Catholicity, Orthodoxy, and Lordship
Since we live in an age of setbacks, it is not always apparent to us that the Kingdom has, in fact, grown. But, if we take a look at the Kingdom in the year 300, we find it suffering in pre-Constantinian tribulation. A few centuries later, the Church was wrestling the tribes of Northern Europe …
James Jordan summarizes the consequences of weekly communion: Calvin desired greatly that the rite of the Lord’s Supper be present each week in worship, and that the thankfulness highlighted in worship be extended into all labor. In this way, the principles of the Kingdom would flow from worship into the highways and byways of all of …
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Brian Moats went through the trouble of transcribing this long quote from James Jordan’s lectures on paedocommunion (well worth the read): “”Think back to the garden. Adam and Eve…this time they don’t sin. They have a child. Does the child grow up knowing the Lord? Yes. The child, from the womb, is bonded in. Bonded …
The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement within Western Catholic Christendom, not a revolt against it. While there were some movements at the time of the Reformation that continued various revolutionary medieval outbursts, and others that extended medieval notions of separated and highly discipled pacifist communities, these were not part of the Protestant movement itself. …
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For those of us who have been following closely the genesis of the Trinity House, here is another good news: their website is officially live. Check it out!
In an article of appreciation for James Jordan and his theology, Anthony Cowley quotes extensively from Jordan’s studies on worship. Among them, is a strong critique of the Puritan expression of the regulative principle: The simplistic version of the regulative principle is hard to apply. First of all, no one is able to apply it without …
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It is important to understand that only the gospel gives men health. The labor of physicians is important, but only as a means of holding back the curse. Physicians cannot give men true health. Nor can eating “health foods ,” fasting, exercise, colonies, or any other feature of the Old Creation. The first creation is decaying. It …
To say that the root of our problems is religious is to say a great deal, but also to say rather little. Compared with the heredity and environmental reductionism popular in modern (and in ancient) thought, a confession that human nature and its problems are fundamentally religious is quite radical and immeasurably important. If, however, …
Recently the magazine Tabletalk published a series of essays against Calvinist theologian N. T. Wright. The black cover of this issue lets us know just how dangerous this man is…read the entire post.
Here are some quotes from Jim’s lectures: God’s business in the world is to make new kinds of people. The Holy Spirit plugs us into the Olive Tree. He plugs us into the entire Biblical history. Most things in human life have a chiastic structure. God lives this way as the Father sends the Spirit …
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