18 Oct 2019
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Earlier this year, an article at TGC Australia started a controversy over the question of the temptations and impeccability of Christ. In the article, Ed Shaw wrote, "I’m wanting the young people who come to this event to know that Jesus is the one person that they can fully trust with their sexualities,...
Read more → 15 Oct 2019
Posted by Mark Jones 
Ever since the Protestant Reformation, the role of good works in salvation has been a topic the Reformed were keen to address in detail in order to guard against attacks from those outside of the tradition who accused them of abandoning the necessity of good works in the life of believers. As such, in the Early...
Read more → 14 Oct 2019
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
In Q/A 25 of the Geneva Catechism, commenting on the Apostles’ Creed, John Calvin strikes the note (for the children!) of the majority of the Christian tradition, given great emphasis by, e.g., Gregory of Nazianzus: God’s essence is unknowable to us and incomprehensible. We therefore know him from...
Read more → 11 Oct 2019
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
After a little delay, we're back with the next section of the First Catechism in Latin. These questions treat the definition of sin and the Fall. As always, please feel free to do with these as you like. Quaestiones XXX-XXXV xxxi. Quid significat illud “transgressio”? Facere quae mihi interdicit...
Read more → 10 Oct 2019
Posted by Mark Jones 
Many of us have come to see the reality of something called “Big Eva” and the way in which it seems to shape much of our modern church culture. You might think this is mostly a problem for Baptist and broader Evangelical churches, but something very much like it can be present in Reformed Church...
Read more → 08 Oct 2019
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
Justification at its most basic is straightforward. A man recognizes that he is a sinner. He judges himself to be guilty for his sin before God. He looks for a source whence he can obtain the righteousness he does not possess. He finds it offered to him in the gospel of Jesus Christ. He trusts in Christ,...
Read more → 07 Oct 2019
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
Next five questions below, about the Covenant of Life and sin. Quaestiones XXVI-XXX xxvi. Quid promisit Deus in foedere vitae? Se Adam vita donaturum esse, si Deo perfecte pareret. xxvii. Quid minatus est Deus in foedere vitae? Se Adam morte puniturum esse, si Deo non pareret. xxviii. Tenuitne...
Read more → 03 Oct 2019
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
The next five in our ongoing series, on creation and the covenant of life... Quaestiones XXI-XXV xxi. Quomodo cognoscis animum vitam in aeternum esse acturum? Quod Scripturae sanctae mihi hoc docent. xxii. In quo statu Adam Hevamque constituit Deus? Deus eos in sanctitatis et beatitudinis statu...
Read more → 02 Oct 2019
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
Today we continue on with the next five questions of the First Catechism translated into Latin, which concern the creation of Adam and Eve. Quaestiones XVI-XX xvi. Qui erant primi nostri parentes? Adam et Heva. xvii. Qualem hominem creavit Deus? Deus hominem creavit masculum et feminam, iuxta imaginem...
Read more → 01 Oct 2019
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
Yesterday I posted the first 10 questions of the First Catechism in Latin. Today we're back with the next five. xi. Potesne Deum videre? Deum videre non possum, sed Deus me videt semper. xii. Scitne Deus omnia? Deus omnia scit, et nihil ei latet. xiii. Potestne facere omnia Deus? Deus totam voluntatem...
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