Besides daily Scripture reading I am also reading a little of the church fathers each day. Right now I am reading Tertullian, whom Cyprian simply called, "The Master," In chapter 17 of his Apologeticus (Apology), he turns his attention to a positive exposition of the Christian Faith and explains faith in the One true God. He says, in part: 

The object of our worship is the One God, He who by His commanding word, His arranging wisdom, His mighty power, brought forth from nothing this entire mass of our world, with all its array of elements, bodies, spirits, for the glory of His majesty; whence also the Greeks have bestowed on it the name of Κόσμος.

The eye cannot see Him, though He is (spiritually) visible.
He is incomprehensible, though in grace He is manifested.
He is beyond our utmost thought, though our human faculties conceive of Him.
He is therefore equally real and great.

But that which, in the ordinary sense, can be seen and handled and conceived, is inferior to the eyes by which it is taken in, and the hands by which it is tainted, and the faculties by which it is discovered; but that which is infinite is known only to itself. This it is which gives some notion of God, while yet beyond all our conceptions—our very incapacity of fully grasping Him affords us the idea of what He really is.

Wonderful, isn't it?

Another new resource added on the navigation bar to the left under "Our Beliefs," or, you can click here.

The Belgic Confession is not a systematic theology but the historic and systematic confession of faith by the Reformed churches. With this commentary Danny Hyde has done the Reformed churches a great service by placing our confession in its historical, theological, and ecclesiastical contexts again. By reading it in the light of those contexts, he brings it to life for us in our time. Anyone wishing to understand better the Belgic Confession on its own terms and as it has been received by the Reformed churches must consult this intelligent work.
R. Scott Clark, Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Westminster Seminary California

It has been a long time since a Belgic Confession commentary of this caliber was last published in English. Biblical, historical, and erudite, Reverend Hyde helps the Confession speak freshly to our day. With Heart and Mouth will be warmly welcomed by pastors called to teach and preach the Belgic Confession.
Wes Bredenhof, Pastor, Langley Canadian Reformed Church, Langley, British Columbia

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Last night was a great Men's Fellowship! The topic and vital topic of God's covenant's with man brought out many wonderful opportunities to converse about the wonderful working of God amongst us. I passed out a few handouts, and here is one of them:

Basic Resources on Covenant Theology

Online Essays

Steve Baugh
➢ Covenant Theology Illustrated: Romans 5 on the Federal Headship of Adam and Christ

Michael G. Brown
➢ Current Series on Covenant Theology

R. Scott Clark
➢ A Brief History of Covenant Theology
➢ Classical Covenant Theology
➢ Theses on Covenant Theology

Michael Horton
➢ What’s Really at Stake?

Shane Lems
➢ The Covenant of Works in Dutch Reformed Orthodoxy

Wes White
➢ The Dutch Reformed Doctrine of the Covenant of Works

Books

R. Scott Clark
➢ Caspar Olevian on the Substance of the Covenant: The Double Benefit of Christ

Michael Horton
➢ God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology

Herman Witsius
➢ The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man (Google Books)

Tuesday I had lunch with Dr. Kolb again. As I mentioned, he is "the Godfrey of the Lutherans" as he is not only so knowledgeable, but witty. When asked in class what he thought were the weaknesses of Lutheranism, he told a story of when he asked Stanley Grenz what his affiliation was. Grenz said, "By denomination, Baptist, by movement, Pietist, by tradition, Evangelical." Grenz then asked Dr. Kolb, who said, "By denomination, Lutheran, by movement, Lutheran, by tradition, Lutheran."

Well . . . seeing that I just deleted my post for day 2 and I am not going to do that all over, it will have to suffice that Tuesday we discussed the predestination controversy between Marbach and Jerome Zanchi, the Crypto-Calvinist controversy, including the tract war between Joachim Westphal and John Calvin (as an aside, Dr. Kolb mentioned that the next issue of Lutheran Quarterly was an article by Wim Janse on Westphal's treatises against Calvin where he argues Westphal wasn't arguing against Calvin's doctrine of the Supper, but Calvin's compromise position with Bullinger in the Consensus Tigurinus.), and the work of Martin Chemnitz in leading the Lutherans to the Formulae of Concord (I'll post on Chemnitz more later as Wednesday's class will deal with his treatise against us on the Lord's Supper).

What I found interesting, as well, was Dr. Kolb's answer to my question of the Lutherhan response to the Heidelberg Catechism. Besides Tilemann Heshusius' (read Dr. Clark's essay in which he is mentioned here) vitriolic responses (as Dr. Kolb said, you can't really look to Heshusius as a source for good Lutheran theology since he has 7 pastorates and was exiled 6 times because he couldn't get along with anyone!), in 1564 the County of Mansfeld wrote the Mansfeld Confession, in which it responded to the errors of the Catechism . . . I wish it was translated!