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GUEST POST: Spencer Mumme on Romans 11
[Spencer Mumme shared the following essay with me. I found it so brilliant and succinct, I asked him if he would allow me to post it here. Spencer has summarized what I think are the key issues in reading Romans 11 properly. While I find much that is attractive in Jordan’s preterist interpretation of Romans… Read more
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Dabney Ecclesiology Lectures from Revelation 21-22 (Fall 2006) — Audio and Notes
Audio Lecture #1: Audio Lecture #2: Dabney Ecclesiology Lectures Fall 2006 Lectures #3-4 A Biblical-Theological Vision of the Church from Revelation 21-22 Hermeneutical background Reading the text as symbolic architecture Statistics, stories, and structures – 3 ways to describe a people What does it mean to be an American citizen? What does it mean… Read more
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February 2026 X Posts and Other Miscellanies: Baptism and Circumcision; NETTR; Critique of Theonomy; Modern Israel; Conspiracy Theories and Identity Politics; Drugs and the Demonic; Immigration; Presbyterianism, the Public Church, and the Culture War; Etc.
“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.” — James A. Garfield — “Life’s tough. It’s even tougher when you’re stupid.” — John Wayne — A podcast I did about a year ago with the guys from Lancaster Patriot on Christian… Read more
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Son of Man
Jesus’ most frequent title for himself is “Son of Man.” Why did Jesus refer to himself this way? Son of Man is Jesus’ way of calling himself the “Son of Adam.” In Pauline language, it means Second Adam, or Last Adam. It means he inaugurates a new humanity, Humanity 2.0. But there’s more. In Daniel… Read more
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Jim Jordan’s Ecclesiocentric and Hermeneutical Critique of Theonomy
I do not recall the source of these notes, but they are a helpful summary of Jordan’s criticisms of theonomy. I have a couple of different versions here. These notes are based on Jordan’s lectures “A Theocratic Critique of Theonomy,” given in 1991. — How to think about Biblical Law Introduction• When Christianity first came… Read more
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Covenant Infants Dying In Infancy
From the Synod of Dordt, Canon I, Article 17, Concerning the Salvation of Infants Dying in Infancy: Since we must make judgments about God’s will from his Word, which testifies that the children of believers are holy, not by nature but by virtue of the gracious covenant in which they together with their parents are… Read more