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Tuesday Talk on Purity

06.05.2010 · Posted in Theology Online

I recently received from Crossway what promises to be a great title from Lydia Brownback, Purity: A Godly Woman’s Adornment. Starting this past Tuesday (my apologies for not getting this out before the first one), Lydia will be conducting an online discussion everyweek based upon her book. Here is a description of what will be ...

Notable Quote: James Motgomery Boice

06.05.2010 · Posted in Theology Online

James Motgomery Boice on the impact of the virgin birth upon one’s worldview . . . The virgin birth is important in regard to our world view. When I speak of a world view, I mean a total world philosophy. The most important issue in philosophy is whether we are living in a closed universe ...

Today in Church History: Old School-New School Division

06.05.2010 · Posted in Theology Online

On June 5, 1837, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. separated into Old School and New School divisions. The split involved a series of issues related to theology, polity, and social reform (especially debate on the Presbyterian response to slavery). The Old School consisted of doctrinal conservatives mainly in the Mid-Atlantic states and the South; ...

Think So’s

06.05.2010 · Posted in Theology Online

It is a dangerous thing to stray from the sure foundation of God’s Word. To proceed on one’s own course without a divine warrant is to act without faith, which is sin (Rom. 14.23), because faith is grounded not upon and good intentions and guesses and wishful thinking but upon the Word of the Lord. ...

Pounds and Ounces

06.05.2010 · Posted in Theology Online

Henry Carey, in a play with the most memorable title of The Tragedy of Chrononhotonthologos: The Most Tragical Tragedy that ever was Tragediz’d by any Company of Tragedians (1734), wrote a bit of carnal wisdom: One ounce of mirth, is worth a pound of sorrow. Earlier, Richard Baxter in his Treatise of Self-Denial (1660), in ...