Always Reformed Available Again In Hardcopy
The WSC bookstore was closed for the summer but it’s open and selling faculty titles online again. This means that the hardcopy of Always Reformed: Essays in Honor of W. Robert Godfrey is once again...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Bob Godfrey On Public Worship And Sanctification
When we think about sanctification, that gracious, gradual renewal of believers by through faith, which results in our gradual conformity to the image of Christ, we may first think of private prayer...
View ArticleRight On Time: Godfrey On The Law And Sanctification
Well, obviously, the Reformed world is in the midst of a controversy over sanctification. To help bring some balance and perspective to the discussion the faculty of Westminster Seminary California has...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Godfrey On What Is Wisdom?
Ours is not an age characterized by wisdom either inside or outside the church. Conferences on wisdom will not likely pack a football stadium (at least not a large one) but wisdom is a major theme in...
View ArticleFree Reformation Conference In Santee November 1, 2014
It’s Autumn and that means it’s Reformation season in Reformed congregations all across North America. Christ United Reformed Church, Santee, California is holding a free, one-day Reformation...
View ArticleOffice Hours: The Wisdom of Samson
You may know Bob Godfrey as a mild-mannered seminary president and author of several books (and a recent video series on church history) but most Lord’s Days he transforms himself into the teacher of...
View ArticleAudio: Bob Godfrey On How Christians Ought To Respond To Same-Sex Marriage
Bob Godfrey recently recorded two episodes of Abounding Grace Radio with my pastor and friend, Chris Gordon. They were discussing how Christians ought to respond to the recent SCOTUS decision...
View ArticleOffice Hours Season 8: Godfrey On Luther (1)
At the turn of the 21st century there was a great deal of discussion about who were the most important figures in the last 1000 years. In 2017 we will celebrate the life and significance of one of...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Godfrey On Luther (2)
At the turn of the 21st century there was a great deal of discussion about who were the most important figures in the last 1000 years. In 2017 we will celebrate the life and significance of one of...
View ArticleThe Irony Of The Myth Of Influence
For a long time, I have felt that the cause of biblical Christianity has been undermined in our time by sincere people who engage in unbiblical activities for the sake of being an influence. The sad...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Learning To Love The Psalms With Bob Godfrey
For some Christians, the Psalter, the 150 psalms in God’s Word, is an appendage to the New Testament. For others it is a forgotten book. Today, Christian young people know the lyrics in contemporary...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Bob Godfrey on Hebrews 3:7-4:13 (Pt 2)
Bob Godfrey is on Office Hours again, for part 2 of our discussion of Hebrews 3:7–4:13. What does Hebrews 4 mean by “Sabbath” and “rest”? Bob does a great job with these issues in full-color stereo!...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Bob Godfrey on Hebrews 4:14-5:10
Bob Godfrey is on Office Hours again, for part 2 of our discussion of Hebrews 4:14–5:10. What does it mean to have a high priest “once for all”? If Hebrews is so clear about the end of the temple...
View ArticleOffice Hours Season 4 Thus Far
The Season 4 series of Office Hours entitled “Jesus is Really Better” is past the halfway mark! If you haven’t been tuning in, now is the time to do so! Grab your bible and follow along as we work...
View ArticleAvailable Now: A Faith Worth Teaching
This is the 450th Anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism (1563). The HB, of course, is devoted to explaining and applying the catechism and to pointing you to worthy resources to that end. This is one...
View ArticleAbounding Grace: Godfrey On Evangelism
Bob Godfrey joined Chris Gordon last week to record two episodes of AGR. Bob is president of Westminster Seminary California and a convert to the Christian faith who came to faith through the ministry...
View ArticleBaptism, Election, And The Covenant Of Grace Available
After a summer re-model, the seminary bookstore is back online, which makes it again possible to order copies of Baptism, Election, and the Covenant of Grace more easily. Click on the image for your...
View ArticleRefo500
Planning is under way for the celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. I have my doubts about 1517 as the best date to remember (but apparently Protestants were talking about 1517 as...
View ArticleOffice Hours Special: Godfrey and Horton on Being Valiant for Truth
This week Office Hours talks with Mike Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at WSC and W. Robert Godfrey, President and Professor of Church History at WSC. We took...
View ArticleAlways Reformed: Essays in Honor of W. Robert Godfrey
UPDATE 6 October 2010 Listen to the audio from yesterday’s presentation of the volume to Bob. Hywel Jones spoke as did Bob. § ORIGINAL POST 5 OCT 2010 It’s been a special day at Westminster Seminary in...
View ArticleLane is Reading Always Reformed
Lane writes: “In the time of Machen, and even afterward, Reformed folk generally approved of Machen’s fight against liberalism, although even there they were hesitant to adopt the same level of...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Godfrey on the Myth of Influence
The latest episode of Office Hours is out via iTunes and on the website. In this episode, Office Hours talks with Dr W. Robert Godfrey about the “myth of influence” and how that myth shapes our...
View ArticlePastor Dave Likes Courageous Calvinism
He writes: What is striking about this is his forthright approach to creeds and confessions – there will be no picking and choosing of what one likes or dislikes. There will be no shading of truth....
View ArticleMore From Pastor Dave on Always Reformed
Pastor Dave Sarafolean has been reading Always Reformed. He writes, “…Godfrey warns about the danger of blindly adding beliefs, practices and insights from other traditions simply because they make...
View ArticlePastor Dave is Looking for Courageous Calvinism in the PCA
He writes: “I’m not sure that there are many in the PCA with this conviction. We are going with the flow, paddling with the current of broad evangelicalism seeking relevance, influence, and...
View ArticleWilliam Godfrey Ordained to Ministry of Word and Sacrament
Every Christian Sabbath is a day of joy. After all, by God’s grace we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection. Yesterday, however, was a particularly joyful Lord’s Day at Grace URC in Torrance, CA since WSC...
View ArticleGodfrey on Waldo and the Waldensians
For a time, the movement spread widely into parts of Germany and Austria, as well as Northern Italy. Persecution by the church, however, was severe and eventually reduced the movement to a remnant in...
View ArticleBob Godfrey Lectures on the Ancient Church
W. Robert Godfrey has taught church history at the seminary level since 1974. As I like to point out, I was in Jr High (which was Middle School used to be called) when Bob started teaching. Antiquity,...
View ArticleCentral Valley Conference on Reformed Theology Nov 2-3 2012
Join Bob Godfrey and me for the Central Valley Conference on Reformed Theology, November 2-3, at Zion URC in Ripon, California. Things kick off Friday evening at 7:30PM. Bob Godfrey will answer the...
View ArticleBackground On The Current Salvation Controversy
In 1980, Daniel P. Fuller published Gospel and Law: Contrast or Continuum seeking to lay siege to both the Dispensational tradition in which he had been raised and covenant theology as he understood...
View ArticleGodfrey on Shepherd In 1978
Editor’s Preface During the controversy at Westminster Seminary (Philadelphia), not only did faculty devote meetings to the highly objectionable views of Norman Shepherd, but they also wrote articles...
View ArticleAGR On The State Of Modern Preaching (1) With W. Robert Godfrey
Scripture says: “I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of...
View ArticleFound: Hardcopies Of Always Reformed
This volume was published in 2010 in celebration of Bob Godfrey’s sixth-fifth birthday. It is a collection of essays by Reformed scholars on a variety of topics. Contributors: Sinclair Ferguson, D. G....
View ArticleGodfrey On The Lure Of Influence
Now I am not opposed to the idea of trying to be an influence. The Christian community should not isolate itself from discussion with anyone or from common action with non-Christians where the faith is...
View ArticleBob Godfrey: What’s Going On Right Now? Sex, Race, Politics, And Power...
In this session, Bob Godfrey turns his attention to the effect of Darwin’s theory. You might think of it chiefly as a scientific theory but it did not remain confined to science (e.g., origin of the...
View ArticleInerrancy: A Historic Christian Doctrine
Now we come to the second concern of this article. Is the doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture a fundamentalist doctrine? Clearly the doctrine of inerrancy was a doctrine held and taught in the...
View ArticleGodfrey On Being Disestablished
We Reformed conservatives need to become missionaries in our mentality. Missionaries recognize that they are not established. They do not have power. They must understand a new culture and learn to...
View ArticleWe Subscribe
The Reformation was above all a doctrinal reform in the life of the church. Throughout the Middle Ages, calls for reform had primarily been concerned with the moral life of the church. The Reformation...
View ArticleGodfrey’s “Reformed Dream”
In North America today we have many confessionally Reformed denominations: or example, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Free Reformed Churches, Korean-American Presbyterian Church, Netherlands...
View ArticleGodfrey: Sola Scriptura Is Superior To Sola Ecclesia
First, they will try to say that the phrase “Word of God” can mean more than just the Bible. I have already granted that. The question before us is whether today anything other than the Scriptures is...
View ArticleThis Is A Good Book And Now Very Affordable
This is a fine little volume that makes a good entry point to the Reformation. Bob Godfrey published this several years ago. These chapters are based on his lectures, which he gave for decades as...
View ArticleBob Godfrey: What’s Going On Right Now? Sex, Race, Politics, And Power...
How do Christians live in hostile environment and how do they know whether it is a hostile environment? “If you live in an environment where most people don’t believe in God at all or do not believe...
View ArticleFaith Formed By Love Or Faith Alone? The Instrument Of Justification
In his discussion of works, Calvin anticipates the great error of many contemporary critics of the Reformation doctrine. They think that as long as they say that salvation is by grace alone they have...
View ArticleGodfrey Recaps His Christendom Series
Dr. W Robert Godfrey recaps his Sunday school series on “Christendom & the Struggles with Sex, Race, Politics, & Power” with Pastor Chris Gordon on Abounding Grace Radio, addressing the...
View ArticleWhat’s Going on Right Now? Sex, Race, Politics, & Power w/ Dr. W. Robert...
Continuing his series, Dr. Godfrey analyzes in this episode the different options that Christians have for addressing the crumbling of Christendom. Aiming to identify a clear and helpful way forward...
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