The Corporate Gullibility of the Church
Call it harmonic divergence, but I couldn’t help but read the transcript Tim Keller’s remarks on “gospel ecosystems” in the light of J. Gresham Machen’s remarks about the corporate...
View ArticleAct Two, Scene Two: Cheap Shot
Actually, the title should be plural since in one of his first reviews of VanDrunen’s Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms Nelson Kloosterman decided to insert a [sic] after VanDrunen’s phrase, “the...
View ArticleIf Justin Taylor Gives to the OPC’s Thank Offering, I’ll Contribute to...
Golfers know the adage that you drive for show and putt for dough. The translation for non-golfers is that 300-yard drives don’t matter if you three-putt the green on to which you’ve chipped...
View ArticleEnd of Year Giving, End of Visible Church
First it was Justin Taylor informing the world (or at least the readers of his blog) that Desiring God Ministries needed money. The post from last June was entitled, “Helping DG,†and at first I...
View ArticleCan Redeemer Presbyterian Church Be Redeemed?
The bloggers over at Mere Orthodoxy linked to an article by Tim Keller on the size and culture of congregations which still has me scratching my head. Originally published in 2006 in The Movement, and...
View ArticleKingdom Sloppy: A Big Bowl of Wrong
Readers of Oldlife may think I am too hard on Kuyper and neo-Calvinism. I know of one reader and commenter who regularly replies that I am just pointing out errors but that neo-Calvinism in its purity...
View ArticleDo Celebrity Pastors Need Their Own Publishers?
I received my monthly newsletter from the Redeemer City to City network and the announcement of a new publishing endeavor reminded me of the origins of the movie studio, United Artists. In response to...
View ArticleExperimental Catechesis
The news of the gospel allies teaming up with Tim Keller to produce a catechism is a target too big to miss. Given the urban hipster brand of TKNY, one can only wonder if the catechism (which is...
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