The following post was originally published here on reformation21. It is difficult to argue against the claim that Princeton Theological Seminary of Princeton, New Jersey occupied a—if not the—principal position of influence in shaping American Reformed Christianity in the nineteenth century. The years between its founding in 1812 and the resignation of Dr. J. Gresham Machen […]
The Law of God as a Civilizational Guardrail
The following post was originally published here on the Place for Truth – Theology for Everyone blog by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Note that it is the third in a three-part, multi-author series on the Law of God. God’s law reveals God’s character. By it, we know Him and know what it means to […]
Of Jesus & Job
The following post was originally published here on the Place for Truth – Theology for Everyone blog by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Christ’s cry from the olive press in Gethsemane has a strikingly similar resonance to Job’s anguished complaint from the ash heap of Uz. The resemblances have led some commentators to identify Job […]
The Essential Law of the Vineyard
The following article was originally published on the Place for Truth blog at placefortruth.org. The metaphor of God’s kingdom as a vineyard is one that has Old Testament vintage, which is appropriate when talking about a vineyard. Long before Christ’s first advent, the prophet Isaiah described the Kingdom of Judah as a vineyard well-supplied to […]
Great Men of Meekness
The following article was originally published on the Reforming Men blog at reformingmen.com. I have a story to tell about what it means to be a man. Here it goes. Some years ago, while sitting in a diner in Media, Pennsylvania at a weekly Bible study with a dozen or so older men, I heard one […]
The Order of Salvation: Regeneration
The following article was originally published on the Place for Truth blog of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals at placefortruth.org. Do you remember the moment when the Spirit of God effected your regeneration? Can you pinpoint the instant in which you were “born again” (1 Ptr. 1:3, 23)? You have probably heard testimonies describing a sudden […]
