Matt Marino
@RefClassicalist
Pastor of Grace ARP | Professor at New Aberdeen College | Theology ☩ Philosophy ☩ Ethics ☩ Old Books | “Let your reasonableness be known to everyone” (Phi. 4:5)
Dispies had a field day today. Guys, read the quote and context of the OP again before you get yourself into a lather next time. The point about Steven’s use of ekklesia is not as some linchpin text for covenant theology (yes, we’re well aware it’s not a magic or even technical…
Looks like I got my work cut out for me in the rest of my covenant theology class. But for anyone wondering, Stephen literally calls OT Israel “the ekklesia in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38) and Paul sees the believing Jews and Gentiles together as the “the commonwealth of Israel”…
No Mormon has ever been able to explain to me how Ric Flair could have aged so well for the past 150 years either, but that’s another matter.
The church fathers, burying the true dispensational Gospel until Darby could find it.
This morning's sermon. God’s Word to Israel Served Christ to the Christian — 1 Peter 1:10-12 youtu.be/N8mqrGVbVjQ?si… via @YouTube
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God’s Word to Israel Served Christ to the Christian — 1 Peter 1:10-12
Sunday school this morning. The Gospel Beforehand to Abraham youtu.be/5CtSAnJ303I?si… via @YouTube
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The Gospel Beforehand to Abraham
Looks like I got my work cut out for me in the rest of my covenant theology class. But for anyone wondering, Stephen literally calls OT Israel “the ekklesia in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38) and Paul sees the believing Jews and Gentiles together as the “the commonwealth of Israel”…
One of the more annoying features of the Enlightenment is its parade of blowhards who were all united on the childish notion that the only reason that God could ground morality is by the threat he posed in final judgment. The notions that infinity, eternity, immutability, and…
SPINOZA: YOU DON'T NEED A GOD TO DO GOOD Baruch Spinoza, the 17th-century heretic philosopher excommunicated from Judaism for thinking too freely, didn’t believe in a personal God who judges us. He didn’t believe in heaven, hell, or miracles. And yet, Spinoza believed in an…
This morning's sermon. Saving the Affections — 1 Peter 1:8-9 youtu.be/WJX4z0FtzXA?si… via @YouTube
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Saving the Affections — 1 Peter 1:8-9
Sunday school this morning. Inflating Common Grace youtu.be/H6xr1Z78s4c?si… via @YouTube
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Inflating Common Grace
Aquinas on providence following necessarily (consequent, not absolute, necessity) from God's goodness “In created things good is found not only as regards their substance, but also as regards their order towards an end and especially their last end, which, as was said above, is…
Yes. God created men with a particular nature. That nature was neglected by many things over the past few generations, but one of them was surely the phenomenon of circus church. You can call it what you want. I call it circus church. It has the same basic effects as pop culture…
One of the toughest things about the Christian dating scene is that the women are all over at the baptist/nondenom mega church and the men are all at the most trad place they can find
Counterpoint: If the left can still do it, you neither “did it” nor seem to understand what either the “it” or the “doing” is.
VANCE: "Here's something I want every conservative to remember: We cannot be afraid to do something because the left might do it in the future. The left is going to do it regardless if we do it."
It's ok to admit that some Reformed authors who were not hidden from you made advances on older classical authors. Edwards > Anselm on reconciling necessity and free choice. Discussing De Concordia in class tomorrow morning.
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Can every part of your doctrine of salvation encourage this hope in older saints without speaking out of both sides of your mouth? If not, time to take inventory of that doctrine.
“My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: That I am a great sinner, and Christ is a great Savior.” -John Newton
See also the account of Hezekiah and the Babylonian spies in 2 Kings 20 (esp. v. 19) and the violation of Dinah with the responses of Jacob versus the brothers in Genesis 34, and you've got the second and third in a working sermon series dealing with the sins of the Boomers.
Latest installment of You’re Not Voting Your Way Out of This just dropped. But for those who want to act according to right reason moving forward, it is, more precisely: 1. (European) You’re Not Voting Your Way Out of This. 2. (U. S.) You’re Not [Federally] Voting Your Way Out…
![RefClassicalist's tweet image. Latest installment of You’re Not Voting Your Way Out of This just dropped. But for those who want to act according to right reason moving forward, it is, more precisely:
1. (European) You’re Not Voting Your Way Out of This.
2. (U. S.) You’re Not [Federally] Voting Your Way Out…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G4RjlQWWEAAwka6.jpg)
“The fruit of common grace—being allowed to retain something of what we by nature possessed in Adam—we must not forget, is a gift of grace; it is not ours by right or covenant. It is in this sense that we also speak of natural theology, natural morality, and natural law. Even…
This morning's sermon. Fireproofed Faith — 1 Peter 1:6-7 youtu.be/_pdqJIhFPVY?si… via @YouTube
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Fireproofed Faith — 1 Peter 1:6-7
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