As you may gather when you read this blog, I am unashamedly Reformed in my theology. I fully affirm the teaching of the Second London Baptist Confession, commonly called the 1689 Baptist Confession and its five main areas of assent with classic Christian theology (you can listen to Greg Nichols’ fine lecture on this subject, [...]

As a confessing Reformed Baptist, I fully affirm its teaching regarding the three use of the laws. The Reformer Reader explains what the three uses are: When the Reformed and Lutheran scholastics talked about God’s moral law (lex moralis), they taught that there are three basic uses of the law (usus legis).  They are: 1) [...]

Just some thoughts…

Well, July 10, 2009 came and went. 500 years and 1 day  ago, Calvin was born and little did his parents know that his birth was usher in one of the finest theologians in the history of the Christian Church. Love or loathe him, no one can deny the influence that John Calvin has had [...]

I will be serialising this rather lengthy article. Here is Part 1 of this series. There is an issue which has always bothered since I embraced the Doctrines of Grace almost two years ago (August 18 to be exact). Occasionally I have touched on it but it always felt as a theoretical problem, rather than [...]

As part of my extended series on posts on Rediscovering Biblical Christianity, I revised an article I wrote at the request of my buddy S.O. about not wasting your brain and the importance of cultivating a robust theology for Christian living (some these days *cough – Emergents* will tell it’s not possible but I beg [...]

That’s right – the second edition of the Potter’s Freedom has dropped!!! (Insert wild cheers here). I’ve been madly waiting for this to drop and now it has. I gave away my copy of the first edition, so I will bide my time and get the second edition eventually. However, if you have the money [...]

Kicking off a short series on “Rediscovering Biblical Christianity” with a look at some of the bunk going on in “Christianity”

(I read this article at Pulpit Pimps, blogging home of Melvin Jones, and figured I had to share it with the peeps. Quickly, the Theology 101 series proper will begin next Tuesday, looking at the term “the Word of God”.) For those of you who recognize this as a take off on a portrait of [...]

My friend Rev. Angus Stewart of Covenant Protestant Refomed Church over in Ballymena, N. Ireland was part of a discussion with Rev. Timothy Ramsay of Word of Faith International Christian Centre on the Doctrines of Grace. You can check out Rev. Stewart’s ministry by clicking here.