Against Heresies
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

When does heresy become heresy?

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Can heresy be heresy before the church or an individual declares it to be heresy? Can orthodoxy be orthodoxy before any definition or de...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

We know now there is nothing left to fear

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Sinclair Ferguson's sermon 'Can I fully trust you?' on the 23rd Psalm can be found here It repays careful listening.
Monday, October 21, 2013

The cross has little place in your preaching

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Iain Murray recounts a fascinating criticism made of Lloyd-Jones' preaching in the late 1920s.  It was made by a fellow minister when...

Unexplored influences on Lloyd-Jones: The Vision of God

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It is relatively straightforward to identify not only the theological influences that shaped the life and ministry of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jon...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Halloween...compulsory viewing

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Halloween: Trick or Treat? from 10ofthose.com on Vimeo . Loved it!
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

The frenzy of heretics made them necessary

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The following extract from Hilary of Poitiers' letter "On the Councils" to the Western bishops in 359 AD makes good theolo...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Can we be Trinitarian without being Nicene?

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For all the desire that we possess to be purely biblical in the categories and language that we use to express our doctrinal convictions ...
Monday, September 02, 2013

As true as ever it was

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"You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then He is like a rose blooming in the mi...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Heretics: Short and Sweet

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"All heretics, like Judas, call Jesus Rabbi and kiss him." Origen
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Christ in the OT: Present or Absent?

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There are several options open to exegetes when grappling with the real presence or absence of Christ in the OT: A) Christ was  ontolog...
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Saturday, August 03, 2013

A sentence that smacks you in the head

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To read the early church fathers is to immerse oneself into a world of theologians, preachers, and worshippers who were saturated in the ...
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Monday, July 29, 2013

The Hymn Police and the Editing of God's Holiness

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Timothy George has a helpful short article on the 'problem' of the holy love, justice and wrath of God: Sin ,  judgment ,  cros...

The Creedal Imperative: G. L. Prestige

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G. L. Prestige on the cause of creed making in the early church: A thinking Church, a Church that professes to love God with all its mi...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Loving God above all

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From Augustine: 'What is the object of my love?' I asked the earth and it said:  'It is not I.' I asked all that is in ...

The sure path to idolatry

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More from Weinandy on Athanasius: This falling away from the vision of the good inevitably led human beings, Athanasius argues, to idol...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Shutting out the atmosphere of eternity

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What is sin?   It is the narrow, temporal, pursuit of pleasure, significance, and security,  without and against  our good Creator an...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Still doing good

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It is personally heartening to see my book Risking the Truth being recommended in the Spring 2013 edition of the Western Seminary Magazi...
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Against the Trinity

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"It cannot escape observation that scarcely a heresy ever appeared which did not, when carried out to its logical results, come into...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

The Folly and the Wisdom

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Basil of Caesarea recounting his conversion: —“I had wasted much time on follies and spent nearly all my youth in vain labours, and dev...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

God incarnate

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Some brilliant comments all the way from the fourth century, courtesy of Hilary of Poitiers in Book Three of  De Trinitate : A virgin b...
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