This is my personal account. My former TA @sungyak posts here mostly. I enjoy writing, teaching, and playing the organ.
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Jun 13
If you look at the qualifications of elders in 1 Timothy and Titus, you’ll see that Paul emphasizes qualities of character. It’s important to be able to preach and teach, but it’s even more important to be an example of Christlikeness that others can imitate.
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If you believe the Gospel, you need to promote the Gospel.
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God wants our minds, but he also wants our feelings, to be consecrated to him. He wants his joys to be our joys, his sorrows to be our sorrows, his enthusiasms to be our enthusiasms, his compassions to be our compassions.
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Dr. John Frame retweeted
May 21
Available for immediate download. Hardcopy available soon.
“This is a collection of sermons by the preacher John Frame from the theologian John Frame. Theologians are notoriously known (often accurately) for being mediocre, boring preachers. The sermons in this book are anything but mediocre or boring. First preached in churches and conferences and from chapel platforms, the sermons are simple, direct, and hard-hitting. As the old-timers were inclined to say, John puts the cookies on the bottom shelf. Far from being an ivory-tower theological preacher, he preaches intensely relevant, practical sermons — sometimes painfully relevant and practical.
John Frame is in advancing years and suffers a few health challenges. This could be his final book. If so, there is no more appropriate capstone to, not just his academic career, but his life as a follower of Jesus Christ.
I challenge you to read these sermons from a first-rate theological mind nourished by a first-rate theological heart. I pray that God will widen your heart as a result of this reading, just as he has widened mine.” @DrJohnFrame
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May 20
The early Christians, especially the apostles, were the most disadvantaged of human beings, save Jesus. Yet, following the path of the cross, they did not try to force others to “equalize” those disadvantages. They accepted their disadvantages as part of their ethical situation
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and sought to live in that situation so as to please Christ. New Testament exhortations to citizens, slaves, wives, and children is entirely contrary to the views of modern society (see Rom. 13; 1 Cor. 9; Eph. 5:22–6:9; Col. 3:18–4:1; 1 Peter 2:13–3:22).
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May 20
Of course, the OT prophets do teach us to fight against oppression. But our main weapon in this battle is the Word of God. We are not to imagine that all problems can be solved by an omniscient, all-benevolent state. Here the 1st commandment as well as the 10th becomes relevant.
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May 19
Governments are the ruling bodies of our extended family in Adam. But I do believe that government should give families and churches the first opportunity to meet diaconal needs. And, when government steps in, it should do so with a full understanding of its own limitations,
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May 19
particularly its inability to micromanage moral inequities. Government should enter the scene only when the families, churches, and other private agencies have shown themselves clearly unwilling or incompetent to do so.
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May 19
And in this enterprise, local government should have priority, then regional/state, then federal; for the more local a government is, the better position it is in to assess true need.
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We must worship God only as he desires. And given what Reformed folk believe about special revelation and its finality, the only place to go to see how God desires to be worshiped is in his word.
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Unquestioning acceptance of tradition…is much more like the Roman Catholic view of authority than like the Reformed.
It is the Romanists who have regularly told us that we are situated in a tradition, that we should not even consider bringing arguments against it.
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If no exceptions may be taken (or if exceptions may be taken, but not taught, as some “strict” subscriptionists wish), then don’t the confessions become, for practical purposes, equal to Scripture?
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Certainly they become incorrigible, unreformable. They are no longer subject to the higher standard of Scripture.
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We have three levels of meaning: (1) an equivalent English phrase, (2) a theological explanation of the terms, and (3) a program for our lives. I know of no term that better covers all these kinds of meaning (and more) than application.
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When we ask the “meaning” of a passage, we are simply confessing that we don’t know what to do with it. When we explain meaning in various ways, we are helping people learn what to do with the language, how to apply the language to themselves.
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The difficulties of interpretation do not stand in the way of God’s communicating his personal words to his people. We do not understand everything in Scripture, but we understand much, by God’s grace.
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There is something mysteriously captivating to the human mind about the number three. Threefold repetitions and distinctions abound in human life and speech, both in Scripture and outside it. I have a file containing hundreds of these...
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Dr. John Frame retweeted
Apr 23
GENTLENESS IN THE PASTORATE
-John Frame
As many of you know, I have for several years been going through I Corinthians in my seminary chapel talks, very slowly...Read on => ber.short.gy/PvoYXf
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