Archive for June, 2006

Can we do the fandango? Unlikely.

Friday, June 30th, 2006

I recently entered a small discussion on sovereignty/free will etc etc on Facebook, of all places, because Gareth asked me to. Anyway, because it saves me writing another article, I’m just going to whack it in here! I think it makes sense without follow-up or context.
(Yes, that analogy isn’t mine. Shh)
Anyway, here we go:
I’m going […]

Christ IS the gospel

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

“The gospel is a command to be obeyed, not a choice to be made.”
- James Spurgeon in the comments of Frank Turk’s recent tour de force on Christ as saviour. To be a saviour doesn’t mean you tell people how to save themselves - it means you go and actually actively (sovereignly, graciously, irrestibley and […]

Imputation IS justification

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

“My only hope in life or death is the righteousness of Christ”
“The only meritous cause of justification is imputation”
“I am naked without the cloak of his righteousness, I am helpless without the covering of his righteousness, I am foul in the sight of God until I have his righteousness that is imputed to me.”
“Let me […]

Clogs, blogs and a wishing well

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

“Saving Faith is not merely believing that you are forgiven. Saving faith means tasting this forgiveness as part of the way God is and experiencing it (and him!) as precious and magnificent. Saving faith looks at the horror of sin, and then looks at the holiness of God, and apprehends spiritually that God’s forgiveness is […]

A dissertation you say?

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
- Habakkuk 2:14

A confession and a lesson

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Although I have yet to finish it, I feel that I can profoundly recommend Future Grace to anyone willing to read it. God has ministered to my soul through John Piper’s careful words.
I’m going to have to be frank and discuss my sin in order to discuss what I’ve learnt. I miss Helen terribley. Not […]

Apologetics lend themselves to pompous doublespeak

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Your face is a classic example of low-Church, anti-instrumentalist, historically-discontinuous, Cartestian-Lockean-Baconian democratized American Evangelicalism’s reduction of truth and meaning to black squiggles on pieces of paper and the intellection which takes place on their basis!

More wishy washy than a wishy washy thing

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Driscoll speaks wisely on the recent Episcopalian drama. It’s folly compunding folly.
EDIT: I’m amused that since everyone is currently talking about gay female bishops, I look at the concept of a ‘gay female bishop’ and I find 3 things wrong with it. Approximately one per word. Is there anything right with it? The irony is […]

Satisified with all that God is for us in Jesus?

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

“I join the apostle Paul in praying that the eyes of our hearts would be enlightened so that we might know the surpassing greatness of his power in us who believe (Ephesians 1:18-19). That power has awakened in us, not just a desire for God to give us a happy future, but for God himself […]

Circular linkage

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Well, would you look at that!
Third link down. My 15 seconds of fame!