowa, went to Concordia, Swedish, I’m proud to say. Got a job at Lutheran Brotherhood. And I never was sick one day. Bought a house in south Minneapolis Over… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Pauline Indignation

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 12, 2010

Have you noticed lately what tends to make conservative Protestants mad? In public life we see a lot of consternation about abortion, gay marriage, the thievery of the federal government, and outrage over secularists. And let’s not forget a whole lot of anger doled out upon two-kingdom theology and the spirituality of the church. (If… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 10, 2010

Article 22: The Righteousness of Faith We believe that for us to acquire the true knowledge of this great mystery the Holy Spirit kindles in our hearts a true faith that embraces Jesus Christ, with all his merits, and makes him its own, and no longer looks for anything apart from him. For it must… Read More→

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How Evangelicals Can Prove their Environmentalist Convictions

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 9, 2010

This past Sunday my wife and I visited a Baptist church in a seaside town that fifty years ago would have been the worship option for our both sets of parents when vacationing. The half-hour of singing during the first half of the service, punctuated by insights from the pianist-minister-of-music, was not surprising. This liturgical… Read More→

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Family and Sabbath

By admin | Published: March 9, 2010

Darryl G. Hart and Camden Bucey converse about family and Sabbath through the writings of Wendell Berry. Download the audio Books by Wendell Berry What are People For? Hannah Coulter A World Lost The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry Jayber Crow Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community: Eight Essays

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Praying in Public

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 8, 2010

Since I grew up in a home where the mother passed out tracts with tips and even with fares for turnpike tolls, I will be forever scarred by an evangelical piety that was always in the “car sales” mode, always looking to make the deal. (For a particularly empathetic treatment of this piety – as… Read More→

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Some of This and More of That

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 5, 2010

Rabbi Bret explains why short of theonomy, even transformationalists like the Baylys are guilty of two-kingdom thinking: . . . the Bayly’s are victims of compartmentalized thinking. They seem to think that one can have a Constitutional objection or financial objection that isn’t at the same time a theological connection. Would someone mind introducing me… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Justification and Assurance

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 5, 2010

Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Rom. 5:1) On this verse Calvin writes: Here indeed is the chief hinge on which faith turns: that we do not regard the promises of mercy that God offers as true only outside ourselves, but not at all… Read More→

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Why the PCA Needs the Spirituality of the Church

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 4, 2010

Regular readers of Oldlife know about the imbroglio between the Brothers Bayly and those who hold two-kingdoms and the spirituality of the church. The major objection apparently is that these doctrines won’t let the church do what activists on certain moral issues want the church to do in the public square (you know, bad ju… Read More→

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