Most of you have probably not heard of Euan Murray. He’s a rugby player (a real man’s sport). He’s a Scotsman. And he’s a Christian. Unlike many Christian athletes he has reversed the trend of playing sports on Sunday.  He used to, but doesn’t any more.
Murray plays rugby at club level for Northampton and at international level for Scotland. This Sunday he will be sitting out the international game between Scotland and France–a game for which he would otherwise have been selected. He won’t be watching …

Following the theme of the last post, I thought I would post another quotation from Vos on the relationship between Union with Christ and Justification.  Same book Shorter Writings, same article Doctrine Of  The Covenant In Reformed Theology, but different page – 256. This, I think, is a much overlooked section in Vos’s writing. I’ll let him speak for himself:
“The Christian knows that he is a party in God’s covenant and as such he has all things and spans at any one moment the whole orbit of grace, both in …

I was recently pointed to Vos’s Shorter Writings and some of the articles contained therein. The quotation below is taken from the chater “Doctrine of the Covenant in Reformed Theology” which begins on page 234 of the Shorter Writings.
“The law holds an essentially different place for the Lutherans than for the Reformed. Theoretically both agree in the threefold use of the law … (i.e (1) the law as the rule of civl righteousness; (2) the law as a pedagogue leading to Christ; (3) the law as a rule of life …

When dealing with Calvin on the Sacraments, it has sometimes been said that “what he gives with the one hand, he takes away with the other.” That is to say, some think that Calvin appears to walk a tightrope between the signum (the sign) and the res (what is signified). On account of this he has been accused of espousing a view of the sacraments which supports a virtus operativa position, viz that the sacraments, in and of themselves, have an operative power. they objectively and really convey grace to …

The University of Cambridge is, this year, celebrating its 800th anniversary. Cambridge University Press (one of the oldest publishing houses in the world) has recently republished a number of 18th and 19th century theological works. You can find the list of publications here.

Don’t get too excited – no long, lost puritan treaties here (those are all tucked away in the college libraries)!  The reprints are really a product of their times dealing mainly with the issue of the relationship between faith and science. So while there might not be too …

We have been in a far country, but he has been wiating for us. When we turn to him, he runs to meet us even when we are still a great way off. He throws his arms around us and treats us as dear children. He never hesitates. We approach him with tears, but find that his home is a house of joy. How is it that the just and holy God can give us such a reception? It is because his eternal Son has never disappointed him in any way, and he sees us being in him. He accepts us for Christ’s sake. In our unholiest moments, in the depths of our backsliding, even then the righteousness of Christ is reckonned to our account, and the Father sees us as having no faults. There is no cloud between us and our God, not ever.