Archive for category: Reformed Baptist Issues

   I will update you on the details a bit more later, but I am doing an on-line “debate” with Gregg Strawbridge on baptism this Thursday evening, 8pm EST. At the moment I am uncertain of all the details as to whether we will be able to webcast it or not. It seems others will be using Skype, so I’m wondering

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   Michael J.G. Pahls wrote this morning, “This statement itself, however, shows why White is not Reformed. He presupposes that one’s doctrines of the church and sacraments are external and indifferent to one’s doctrines of God and Scripture or the gospel.” This illustrates why I have so little taste for the “You are not Reformed, we are, hug a Romanist with

   Jonathan Bonomo has replied to the immediately preceding article. While I truly have no desire for this conversation at all (Mr. Bonomo’s ability to embrace contradictory gospels so as to see both Baptists and Roman Catholics as his brothers is far more important, and telling, than anything that comes below), I feel it necessary to clarify some issues.    Mr. Bonomo

   I am truly seeking to exercise self-control in responding to two items that appeared today in my RSS feed. The first is a very sad example of what happens to someone who once showed promise but who, for reasons only known to him and to God, has become an enemy to anyone who would follow Jesus’ own prayer, “sanctify them

Not to take away from what James is posting, but Gene (Craedo) Cook and Paul (Paedo) Manata debated this past Sunday on the issue of Baptism. It will be worth your time to listen. Here is part 1, part 2, and part 3. If you care to comment on the debate you can do that here.

   Last week I announced that we have finished the tremendous task of putting together the DVD of the baptism debate from last year with Pastor Bill Shishko of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Franklin Square, New York. Remember, we discovered that twenty five minutes were missing from the mp3s that were provided immediately after the debate, so those with a

   Here is a portion of my opening statement from the debate with Bill Shishko on the subject of baptism.

   You may have noticed the new banner add on the blog. Last October I debated Pastor Bill Shishko of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Franklin Square on the topic of baptism. I commented on the evening here on the blog at that time (see the archives). Shortly afterward, the OPC released a set of mp3s of the debate. We grabbed

   My dear brother Pastor Jim Handyside of the Reformed Baptist Chuch at Anniesland (Glasgow area, Scotland) will be speaking in churches in the Florida area over the next number of weeks. Let me tell you, there are few preachers who draw the line as straight and who cut to the heart of the matter the way brother Handyside does. If

   Honestly, Pastor Modene thinks he is speaking the truth. Anyone with the slightest bit of knowledge can only sit in amazement at this meandering, wide-eyed attack upon one of the silliest straw men ever recorded. (Note the Servetus story again—I get the distinct feeling Modene actually thinks Servetus was a fellow Christian). Do not listen to this while driving. The

   Paul Owen, former Mormon, former evangelical, former Presbyterian, etc., has added his kind, level-headed, fair commentary to the discussion of Acts 2 over at the oxymoronic website. Before I point out the many problems in this retort (it surely gives an insight into how nonreformed Owen ever was, let alone is), do you note something about the attitude and mind-set

Dear Dr. Price:    Today I read the following from your pen in The Christian Index:    A mass of people are gathered at a bus stop marked “Planet Earth.” Along comes the Celestial Bus marked “Destination Heaven.” It pulls up and stops. The driver, who is God, opens the door, and says, “All destined for heaven get on board.” A number

   Last night Pastor Bill Shishko of the Franklin Square Orthodox Presbyterian Church joined me on Long Island for a debate on baptism where I defended the position of “baptism for disciples alone.” As you can imagine, given that Bill has been our moderator during the past few Great Debates, and also given that Pastor Rich Jensen–himself a former homicide detective–was

   I spoke three times on Sunday at PRBC. In the Sunday School I began addressing Frank Page’s book on Calvinism. In the Sunday morning service I began a series on baptism, continued in the evening service, specifically looking at the texts in Acts used to promote household baptism as normative. Yes, this relevant to, and in preparation for, the October

   1. Those whom God hath predestinated unto life, he is pleased in his appointed, and accepted time, effectually to call, by his Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ; enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God; taking away

I have often said while traveling that one of the greatest blessings I have experienced in my ministry is the stability and focus of my fellow elder at the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church, Don Fry. After more than thirty years of ministry in the same church Pastor Fry remains focused upon the sound and consistent proclamation of God’s Word.    

We noted a few days ago that the London Baptist Confession of Faith (LBCF) of 1689 very clearly asserts the unified righteousness of Christ. What I mean by this phrase is that one cannot cut the righteousness of Christ our divine substitute into sub-parts while maintaining the whole: while everyone can and should distinguish between the active and passive obedience

As I am continuing my commentary on Professor Seifrid’s comments on justification (thought I had forgotten that, didn’t you?), I was doing some reading and ran across an interesting “expansion” in the London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) that is not found in the Westminster Confession of Faith (1648). Seemingly it comes from the Savoy Declaration, but I haven’t had

Odd how some folks say, “He’s so mean, he’s picking on me!” while lobbing bombs right and left. So let it be. RS posted only his e-mails to me on his blog (along with an apology—how odd to both post his personal e-mails, with their attendant materials, at the same time). Reading his summaries of my e-mails is simply frightening,

The genitive of the decalogue (don’t ask, it’s secret) let me know today that a partial portion of my article on the New Covenant has been posted at the RBTR website. There is still time to subscribe (can you tell I really would like to see this publication take off?), not just for yourself, but for your elders, too! This

TGE replied to my corrections of his statements about me, and answered the question whether my view of baptism is, in fact, as heretical as Rome’s doctrine of the Mass. An important exchange anyone concerned about AAPCism, NPism, and the entire “Reformed Catholic” movement, needs to read. Click here, and be prepared. After posting this, Kevin Johnson wrote a passionate