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I'm killing two birds with one post: commenting on the recent shootings and how Reformed Christians ought to respond and testing a possible new site for the HB. Comments are enabled on the test site. Please check it out and let me know what you think.

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Mike Brown's Basic Covenant Theology Series: Not to be missed. Part 3 of Martin Downes' interview with Sean Michael Lucas. Martin is also reading Mike Horton's latest Covenant and Salvation.

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Good stuff at Jason Stellman's De Regnis Duobus (Concerning the Two Kingdoms).

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Good news for those evangelicals and nominally Reformed folk who are thinking of going to "Rome Sweet Home:" Yesterday, the Holy Father himself promulgated a new plenary indulgence (HT: διαθηκη). "What?" you say, "I thought Rome was shamed into giving up plenary indulgences after Luther published the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517." Not so fast. "Well, surely we were to think that Rome quit this sort of thing after Vatican II." Wrong again. Rome has been issuing plenary indulgences non-stop since before the Reformation. What's an indulgence? Here's how C... [read more]

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"But another reason why so many divine acts are attributed to faith is, because other exercises are included in the description of faith, which though they always accompany it, ought not to be confounded with it. It was, two hundred years ago, a question much agitated among the divines of Holland, whether love entered into the essence of faith. And in our own country, faith and love have not been kept distinct. A very prevalent system of theology makes the essence of faith to be love. Much evil arises from confounding what are so clearly distinguished in the Word of God. If faith and love w... [read more]

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Thanks to Gary Steward for this: *** “The natural consequence of this assent, is the LOVE of the truth thus known and acknowledged. This is the third act of faith, and of this the Apostle speaks when he says; “They received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.” Since the saving truths of the Gospel afford a bright manifestation of the glory of God, as not only his veracity in his testimony, but also his wisdom, holiness, righteousness, goodness, power, and other divine perfections, shine forth in them,—the believing soul, contemplating these amiable perfections of t... [read more]

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Since the 1970s the Norman Shepherd and his followers have argued that faith justifies because is it not alone. They reject the notion that sanctity is nothing but the fruit of justification. The funny thing is that Zacharias Ursinus, the primary author of the Heidelberg Catechism addressed this position explicitly. Thanks to Brad Lindvall for sending this. *** Objection 4: Faith does not justify without that which is required in those who are justified. Good works are required in those who are justified. Therefore, faith is not without good works, and so does not justify alone. An... [read more]

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