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Category Archives: Confessions
NCC in 2013?
So, obviously, the Outhouse has been especially lonely lately. A new year is coming up, and since my family’s catechesis has also fallen on hard times over the past few months, I am considering taking the family through NCC in … Continue reading
Non-Westminster Catechism
Speaking of creating a new catechism… I’m in favor of revising confessions and catechisms, in principle. For instance, I think we could use some language about male ordination. And how about nailing down IAOC? It would be nice to replace … Continue reading
Only God is Free
The other day I was listening to Stravinsky’s neo-Classical opera A Rake’s Progress (a morality tale based on a series of paintings by William Hogarth, with libretto by W. H. Auden), and I was struck by a very apt illustration … Continue reading
Posted in Calvinism, Confessions, Quotes
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WCF Says No on Gay Marriage
To pull a trick from Zrim’s bag, I think it’s time for a re-post, revised and expanded for our current times (because if the Outhouse is about anything, it’s about Relevance!) The question came up what (R/W/Z)2K’ers think of the … Continue reading
Maundy Thursday
Since I’ve been really busy lately, I thought I’d take a break from Thesis Thursday. (Even though we’re in the home stretch — just three lectures left!) Everybody knows about Good Friday, the day of the crucifixion, but for a … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
In Lecture 34, Walther continues rejecting Ex Opere Operato: At our last meeting we barely began to discuss the important contents of the twenty-first thesis, viz., that Law and Gospel are not properly divided, the one from the other, when … Continue reading
How We Know Sola Fide is So Important
It seems that at some point we’ll have to have some discussion here in the ‘house of the most recent Frame job. Horton, in his response, captures very well a thought I’ve had before: This is ironic…that someone who is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Church relations, Compare and Confess, Confessionalism, Confessions, Federal Vision, Horton, John Frame, Justification, Law/Gospel Distinction, Lutheranism, Mike Horton, Protestant slogans, Quotes, Sanctification, The gospel, The Protestant Reformation, Two-kingdoms, W2K, Westminster Seminary
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You WILL Download This Paper
…and it’s FREE! See, right there, that lame joke just about sums up what I know about Free Will. Which means I need to read Paul Manata’s new primer Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Reformed Theology: A Contemporary Introduction. Paul … Continue reading
Posted in Calvinism, Confessions, Education, Plugs, Quotes, Resources, Review
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Two Great Tastes that DO Go Great Together
The latest from OHS Horton is a must-read. Is he rebuking the Outhouse in the following concluding points? 1) Regardless of the historical accuracy of our definitions, what we call “pietism” today is different from the piety exhibited in the … Continue reading
Sola Lutherianus
From an article by Pastor Bryan “Theological Bull Rider” Wolfmueller of Table Talk radio entitled “Lutheran Exceptionalism“: Here is a simple question: What do Lutherans believe and confess that no one else does? Lutherans have a unique history, unique texts, … Continue reading
Doing Justice to Equity
Our old friend Kazooless has been serializing his talk from Hoagies & Stogies: Open Mic Night about the historicity of Theonomist thought throughout the Reformation. The fourth and latest installment has quotes from Calvin, which made me think in a … Continue reading
Structured Shorter Catechism
Are you looking for a super-cheap Christmas present for that confessional-type person in your life who is dissatisfied with traditional pocket-size bookets of the Shorter Catechism because (a) the paragraph-shaped jumble of words and scripture proofs does nothing to reveal … Continue reading
Liar, Liar!
Being a co-teacher of an adult Sunday School class this quarter on the Larger Catechism, I was confronted with the Hard Question of Rahab’s lying: sinful or not? As best as I can tell, Westminster does not address that question; … Continue reading
Posted in Confessions
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SC memorization tool
[Update: This old post describes my first draft, which only covered "What man is to believe concerning God" (Q 1-38). The finished, complete version can be found at this link] I’m sure what you’ve always desperately longed for is a … Continue reading
Posted in Confessions, Resources
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Don’t Go Changin’
What seems missing to me from the Dordt oath that Z has cited (and from historical Reformed praxis), is something of the form: “We promise that, if in the future we discover that that any articles or points of doctrine set forth … Continue reading
Posted in Compare and Confess, Confessionalism, Confessions
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