Tag: John Calvin

  • Happy Halloween! Five Ways to Spook Your Evangelical Friends

    Happy Halloween! Five Ways to Spook Your Evangelical Friends

    This Saturday, October 31, you can really spook your evangelical friends. On this dark, ghoulish night 498 years ago, a Roman Catholic priest turned zombie named Martin Luther posted his 95 Heresies on the door of the haunted Wittenburg Castle. Since that night, its halls and rooms have been filled with the ghastly shrieks and apparitions…

  • Regulative Principle “Unworkable”

    Regulative Principle “Unworkable”

    I believe in weekly communion and in corporate prayers of confession, especially but not exclusively those found in the old Book of Common Prayer, followed by scriptural declarations of pardon. I believe it is wise to confess the faith weekly using either the Apostles’ Creed or the Nicene Creed; and I think the nonsacramental worship…

  • Why Does Your Church Have Confession, Absolution, and Communion?

    Why Does Your Church Have Confession, Absolution, and Communion?

    Roman Catholic stuff? For evangelicals, these three words conjure up a nightmare of a confessional, adoration of the host, and other forms of Roman Catholic sacerdotalism. James asked me about these things…

  • Reformed Worship Introduction: “On the Necessity of Reforming the Church—Today!”

    Reformed Worship Introduction: “On the Necessity of Reforming the Church—Today!”

    For a printer-friendly PDF copy, click here. Reformed Worship Series: Introduction • Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 In 1543, the great French and Genevan Reformer John Calvin wrote a treatise addressed to Emperor Charles V entitled, “On the Necessity of Reforming the Church,” wherein he discusses the two things…

  • Why is Our Worship so Serious?

    Why is Our Worship so Serious?

    Download this article in booklet form [wpdm_package id=’12607′]  © 2004, 2008 by Daniel R. Hyde. Originally published as “Why is Reformed Worship so Serious?” in The Journal of the Church Music National Conference (Winter 2004): 3–6. Here in San Diego county we have a weekly magazine called The San Diego Reader. It is a magazine…