My friend, Charlie Wingard, has begun preaching through the Apostles' Creed and the first sermon is online: "I Believe."

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)

Over at Pilgrim People, Rev. Mike Brown has posted a review of my latest book, God With Us (Reformation Heritage Books, $10). This is a condensed version of a full review that will appear in the pages of Christian Renewal in the near future.

John Knox Preaching
". . . and how are they to preach . . .?" (Rom. 10:15) Although wrenched out of its context, this certainly is an important question for all churches, ministers, and parishioners in the modern reformation movement.

Evangelicalism is filled with everything from the revivalistic method to what the crowd I roll with here in So Cal calls the John MacArthur-esque/Chuck Smith-ish "glorified Bible study" method (although he wouldn't call it that, I'm sure). Reformed churches have the same gamut, with ministers that preach sermonettes for Christianettes, the Jay Adam's followers and "Preaching with Purpose," the hyper-"Biblical Theological" preachers who won't preach Paul's commands, for example, to pray without ceasing because that's moralistic, and everything in between.

In his essay, "The Lasting Power of Reformed Experiential Preaching" (available as a .pdf here), I think Dr. Joel Beeke steers Reformed homiletics in the right course, which is the historically Reformed course. What is so interesting to me is that this method is basically what I have always tried to follow, but under the title of "Law-Gospel" preaching that I learned from the likes of Mike Horton and Kim Riddlebarger. Hmmm . . . old school Dutch preaching meets Southern Californian modern reformers.

This essay is also part of a much larger volume entitled, Puritan Reformed Spirituality (Reformation Heritage Books) that is available for $15.

Young Calvin
I've uploaded S. A. Strauss' article to the "Writings: Co-Laborers' Writings" page: John Calvin and the Belgic Confession. In die Skriflig 27:4 (1993): 501-517.

This article illustrates in a few places the dependance of the Belgic Confession upon Calvin in both his Institutes and French Confession of 1559. You'll seee more of this when my [I feel a shameless plug coming on...] book With Heart and Mouth: An Exposition of the Belgic Confession comes out this summer.

Happy reading.