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Where’s Waldo Wednesday: Dazed and Confused

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 17, 2011

Why is it that discussions of the law and sanctification invariably circle back to union with Christ? My own hunch, expressed several times, is that union becomes the way to cement sanctification to justification, especially if neither is prior to the other but union precedes both. This way, supposedly, Protestants can look Roman Catholics straight… Read More→

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Hard or Soft, The Anti-2K Position Displays the Judaic Folly

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

(Or, how to blow Dr. Ortlund’s mind.) The hits keep coming. The line grows of people wanting to take a swipe at the two kingdom doctrine (while the silence on Lillback’s strange fire of Sacred Fire is deafening). A while back, Comment magazine published a piece by David Koyzis that critiques the 2k position, and… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Murray on the Gospel

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

“Him who knew no sin he made to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him” (2 Cor 5:21). This clearly points us to the vicarious sin bearing of Christ as that which brought the reconciliation into being. This forensic character of the reconciliation is also borne out in… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 7, 2010

Chapter 13 – Of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, of the Promises, and of the Spirit and Letter The Ancients Had Evangelical Promises. The Gospel, is indeed, opposed to the law. For the law works wrath and announces a curse, whereas the Gospel preaches grace and blessing. John says: “For the law was given through… 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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