What I Read Online - 03/09/2012 (a.m.)

• Free Online Bible Classes for New Testament, Old Testament, Theology, Bible, and More

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    • Probably the best online theological training system I know of!

• International Women’s Day – White Horse Inn Blog

  • While both sexes are human, I think it particularly important to the dignity of both to remember that there are male humans and female humans, and that while there’s much we share, there’s much we don’t.
  • It would better serve her purpose to argue that the dignity of women does not lie in the fact that they are human in the same way that men are human, but in the fact that like men, they too bear the image of the living, triune God.
  • These are the sorts of rich rewards that are to be had when men and women take care to respect and appreciate one another’s humanity, not because our similarities make it reasonable, but because we see Christ in our differences.

• Worship Wars–Proposing a Few Ground Rules – Kevin DeYoung

  • Biblically Informed Words
  • Theologically Accurate Words
  • Theologically Profound Words
  • A Simple Tune
  • But Not a Simplistic Tune
  • A Consistent Tune
  • The People’s Voice Being Heard

• Your Church and Your Life Planning by Jonathan Leeman | Reformed Theology Articles at Ligonier.org

  • We fail, when confronted with such decisions, to seek counsel from the brothers and sisters in our congregations who know us well — often because we have not sought meaningful relationships in the first place.
  • If you are a Christian, it’s worth asking whether you include your church in your life planning. I mean “include the church” in two ways: do you consider it as a factor in your thinking, and do you actually involve the people in your decision making?

• The God-Centered Gospel by Michael Horton | Reformed Theology Articles at Ligonier.org

  • We even hear prayers that thank the Father for dying for our sins or other examples of the same confusion of the persons with the essence
  • Actually, in all of these works, each person of the Trinity is involved mutually and yet in His own distinct way.
  • One of the great places where this gets worked out in Reformed theology is the covenant of redemption. Also known by its fancy Latin name, the pactum salutis, this covenant was made in eternity between the persons of the Trinity. The Father gave the Son a people whom the Spirit would eventually unite to Him in history. In this covenant, the Son signed His death warrant, joyfully assuming the office of Mediator between God and man.
  • Not only were we chosen in Christ “before the foundation of the world” (Eph. 1:4), Christ Himself is spoken of as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8).
  • It’s terrific to see so many younger Christians excited about being “God-centered.” However, Islam and Orthodox Judaism claim to be “Godcentered,” too. The Christian faith is distinguished by its claim that God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and we know this from Scripture, preeminently in the Son’s entrance into a fallen world in our own flesh. We dare not approach “God” in His blinding majesty apart from Christ our Mediator. Apart from Christ, the Father is our Judge, and His glory is the worst thing we could ever encounter. That’s not because the Father is less loving than the Son, but because we are sinners. And we can say our “amen” to the Son only because of the Spirit who indwells us.
  • Wherever God’s sovereignty in predestination is strongly defended apart from such a covenantal framework, the concrete revelation of our election in Christ according to the gospel’s promise is often surrendered to theoretical debates and endless speculation on God’s hidden counsels. It is dangerous to talk about the glory and sovereignty of God unless the God we have in mind is the Trinity, to whom we have access only in the Son as He is revealed in the gospel.

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