In volume 2 of Arnold Dallimore’s George Whitefield biography, Dallimore describes Whitefield’s interactions with Scottish Presbyterians. In regard to the way in which these Scottish Presbyterians received the Lord’s Supper, Dallimore quotes this...
On July 29, 2012, I had the privilege of baptizing my infant daughter, Evelyn Christine. I have not always believed in infant baptism, but I only came to understand why we baptize infants about six years ago. Ever since then, I have been looking forward to the day...
A couple of weeks ago on Kevin DeYoung’s blog, Josh Blunt wrote four guest posts that I thoroughly appreciated. Blunt describes the journey his own church plant took from being an attractional church (“metro”) to becoming a church marked by...
This post is a continuation of On the Efficacy of the Sacraments and Word, Spirit, and Dry Bones, in which I have been trying to get my head around the differences between Lutheran and Reformed understandings of the relationship between the Holy Spirit, the Word of...
I have been studying up on the sacraments for ordination exams, and, in Charles Hodge’s Systematic Theology, I came across an interesting contrast between how Lutheran and Reformed Christians understand the efficacy of the sacraments that I did not previously...