2012
While on vacation this week I saw 2012. It was a fairly predictable disaster movie specimen, with all the obligatory near misses and explosions, that, like Thanksgiving turkey with all the trimmings, always accompany such cinematic festivities. Nevertheless, amidst the tsunamis, pyroclastic flows, and shifting of tectonic plates, and despite the best attempts of one small, struggling, dysfunctional, all-American family to divert our attention by their constant near obliteration, occassional ideas actually bobbed to the surface like a bit of flotsam from a rapidly sinking ship. First off, there was the idea that the Mayan’s predicted the end of

Measure it by the Marks
R Scott Clark helps people navigating their way through the hard question of when and how to leave a generically evangelical church, lacking the marks of a true church,  in favour of a confessionally Reformed congregation, here.

Sermon on Natural Law and Romans 2:1-16
With fear and trembling I’ve begun to work through Romans at Main Street. You can listen to last Lord’s Day’s sermon dealing with, among other things, the subject of natural law here

Paul Jones lectures on reformed music, hymnody, and psalmody
Part One: Music Singing and the Protestant Reformation Part Two: Martin Luther and Reformation Hymnody Part Three: John Calvin and the Recovery of Psalm Singing Part Four: Hymnody in a Post-hymnody World.

More from Helm’s Deep on Natural Law
You can read more excellent thoughts from Paul Helm on ‘Natural Law’ here and here.  The first of these deals with some biblical foundations for thinking about natural law. Helm insightfuly points out, for example, that during the period when sin reigned before the law was given (Romans 5:13-14), the period from Adam to Moses, there was nevertheless an awareness among both the covenantal (e.g. Abraham) and extra-covenantal (e.g. Abimelech) characters in the Genesis narrative of