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Sin Willfully – Lose Your Salvation Part II
Last month I posted Part I of a two part post (see here) on eternal security. I have been finding it difficult to motivate myself to complete the second post for which I apologize. So without making...
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Civil Government, a Divine Ordinance Part I
This past week I stumbled upon the text of a sermon delivered in 1864 by Pastor George Dana Boardman of the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia. It is titled “Civil Government, a Divine Ordinance” and...
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Civil Government, a Divine Ordinance Part II
Last week I began reproducing a sermon given by Pastor George Dana Boardman just prior to the 1864 presidential election (please see Civil Government, a Divine Ordinance Part I). I like studying the...
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Civil Government, a Divine Ordinance Part III
This week I am continuing to reprint a sermon made by Pastor George Dana Boardman just prior to the presidential election in 1864 (see Part I here and Part II here). In this excerpt Rev. Boardman makes...
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Civil Government, a Divine Ordinance Part IV
This week I am continuing to reprint a sermon made by Pastor George Dana Boardman just prior to the presidential election in 1864 (see Part I here, Part II here, and Part III here). The section I have...
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Civil Government, a Divine Ordinance Part V
This week will be my fifth and final installment reproducing Pastor George Dana Boardman’s sermon on civil government just prior to the presidential election in 1864 (see Part I here, Part II here,...
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Cornelius Van Til and Charlie Clough’s Bible Framework Course
It is my conviction that there are issues with Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional approach to apologetics which Dispensationalists in particular are not generally aware of. Through Charlie Clough’s...
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Thoughts on Prayer
As those of you who are regular readers of this blog are probably aware, I grew up in a home where we listened to the Bible studies of R.B. Thieme, Jr. (aka Colonel Thieme) on a daily basis. I believe...
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Defining Free Will
I apologize for not having posted lately. I haven’t abandoned the blog but have decided to take it easy for a while until I build up some enthusiasm for writing again. Last year I wrote some posts...
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Christianity, Soul Liberty, and the American Experiment
Earlier this year I purchased a copy of “Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty” by John M. Barry and I am very glad I did. In my lifetime there...
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Digging Deeper Into Van Til and His Apologetic
As the handful of persons who follow my blog know, I have taken most of the last nine months off from blogging. I came to a point where there wasn’t anything I had to say that seemed interesting or...
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Dr. Van Til or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Plato’s Cave
When I wrote the post “Cornelius Van Til and Charlie Clough’s Bible Framework Course” last year I chronicled my discovery of, and my final rejection of, Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional...
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Augustine and Plato
When I wrote “Digging Deeper Into Van Til and His Apologetic” a while back I commented that Plato had a huge influence on Augustine of Hippo who in turn had a huge influence on John Calvin. As I have...
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John Calvin and Augustine of Hippo
In last week’s post “Augustine and Plato” I tried to show linkage between Plato’s theory of Forms and Augustine of Hippo’s reasoning. I probably failed miserably at that but this is the kind of thing...
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The Westminster Confession of Faith and Persecution
In my last post “John Calvin and Augustine of Hippo” I provided some background information on the large influence that Augustine of Hippo, the Christian-Platonist theologian, had on John Calvin. The...
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Samuel Rutherford on Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience
Over the last few weeks I have been writing a series of articles about the roots of modern Calvinism. (see last week’s article: The Westminster Confession of Faith and Persecution). All of this is...
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What Does Cornelius Van Til Know?
I have slowly been building up to an examination of Cornelius Van Til and his system of presuppositional apologetics. I was introduced to Van Til’s presuppositional apologetics (VTPA) over seven years...
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Cornelius Van Til: A Reformed Witness
In today’s post I begin a series of excerpts from Dr. Van Til’s writing. As I have tried to show, Dr. Van Til stands at the end of an intellectual line that begins with Plato who heavily influenced...
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Van Til and the Problem of Evil
I have been mulling over my next post about Cornelius Van Til’s apologetic for weeks now. While studying Van Til’s writings I found a short two paragraph statement of his regarding evil that is...
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Van Til’s Summary of His Apologetics Written for the Layman
This is a post I have been agonizing over for quite some time. Cornelius Van Til is difficult to read so publicizing his explanation of his apologetics written for the layman should be very helpful to...
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