I distinctly remember being at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia when Sinclair Ferguson preached this sermon. What struck me most was the way he said that all the promises of God are, to us who believe, “Yes and Amen” in Christ because He said ‘yes’ to the all the promises of God, even to the promise of covenant curses. It was a memorable message. You can listen here.

I posted these a while ago but I want to put them out there again for any who have not seen them. Dr. Guy Prentiss Waters, delivered two lectures at Westminster Seminary California entitled, “Two Adams, Two Covenants, Two Righteousnesses.” These are some of the most careful, scholarly treatments of one of the most difficult, and yet, most important aspects of Scripture and the inner workings of the doctrine of justification. If you have time listen to the lectures below:
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The guys over at Creed or Chaos have a helpful post about Augustine and the prelapsarian covenant between God and Adam, commonly called the “Covenant of Works.” You can find it here.

There has been so much confusion recently over the way we are supposed to view the two testaments. This confusion has emanated from the pens of several very prolific theologians in the past decade. Without spending a great deal of time on the particular instances, I would like to offer a quote by Richard Gaffin in regard to the New Perspective on Paul. Gaffin writes:

One overall effect of the New Perspective tendency to reduce or moderate the distance between Paul and the Judaism of his day is that it appears …

With the recent loss of an unborn child Rick Philips wrote a blog post offering comfort and help to those who have experienced a similar loss. Rick offers some helpful thoughts to grieving parents. One woman commented that she had lost two babies at the 11th week and had not had much sucess in coming to a settled position about what the Bible says about where they would spend eternity. Rick responded with an interesting post that can be found here. He asserts that the Bible teaches that the infants …

As I have been working on my Th.M on the Song of Songs I have been more and more impressed with the biblical theology that structures Solomon’s thoughts. It has not been an easy task to bring together the biblical theological themes while at the same time doing justice to the text. Here is one small section of my work (which needs serious revision) that starts to develop these concepts in an attempt to prove the Christology of the greatest of Solomon’s Songs:
“As we look at the unraveling of the …