Category Archives: Piety without Exuberance

What Bible Are Neo-Calvinists Reading?

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Is this the tone or posture that characterizes those Reformed Protestants who insist that the only genuine Christianity is the one that is fully engaged with this world, 24/7? For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands,… Read More→

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What I’m (all about ME!) Sayin’

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While looking through the blogs today I came across a couple worthy of highlight. In keeping with the theme of the realities of contemporary Roman Catholicism, Samuel Gregg’s piece on Vatican II and modernity might be of interest (especially to CTCer’s who whitewash dilemmas from church history). He seconds a point I often make that… Read More→

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Hodge on Revival

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Our friend from Iowa reminds us that Charles Hodge was not a sucker for the experience of Phebe Bartlet. . . . The men who, either from their character or circumstances, are led to take the most prominent part, during such seasons of excitement, are themselves often carried to extremes, or are so connected with… Read More→

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I Loved “The Artist” because Jesus Made It

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Well, technically, Jesus was not the director, producer, or screen writer. But he is the creator of all things and he did produce the remarkably clever creators of “The Artist.” It is particularly good at evoking the early period of Hollywood — the time of the silents — and how radical the shift was to… Read More→

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In A Framean State of Mind (which does not involve a w— v—)

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‘Tis the season of staying in by the fire and watching movies to recover from piles of blue books. And since John Frame has written a steady stream of movie reviews (which I found recently while gearing up for some e-sparring), I figure I might as well weigh in with my own (all about me)… Read More→

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Angelo Cataldi Should Have Done More

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It took almost three hours this morning for Angelo to bring up Penn State. That is how bad the Eagles were yesterday, though sabbatarian that I am I did not see the poor performance — look at how pious I am (all about me)!! That left Angelo to pile on another football coach — Andy… Read More→

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Why You Won’t Find Jesus On Facebook

For those who prefer personal embodiment to an on-line presence as the means for maintaining friendship, Facebook has no real appeal. This doesn’t necessarily make non-Facebook users better people but it may make for better friendship since the real me is more of me than the virtual me. (Of course, the real me could always… Read More→

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Sometimes the Prayer Book Just Makes Sense (sorry for having the word “just” so close to the thought of praying)

For those who resist watching videos like the one posted earlier today from “King of the Hill,” here is the text of Bobby’s prayer, which is a brilliant illustration of the enormity that happens when trying to put sober truths into vulgar words. I want to give a shout out to the man that makes… Read More→

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Luther Answers the Question

Such justification is hidden not only from reason and the world but also from the saints. For it is not a thought, word, or work in us, but it is quite outside and above us, for it is Christ’s going to the Father, which means His suffering, Resurrection, and Ascension. And this does not take… Read More→

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Nevin: Why Revivals Aren’t the Answer

This is an account of Nevin’s experience as an undergraduate at Union College. It shows what happens to children of the covenant, away at college, when confronted with the modern revival system. And this was only 1819. Yikes! Being of what is called Scotch-Irish extraction, I was by birth and blood also, a Presbyterian; and… Read More→

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