The video archives of the 2010 Ligonier National Conference are coming online. Thursday’s schedule is available here and as the week progresses the remainder of the sessions will appear.
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…is about to get under way and it’s going to be live streamed.
This year’s theme is “Tough Questions Christians Face”. If you can’t catch the live stream and if you can’t wait for the audio to be available for download, you’ll be pleased to know they’re going to post summaries on their blog after each session.
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Congratulations White Horse Inn who this past Sunday (June 6, 2010) broadcast their 1000th episode! My wife and I have been so blessed listening to the White Horse Inn podcast. If you don’t tune in…you should! 
To celebrate this event they’re making their first ever broadcast (from September 16, 1990) available to listen for free.
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Michael Horton says no as this confuses Law and Gospel:
…we often hear calls to “live the Gospel,” and yet, nowhere in Scripture are we called to “live the Gospel.” Instead, we are told to believe the Gospel and obey the Law, receiving God’s favor from the one and God’s guidance from the other. The Gospel–or Good News–is not that God will help us achieve his favor with his help, but that someone else lived the Law in our place and fulfilled all righteousness.
Read the entirety of Horton’s article The Law & The Gospel to see other ways we often confuse these categories and the importance of getting the Law / Gospel distinctions right.
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I was browsing some videos online and I stumbled across some classic Horton from the early 90′s. In the videos below Horton exposes the errors of “word of faith” prosperity preachers and other heretical teachers based on the book he edited, The Agony of Deceit
You can watch the videos in the series at the following links:
Agony of the Health & Wealth Gospel #1: Historical Roots of This False Religion
Charlatan TV Preachers “Little gods?”: Touch Not the Annointed gods
Miracles for Money by Phoney TV Preachers Such as Robert Tilton
Cult of the Televangelists Such as Benny Hinn & Kenneth Copeland
Negating Positive Confession Heresy Created by Money Making TV Preachers
I’ve only watched one so far; has anyone read this book or watched this when it originally aired?
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Michael Horton has written again in response to the Piper / Warren controversy this time reflecting on what it means to be “Reformed” and the state of the “Young, Restless and Reformed” movement.
I rather like his suggested label for the YRR movment, “Evangelical Calvinism”. What are you thoughts?
Be sure to read the whole thing, but here is an excerpt:
“Reformed” has a specific meaning. It’s not defined by movements, parachurch ministries, or powerful leaders, but by a confession that is lived out in concrete contexts across a variety of times and places. The Westminster Standards and the Three Forms of Unity (Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, and Canons of Dort) define what it means to be Reformed. Like Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Anabaptism, Reformed Christianity is a particular tradition. It’s not defined by a few fundamentals, but by a whole system of faith and practice. If being Reformed can be reduced to believing in the sovereignty of God and election, then Thomas Aquinas is as Reformed as R. C. Sproul. However, the Reformed confession is a lot more than that. Even the way it talks about these doctrines is framed within a wider context of covenant theology.
Continue reading The Hallway and the Rooms.
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…in this video Michael Horton calls the “Young, Restless & Reformed” crowd to consider and reflect upon the church.
The two books Horton recommends in this video are:
Clowney, Edmund P. The Church (Contours of Christian Theology)
Horton, Michael. People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology
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English rock band Led Zeppelin wrote of a lady who was “buying a stairway to heaven.” Zeppelin’s lady was not the first, nor was she the last, to attempt such a purchase. However, the good news of the gospel is the very antithesis to any notion of works righteousness.
Rightly understanding the gospel is paramount, not just for non-Christians, but practically and daily for the Christian. I was left feeling so encouraged in the gospel this morning after reading some more of Mike Horton’s The Gospel-Driven Life
“God does not simply create the gift and offer it to us, if we will only climb the stairway to heaven to get it; he brings it down to us, uncurls our ungrateful fingers, and places it in our hands. In our native works righteousness, we will always look for methods of pulling God down out of heaven or for bringing Jesus Christ up from the dead. The hardest thing in the world for us even as believers in Christ is to sit down and receive something. However, that is exactly what we have to do.” (p. 108, emphasis added)
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When you gather together on the Lord’s Day are you being served or do you come to do the serving? Consider this excerpt from Michael Horton’s Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
The church has a very narrow commission. It is not called to be an alternative neighbourhood, circle of friends, political action committee, social club, or public service agency; it is called to deliver Christ so clearly and fully that believers are prepared to be salt and light in the worldly stations to which God has called them. Why should a person go through all the trouble of belonging to a church and showing up each Sunday if God is the passive receiver and we are the active giver? It’s like being expected to look forward to Christmas when you are always giving but never receiving any gifts…
When Jesus wrapped a towel around his waist and began washing the disciples’ feet, Peter was confused and asked, “‘Lord, do you wash my feet?’ Jesus answered him, ‘What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand’” (John 13:6-7; emphasis added). Afterward? After what? Jesus is referring to his ultimate act of service at Golgotha, which Peter so often rebuked Jesus for talking about as they were nearing Jerusalem. Peter was ready for action: a coronation or a revolution, but not Jesus’s crucifixtion. True to character, Peter protested, “‘You shall never wash my feet.’ Jesus answered him, ‘If I do not wash you, you have no share with me’” (v.8).
Not only once upon a time, on a hill far away, but each week the Son of God comes to serve us. We may protest. We may think that it is we who need to serve God rather than vice versa. Nevertheless, Jesus tells us as he told Peter that this is actually an insult, a form of pride. We are the ones who need to be bathed, clothed, and fed, not God.
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