This is the liturgy used in our week-long intensive courses. These two books were used in our 2016 Easter and Pentecost intensive courses. These books are an ongoing project, and will change over time with upcoming classes.
Half the world’s population now lives in cities, and that is where the Church must learn to serve. Rev. Richard Bledsoe has spent his life as a pastor to city leaders in Colorado. Over the years, he has become the unofficial “bishop of his city,” a recognized “adviser to the king.” In Metropolitan Manifesto: On Being […]
Over several years of my service as senior fellow at New St. Andrews College and Pastor of Trinity Reformed Church in Moscow, Idaho, I taught on and off on the Song of Songs, in both church and college settings. I had always found the book’s poetry enchanting, and the more I dug in, the more […]
This is James Jordan’s translation of the first book of Psalms. Included is an introduction which covers the structure of the psalter, the titles of the psalms, as well as translational notes.
During a decade of pastoral ministry at Trinity Reformed Church in Moscow, Idaho, Peter Leithart baptized dozens, mostly infant children of church members. He introduced each baptism with a brief meditation and exhortation that applied some part of the sermon text to baptism and to the person being baptized. Those meditations are all available on his blog, but they have been assembled them here for readers’ convenience, organized canonically from Genesis to the Johannine epistles.
James B. Jordan delivers his thoughts on the teaching that true believers are inwardly regenerated in such a way that they can never fall away. He addresses the theological position itself, examines John Murray’s teaching on the subject, and also works through several key biblical passages. Throughout, he gives an alternative position, that salvation is given by God […]
by: Rich Lusk Excerpt: “The impact of the Enlightenment shift would be hard to overstate. This movement inverted the worldview that had gripped the West for the previous millennia and a half. Previously, the church had thought in terms of “Christendom” – a Christian civilization, in which Christ’s preeminence extended beyond the human mind and […]
In this essay, originally published in “A Faith that is Never Alone,” Rich Lusk offers his views on the righteousness of God, the nature of justification and justifying faith, imputation, and union with Christ. Lusk seeks to account for all that the Bible teaches about justification, instead of filtering out portions of Scripture that do […]
This is James Jordan’s translation of the second book of Psalms. Included is an introduction which covers the structure of the psalter, the titles of the psalms, as well as translational notes.
Can we pick out features of Levitical sacrificial and purity regulations that still regulate our worship? If “regulate” is too strong, does stoicheic worship inform worship after the stoicheia? If so, how so? Most importantly, does the New Testament justify such a procedure? Do the apostles ever reason this way? Here, Peter Leithart examines New […]
In this paper, Peter Leithart surveys the gospel in an effort to show that Matthew organized his account of the life of Jesus as an Irenaean recapitulation of Israel’s history, in which Jesus replays both major individual roles of that history (Moses, David, Elisha, Jeremiah) as well as the role of the nation herself.
“Theologians often speak of “special” and “general” revelation, or of “natural” and “supernatural” revelation, or of “word” and “deed” revelation. While there are many worthwhile insights in these discussions, particularly in the discussions in Cornelius Van Til’s Introduction to Systematic Theology, I have not found any that satisfieded my quest for a full picture of […]
In this paper, James B. Jordan examines the “nearbringings” in Leviticus and shows how they are an allegorical replay of covenant history that reminded the Israelites of what God had done for them. He examines the history leading up to these offerings, including key figures like Joseph and Moses, and also looks at the intentional […]
The purpose of this essay is to go where few have gone before, and to open the possibility that there is another order to the Old Testament canon, one that can be discerned from the text itself, which is superior to both Hebrew and the Greek Canons. When we speak of the canon of the […]
This essay explores two models of the structure of the covenant, a five-fold model and a seven-fold model. Both of these have been advocated in recent years and both are valuable. In this essay, James Jordan discusses the origin, development, and character of these two models. Jordan also discusses covenant theology in general and its […]
by: Rich Lusk Pastors frequently find themselves dealing with church folks who seem determined to live on the edge of apostasy. By only attending worship services intermittently, by dabbling in internet pornography, by hanging around friends who constantly put them in compromising situations, by dating the wrong person, and in a million other ways (the […]
“Theology” is language (logos) about God (theos). We can distinguish two broad kinds of theology: Biblical Theology and Ecclesiastical Theology. Biblical Theology concerns the way God presents himself and his actions in the Bible itself, while Ecclesiastical Theology concerns how the Church has applied the content of the Bible since the close of the canon […]
The Pentateuch is full of times and events whose chronology and calendrical details have been long debated. In this essay, James Jordan discusses 21 different events including the days of Genesis 1, the chronology of the flood year, and the life of Abraham.
In this paper, James Jordan delivers a topical study of many different aspects, themes, objects, and people in the Book of Revelation. These include the “Day of the Lord,” the angels in the book, and the Seven Seals.
We speak of worship as covenant renewal, because that is what sacramental worship is. We are called in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit — the Name in which we were originally baptized. We, the baptized, leave Egypt and enter the Kingdom anew in the Confession and […]