In a recent blog posting, I noted that an Episcopal priest at the 78th General Convention of the Episcopal Church compared the marriage rite in The Book of Common Prayer to the Confederate flag. According to this priest, just as the Confederate flag is a symbol of hate that must be taken down, so, too, the Prayer Book's marriage rite is a symbol of discrimination that must be jettisoned...
Sunday, 28 June 2015
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Episcopal Bigotry: Prayer Book's Marriage Rite Compared to Confederate Flag
Even before the 78th General Convention officially started, things got interesting. According to a Living Church article entitled "Prayer Book Discrimination?", an open hearing of the Special Legislative Session on Marriage included some forceful comments in favor of clearing the way for gender-neutral language in authorized marriage rites. One speaker took aim at the Prayer Book's marriage...
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Gordon H. Clark Sermon: The Holy Wisdom of God
College will give one knowledge, but not wisdom. -- Dr. Gordon H. ClarkThe Gordon H. Clark Foundation posted this sermon at their site. The sermon was recently discovered in the Clark family archive of unpublished papers. Here is a quote from the sermon:Undoubtedly this passage from Job implies that the study of minerals, the study of geology, indeed all academic study is not ...
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
What Is a Parable? A Clarkian Analysis of Dr. Robert A. Traina's Comment
It may truly be said that the context of each term of a book is the book itself. -- Dr. Robert A. TrainaI never took any classes with Dr. Robert A. Traina. However, when I was a young Pentecostal and Arminian student at Asbury Theological Seminary, Dr. Traina's book on inductive biblical exegesis, Methodical Bible Study, was a standard textbook and still is today in many seminaries...
Monday, 22 June 2015
St. John Chrysostom: Living With Security
"Living With Security"Commentary on Matthew 7:24-27Whereas his teaching has up to now largely focused on the future kingdom, its unspeakable rewards and its consolations, now he shifts his focus to the present life, its current fruits and how great is the strength of virtue within it. What then is...
Sunday, 7 June 2015
12 Apostles Activity
Tomorrow begins the 'Apostles fast' in the Orthodox Church, and here's an activity to assemble the icon day by day until the feast on June 29/30. On the first day, the children will cut out and glue the icon of Christ in the center of the Tree, learning the memory verse, "I am the vine, you are the...
Saturday, 6 June 2015
Roger Olson Continues to Equivocate and Mislead
"It should be clearly understood that even faith itself is not the basis of justification." -- Dr. Gordon H. Clark"James Arminius was born in 1560, in Oudewater, the Netherlands. In 1582, he studied under Beza in Geneva, the successor to John Calvin. There he met Uitenbogaert, who would later become one of his staunchest allies and promoters of his heresy. When asked in 1591...
Friday, 5 June 2015
Pentecost Coloring Icon
The 12 disciples are seen in the icon of Pentecost gathered together waiting for the fulfillment of the promise of the Holy Spirit. The hymns of the Orthodox Church remind us that the Apostles are anticipating this moment with joy and gladness. "I am with you, no one can be against you." Kontakion...
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
Gordon H. Clark Quote of the Day: What Is Natural Liberty?
"Man's will 'is neither forced nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined.' These words were written to repudiate those philosophies which explain human conduct in terms of physico-chemical law. . . . Man is not a machine; his motions cannot be described by mathematical equations as can the motions of the planets." Dr. Gordon H. Clark Many semi-Arminians in the neo-Calvinist...