Friday, May 29, 2015

Review of Presbytery Records

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Since I have posted a number of things from RPR this week, some have had questions about what we are and what we do. So here goes, in a som...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Overture 3: Parental Promises in the Baptismal Vow

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When parents in the PCA present their children for baptism, they take three vows regarding their children. The first vow recognizes the chi...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

My Concerns About a “Recreations Clause” Study Committee

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A number of years ago, I was in a presbytery meeting in which a young man was being examined for ordination. He was asked if he had any sta...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Overtures 2 and 9: The “Recreations” Clauses. North Texas and Tennessee Valley Presbyteries

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At several points in the doctrinal standards of the PCA (the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms) referen...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Overture 1: Pacific Northwest Presbytery

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In Presbyterian government, there are two possible subsets of the particular court of the church (session, presbytery, General Assembly). T...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

Overtures to the 2015 PCA General Assembly

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First, a quick explanation for those who don’t know anything about the government of the PCA. The PCA is a connectional denomination, which...
Friday, May 15, 2015

The State of the PCA

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A post with this title by Bryan Chapell ( http://byfaithonline.com/the-state-of-the-pca/ ) appeared earlier this week. A response a couple ...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

The Sin of Ham

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This comes initially from one of those pointless Facebook debates that I almost got into a few months ago, from which I was delivered at th...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

The Context and Structure of Psalm 90

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The title tells us that the psalm is a prayer of Moses, making it probably the oldest psalm in the book. But it gives us no direct evidence...
Friday, May 08, 2015

The Curious Case of Psalm 37:3, Part 2

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First, a note on the translation of the Septuagint. The last word in the verse, translated as “faithfulness” in many translations, is ‘emun...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2015

The Curious Case of Psalm 37:3

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Last Sunday morning in Sunday school, one of the verses we looked at was Psalm 37:3. I had a copy of the ESV, and my wife had a copy of the...
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Monday, May 04, 2015

The Song of Songs and the Matter of Context

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Let us suppose that the Song of Songs was never included in Scripture, that there were only 65 books in the canon. Let us further suppose t...
Friday, May 01, 2015

The Song of Songs and Ancient Near Eastern Literature

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For historical-grammatical interpretation (HGI) part pf the “historical” aspect is to seek to understand the biblical text in its historica...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Historical-Grammatical Interpretation and the Song of Songs

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In my last post, I mentioned that one reason given for rejecting the allegorical, or symbolic, interpretation of the Song is the fact that ...
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Monday, April 27, 2015

Thoughts on the Song of Songs

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Since I received a copy of the new edition of the Reformation Study Bible last week, and since I was lecturing on the Song of Songs tonight...
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Saturday, March 07, 2015

God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation, by David W. Saxton

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With regard to Christian piety, we live in the age of the judges. What constitutes Christian piety? Each defines it by what is right in his...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

When Is It My Circus?

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In response to my post yesterday, someone raised the reasonable question, “When is it my circus?” I’ll attempt to answer that with a some q...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Young Prophet Syndrome

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“During my early years, I never heard my parents speak negatively of any other church member or pastor. Later, I learned of circumstances w...
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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Perry Noble and the Ten Whatevers

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Perry Noble, for those who don’t know, is the Senior Pastor of the multi-site megachurch Newspring Church in Anderson, SC. On Christmas Eve...
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Friday, January 09, 2015

Do You Want a Singing Church?

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This post has some suggestions: http://www.theologyinworship.com/2015/01/07/12-solutions-for-a-church-that-just-wont-sing/ While I appr...