Michael S. Horton Archive

Who Needs Systematic Theology?

May 1, 2008

A system without parts and parts without a system are equally useless for Christian preaching, faith, and practice.

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Are Churches Secularizing America?

March 1, 2008

Evangelicalism, in practice, is losing its interest in God and the grand story of his saving work in Jesus Christ.

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Marketing the Church

January 2, 2008

Covenant families are increasingly broken up according to the demographic niches that have been created and enforced by a culture of marketing.

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Two Ways of Denying God’s Law and One Way of Affirming It

January 1, 2008

Because we are recipients of the Gospel, we can no longer offer a witness from a position of moral superiority.

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1 Kings 17:17-24

October 11, 2007

In raising the widow's child, Elijah displayed the Lord's power and foreshadowed the Greater Prophet Jesus.

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Are You in God’s Story?

October 1, 2007

As Christians we are a part of a grand narrative that revolves around God's purposes in creation, redemption, and the age to come.

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Suffering and a Theology of Glory

October 1, 2007

There is no place for suffering in the quintessentially American religion of Joel Osteen's theology of glory.

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What Ever Happened to Sin?

October 1, 2007

Joel Osteen's “good news” turns out to be the worst possible news-God's blessing on my life depends on my own good works.

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Joel Osteen and the Glory Story

October 1, 2007

Those who preach a gospel of “a personal relationship with God” fail to realize that everyone has a relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal or as a justified co-heir with Christ.

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Doesn’t God Want Us to be Happy?

October 1, 2007

God is not abstractly interested in ensuring that we are either successful or unsuccessful; he has far larger plans for us.

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Psalm 87

September 13, 2007

Zion is contrasted with the cities of this world because it is founded by God as the fortress and dwelling place of His people.

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The Law of God: A Theological Overview

January 12, 2007

An biblical-theological analysis of the Law-Gospel distinction from a Reformed perspective.

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Law and Gospel

October 2, 2006

Once the Law’s legitimate claim against us is satisfied, the gospel and the law conspire together to give us both grace and direction for our Christian life, in relation to God and our neighbors. 

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What Makes Something a Sacrament?

June 1, 2006

We look for “god” at all the high places but the true God inhabits the low places-when and where he has promised to be.

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What Makes Something a Means of Grace?

January 14, 2006

God himself acts through his means of grace in our worship on the Lord’s Day.

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Reformed Theology vs. Hyper-Calvinism

November 1, 2005

An examination of the important differences between Reformed theology and hyper-Calvinism.

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Christ at the Center of the Spirit’s Work

January 30, 2005

A re-examination of the Holy Spirit’s role in the Triune God’s work of redemption.

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Christ at the Center of Theology

January 28, 2005

Reformed theology does not have a central dogma but at its best attempts to unfold naturally from the history of redemption as we find it in Scripture.

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