Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Baalism: (FOX) Bill O'Reilly & Valerie Jarrett

Baalism, deification of the sex deities, deification of nature? Anyone talk about Law and Gospel? The 7th commandment of the 10 commandments? Fornication, adultery, bestiality, sodomy and more? Bill O'Reilly and Valerie Jarrett? Anyone hear anything on Law and Gospel from Osteen, TBN, or modern pulpits? Rick Warren? The PCUSA? The TEC bishops?  For so-called Anglicans, when's the last time the Ten Commandments were used in Holy Communion?  I haven't heard them in years.  Washington National Cathedral? Sin, judgment, original sin and actual sins that flow from it? Total depravity? Anyone think the stats are good on who can even recite the Ten Commandments?  Let alone, something from the old catechisms. (Except for Confessional Reformed and Lutheran Churchmen...they would get it, keep catechetizing the kids.)


What's the relationship between ancient Baalism and the modern deities worshipped everywhere?  Who's asking these questions?


Of course, the Gospel answers the thunderings of Sinai, but today, there is no Sinai.  And the Gospel is a moral therapeutic "pick me up."  Thank God for double imputation; pity, we'd need to explain that one too, but for another time.


Of course, Bill and Valerie don't address it.  The deity addressed by them is another American idol, economic success and avoidance of inconveniences...the common good, but not His Sovereign Majesty, His glory, His Law and His Gospel. 


Fear of the LORD, what's that?





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