Monthly Archives: February 2015

Don’t resent it…hate it…

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

The reformer doesn’t resent evil— he is no sentimentalist— but he does hate it. Doug Wilson, RfR, (Kindle Location 1561).

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Political presuppositionalism…

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

So here is the foundational principle: Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not. Doug Wilson, RfR, (Kindle Location 1543).

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Neither any author more excellent…

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Neither is there any author more excellent than God, nor any skill more efficacious than the word of God, nor any cause better than that good might be created by the good God. Augustine, CoG, XI.21

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Damned jurisdictional claim…

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

—the theory of evolution is a jurisdictional claim that the devil is making. Doug Wilson, RfR, (Kindle Locations 1526-1527).

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Profoundly remote from our way of thinking…

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

For not in our fashion does He look forward to what is future, nor at what is present, nor back upon what is past; but in a manner quite different and far and profoundly remote from our way of thinking.  … Continue reading →

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Life happens here once again…

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

At Trinity Reformed Church, Edgewood, New Mexico, we have some kids in our services. All of our kids. And we delight in that. Sometimes there are disruptions because of our kids. When that happens, I am likely to say “Life … Continue reading →

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Don’t rise to the bait…

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

…Christians do better when the trap has sprung than they do in refusing to take the bait. Doug Wilson, RfR, (Kindle Locations 1491-1492).

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Oppositions of contraries…

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

As, then, these oppositions of contraries lend beauty to the language, so the beauty of the course of this world is achieved by the opposition of contraries, arranged, as it were, by an eloquence not of words, but of things.  … Continue reading →

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As elegant as antitheses…

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

For God would never have created any, I do not say angel, but even man, whose future wickedness He foreknew, unless He had equally known to what uses in behalf of thegood He could turn him, thus embellishing, the course … Continue reading →

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Only in propitiation…

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

…as John says, we can never know what agape is from any human activity, not even from love to God. It is known only from God’s great love to us as shown in the propitiation wrought out for us on … Continue reading →

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