Click HERE for the pictures from Logos’ play, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”

Here are the links to the handouts for week 4 Lordship:

On the Predestination of the Saints

On the Gift of Perseverance

• Click HERE for some pics from the Reformation Banquet.

Today is Miss Miller’s birthday, so I would like to dedicate this post to her, and say, “felicem diem natalem Miss Miller!”
And you also have the opportunity of seeing a glimpse of all the fun we have in Latin, just click HERE

Now this consecration ought to be such that we should dedicate ourselves both in body and soul to God as temples and spiritual sacrifices, so that our minds should be God’s (to know him), our wills to worship him, our affections to love him, our eyes to contemplate his wonders, our ears to hear his voice, our mouths to celebrate his glory, our hands to do his work and all our members to be instruments of righteousness unto God for his glory. Thus whatever we have either good or honorable or wise or virtuous ought to be devoted to the glory and worship of God.

-Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology Vol. II, 183-4

Hey All,
I know its kinda cutting it close for some of you (especially A Latin), but here are the 3rd Edition chapter numbers to correlate with the 2nd Edition numbers in our syllabus.

• As opposed to Ch. 18, 19, 21, & 22. 3rd Edition is: 20, 21, 23, & 24
• And for Friday: EG 44 (46)

Over the weekend (just in case Miss Miller doesn’t have a new syllabus for us) I’ll compile a list for the rest of the term. See you all later today.

Ecclesia Semper Reformanda,

Eric

• Why did he suffer “under Pontius Pilate” as his judge?

That he, being innocent, might be condemned by an earthly judge, and thereby set us free from the judgment of God which, in all its severity, ought to fall upon us.

Such a happy crowd of athiests

It was a great debate! You can get an audio copy of the debate at Canon Press

Time/location changes

• FRIDAYS: Freshmen meet in Augustine Classroom at 1:30 pm with Mr.Nate Wilson
• Beginning Latin, Section B, on Friday only, will meet at12:30 in Calvin

Also, CRF Debate Tonight! (October 18th)

Resolved: Religion and Government Should be Strictly Separate

Dan Barker (Affirmative) and Doglas Wilson (Negative) will be debating this topic at the SUB Ballroom tonight at 7:00 p.m.

• Why is he called Christ, that is, the Anointed One?

       Because he is ordained by God the Father and anointed with the Holy Spirit to be our chief Prophet and Teacher, fully revealing to us the secret purpose and will of God concerning our redemption; to be our only High Priest, having redeemed us by the one sacrifice of his body and ever interceding for us with the Father; and to be our eternal King, governing us by his Word and Spirit, and defending and sustaining us in the redemption he has won for us.

Check out this spoof of a spoof: HERE

Done by “the swede” aka, the Danish Saxon.

note: you need to pause the radio before clicking the link.

Do any you learn by hearing? I recorded myself saying the catechism questions and speeded them up a bit digitally, so if you don’t have your own mic, and would like to listen to the questions, you can hear them HERE.

click HERE to download the NSA windy pics in a zip file, or click HERE to view them in a webpage.

Thank you to George Kong for all the quality pics! (most of mine were pretty blurry)

• Click HERE to view your September 30th Common places.

What intelligence! What scholarship! It takes educated wits to believe such things about Christ, while refusing to believe in Christ.

-St. Augustine, City of God

(b. 18, ch 54)

“Beware of young women who love neither wine nor truffles nor cheese nor music.”

-Colette

A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom–he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

-E.B. White

• I put up the book reports sent to me at www.nsa.foucachon.com/book.html I will put yours up when you send it to me.

  -Daniel (Daniel@foucachon.com)

• UPDATE: I have added book reports, so check back. And please send me yours if you haven’t already. please 🙂

I found most of next week’s essays on the internet. The only one I couldn’t find was Warfield’s On the Antiquity and the Unity of the Human Race.
This one can be found in The Works of Benjamin Warfield Vol.9.

• Meredith G. Kline’s Space and Time in the Genesis Cosmology, can be found at: http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF3-96Kline.html.
• The other Meredith Kline essay, Because it had Rained can be found at: htttp://www.asa3.org/ASA/resources/WTJ/WTJ58Kline.html.
• Because it had Not Rained (Futato) can be found at: http://www.thirdmill.org/files/english/theology/92974~9_27_99_7-13-34_PM~TH.Futato.Rained.1.pdf.

  I hope this helps.

  -Ashley Beck

The Lord’s Table

The Table of the Lord humbles the honest, comforts the distraught, forgives the repentant, nourishes the hungry, establishes the church, preaches the gospel, summons the world, and overwhelms the devil.

And of course the Table as a mere set of physical objects does none of those things—any more than the Word of God, considered simply as paper and ink, does such things.

When the preached Word pierces the heart of a treacherous or hypocritical Christian, and he repents, no one thinks to attribute the power of the Word to the fact that it was leather-bound, and When some poor forsaken sinner picks up a Gideon Bible in a hotel somewhere, and turns to Christ, no one thinks it was the power of the binding, or paper, or publishing house. We attribute it all to the power and goodness of God, who moves and works through such things.

In the same way, as the Supper of the Lord deals with us—rebuking us, strengthening us, admonishing us, revealing our sin, establishing us in love for one another—no one in their right mind would attribute the power of this to the grocery store where we bought the wine, or the bakery where we obtained the bread. And neither is the power to be found in the bread or the wine. These things correspond exactly to the paper and ink of the Scriptures.

What are they apart from faith? The letter kills, but the Spirit brings life. Words as words bring nothing but condemnation. Bread as bread, wine as mere wine, are nothing but a ministry of death. What are they apart from faith alone? They are nothing but increasing condemnation.

As so, as children of faith, you are summoned to come. You are summoned so that your evangelical faith would be nourished and strengthened by the bread and wine, not replaced by the bread and wine. When faith comes to the Table, faith is always an essential part of the picture.

–Doug Wilson September 4th, 2005