Concerning BMEV

BMEV, or “Blessed Mary Ever-Virgin,” should not be an issue for any Protestant today, but clamor from various quarters means that we need once again to “get real” with the Biblical data here. Herewith is a reworking of a recent essay on the subject originally published in Biblical Horizons.
Early on in the church it was [...]

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Rome? Why Bother?

When I hear from time to time of some young evangelical Presbyterian going into Roman Catholicism, I ask myself, “Why bother? You’re already in a church pretty much like what the Reformers rejected.”
 
In the Medieval church, the congregation did little but watch while the priest and choir did everything. It’s not much different in conservative [...]

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2009 Biblical Horizons Conference

LOCATION: Trinity Presbyterian Church, 44 Southview Avenue, Valparaiso, FL 
 

 

BIBLICAL HORIZONS 2009 BIBLE CONFERENCE
July 20-24
- Peter Leithart on Sex & Death in Leviticus 18 & 20. That’s right: the gross, sexy chapters. Three lectures projected. (How can you pass up attending these????)
- James B. Jordan on Learning Holy War at Sinai. Leviticus between Egypt and Canaan. Six [...]

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Sanctus

http://biblicalhorizons.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/jordan_sanctus.pdf
 
Let’s see if this works. This should be a link to the Sanctus I put together for use at the Biblical Horizons Conferences. Some churches have been using it also. So, let’s see if this works.

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The Pastoral Function

I wrote this elsewhere and was encouraged to put it here. It is a comment on what a pastor is. Today, this is not very well understood, and God’s people suffer because of it.
There are four professions: medicine, education, law, and religion. Each of these, when done at a professional level, is marked by the [...]

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Lectures on Worship

Lectures on worship by James B. Jordan, delivered at the first meeting of the Eastern European branches of the Confederation of Reformation Churches in Budapest, are now up on line. The lectures were delivered in English without translation. You can hear them, and also lectures by Rev. Jack Phelps, Presiding Minister of the CREC, at [...]

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Romans 7

This is a problematic and much discussed passage. I’ve been discussing it in another forum, and have decided to move it here and present some very preliminary observations about it.
One large question is this: Who is the speaker here and what is his situation? Traditionally, the speaker is seen to be Paul and the situation [...]

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The Name of Jesus

“It is an experience of our days that the spoken name of Jesus alone exercises an unforeseen power; and the effort which it cost to speak this name is perhaps connected to some faint apprehension of the power which is inherent within it. Wherever the name of Jesus Christ is spoken it is a protection [...]

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Marriage By Faith

We are about to enter a new era of world history. How will it come?
The last time it came, it came by means of God conquering the impossible and overcoming barriers that were superhuman. That is how God does it every time He does a new thing. The last time, He overcame the remnants of [...]

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What Happens if the Church Does Not Sing the Imprecatory Psalms?

What happens if the church doesn’t sing the Imprecatory Psalms? We don’t like them. They are mean and nasty, and the one outstanding virtue inculcated in our public schools and universities (as Allan Bloom noted more than twenty years ago in his observations of American college students) is “niceness.” But what happens when everyone is [...]

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