Monthly Archives: August 2010

Now He’s Channeling Glen

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 31, 2010

Not Glen Beck but Uncle Glen, that is. Carl Trueman is on a roll and a recent post gives his objections to celebrity pastors. A friend told Trueman about an inquirer who came to him with a doctrinal question because the inquirer’s own pastor was too busy on the speaking circuit to meet with his… Read More→

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What’s A Lay Person To Do?

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 31, 2010

One of the problems that Protestantism addressed at the beginning of the sixteenth century was the gap between monastic piety and the lives of ordinary Christians. The expectations in the Roman church were for the laity, without the support or environment of a monastic order, to maintain levels of holiness that monks and clergy supposedly… Read More→

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Desert Island Texts

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 27, 2010

I recently heard a sermon that included the point about the value of biblical memorization. Along with it came the warning about what would happen if we found ourselves in a situation without access to the Bible. If believers do not hide the word in their hearts, the logic goes, they will not have any… Read More→

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Putting the TR in Trueman

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

Carl Trueman’s comments on Dinesh D’Souza appointment as president of King’s College have prompted further discussion. In a post that responds to the charge that Trueman was guilty of applying seminary standards to a liberal arts college, the Lord Protector of WTS explains that the real confusion is on the other side — namely, promoting… Read More→

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Two Kingdom Tuesday: No Confusion, No Massacre

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

August 24 is the anniversary of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, a time when in 1572 the hostilities between Roman Catholics and Huguenots reached historic proportions. Thousands of Protestants lost their lives in a string of anti-Reformed riots, aimed a eliminating the “heretics.” According to Philip Benedict, the Massacre marked a turning point in the… Read More→

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Joining the Club?

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 21, 2010

“Trey” may think that Carl Trueman puts it more graciously than we have, but the Lord Protector of Westminster Seminary has another stellar post about the significance of The King’s College’s new president, a Roman Catholic, Dinesh D’Souza. Trueman writes (but the entire post is worth reading): OK. So evangelicalism writ large verges on the… Read More→

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Whither Muslims In Doug Wilson’s American Christendom?

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 20, 2010

The Kuyper of Idaho (you know, pastor, college founder, magazine editor, culture warrior – so far, no prime ministry) has spoken on the proposed mosque in New York City near Ground Zero. As complicated as the issue is, because of the delicate balance between legal freedoms and democratic politeness, Wilson has used the occasion to… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday: Cornering the Market on Suffering

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 18, 2010

During interactions with advocates of union with Christ I have frequently heard remarks that suggest this doctrine takes account of the believer’s suffering in breathtaking ways. In fact, union is apparently so effective in accounting for the miseries of this life that it needs to be a regular part of counsel and preaching to Christians.… Read More→

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And the Winner of the Reformed Militant of the Week Is. . .

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 18, 2010

Carl Trueman (given his regard for boxing he may not mind the photo). First, he weighed in on the recent trend to polemicize against Reformed Protestants who engage in polemics. Trueman wrote: So, please, let’s bin this sad, misguided self-loathing on the polemic front. We must repent where necessary, where we have crossed the line;… Read More→

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Two-Kingdom Tuesday: More Spiritual (and Less Corinthian) than Thou

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

Contemporary Reformed Protestants are divided on their reading of the Reformation. The 2k advocates find in Calvin and others precedent for the spirituality of the church, that is, the idea that the kingdom of Christ is not to be identified with the state or the civil order but with the visible church which possesses the… Read More→

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