This is me testing my new blog and how it functions.  Hopefully this will be my new home and I will develop some thoughts on campus preaching, apologetics and college life in the not too distant future.

Worldviews are an amazing thing. As I am thinking the FV stuff more thoroughly I am realizing more and more kind of how I arrived on its shores and where the divergence from some aspects of traditional Reformed thought are coming from. For example, when I was in college I was able to make the ordo salutis the Gospel. For those that want to think that "I", or any FV person, is denying the ...

Was the Exodus real redemption? Was the Exodus about how an individual is made right before God? Is it about the active and passive obedience of a figure? Is it about the imputation of someone else's righteousness? Was there a Gospel in Exodus? If so, what was it?I think there was and is a Gospel in Exodus - it is about the godness, or Lordsip, of YHWH. That's why their ...

A couple weeks back I had the opportunity to teach some elders of a church on the issue of baptism. Briefly, the church had a small exodus, because an elder read Greg Welty's paper, handed it to the other elders, resigned, and some people followed him out of the church. The pastor wrote me, asking me what I thought of the article. After I responded he asked if I would essentially teach that to ...

I was thinking about Josh's comments and his experience (or exposure) with the Federal Vision. He brought out some of the praxeological concerns, which includes sociological elements. The appeal of the Federal Vision to me, although not naive to the fact that theology drives praxeology, or at least should, is the theological dimension, which Leithart captures well here:It attempts to follow the lead of Scripture, even when that seems to conflict with Confessional formulae and ...