Today I want to encourage you to read Lane’s excellent post at Green Baggins where he demonstrates clearly and decisively that Doug Wilson and the Federal Vision deny justification by faith alone. You can also listen to Lane discussing the same issue in the most recent Heidelcast. If you want further explanation of these points, [...]
Archive for March 2010
Lane at Green Baggins: Wilson Denies Sola Fide
Monday, March 29, 2010If You Enjoy the Heidelberg Catechism, then You’ll Love this Book
Friday, March 26, 2010Certainly one of the great classics of the Reformation is the Heidelberg Catechism, written by Caspar Olevianus and Zacharias Ursinus. Its warm, devotional application of the doctrine of the Protestant Reformation has encouraged believing hearts for centuries. If you are a lover of the Heidelberg Catechism, then I’m confident that you will enjoy the 2nd [...]
Baptism in the Westminster Standards vs. The Federal Vision (Part 2)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010Phil Derksen, a member of Black Hills Community Church, in Rapid City, SD (PCA, Presbytery of the Siouxlands), has written this excellent series of articles on the Federal Vision’s misreading of the Westminster Standards. Phil demonstrates that the context of the document itself and the writings of the authors of the Westminster Standards demonstrate clearly [...]
Baptism in the Westminster Standards vs. The Federal Vision (Part 1)
Monday, March 15, 2010Phil Derksen, a member of Black Hills Community Church, in Rapid City, SD (PCA, Presbytery of the Siouxlands), has written this excellent series of articles on the Federal Vision’s misreading of the Westminster Standards. Phil demonstrates that the context of the document itself and the writings of the authors of the Westminster Standards demonstrate clearly [...]
Ritualism the Road to Rome – Schneck on how Mercersburg led to Rome [Updated 3/12/10 at 11:54 MST]
Thursday, March 11, 2010Introduction to the Article by Wes White Ritualism always leads back to the King of Ritualists, the Pope. You can see that today in the Anglo-Catholic Churches who are returning to Rome under the leadership of Pope Benedict. The same is true of Federal Visionists. Scott Hahn, one of America’s leading Catholic apologists, was helped [...]
The Cost of Opposing Ritualism
Wednesday, March 10, 2010This is a moving account of the blessings that Schneck enjoyed in the Reformed Church and of the opposition that he faced in trying to defend the heritage that he had received. This is an encouragement to stand fast in the truth that we have received and to be aware of the difficulties we will [...]
Reply to the Joint FV Profession, Part 7 — None Dare Call It “Baptismal Regeneration”
Thursday, March 4, 2010It may come as a surprise to many that the Joint FV Profession, authored by Doug Wilson and signed by PCA Pastors Jeff Meyers and Peter Leithart, teaches a doctrine of baptismal regeneration. Now, you may say to me, “Wait a minute! Don’t they deny teaching baptismal regeneration in that very document?” Well, let’s examine [...]
Reply to the Joint FV Profession, Part 6 — The Federal Vision’s Rejection of Biblical Bi-Covenantalism
Tuesday, March 2, 2010The Joint Federal Vision Profession, written by Douglas Wilson and signed by PCA Pastor Jeff Meyers, teaches a mono-covenantal position that rejects the bi-covenantal structure of the Standards. It collapses the crucial distinctions between faith and works, grace and law, and our merit and Christ’s merit. I have written extensively on the issue of the [...]