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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...

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Office 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...

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Right 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...

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Office 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...

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Free 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...

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Office 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...

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Audio: 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...

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Office 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...

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Office 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...

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The 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...

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Office 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...

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Available Now: Luther—The Life And Legacy Of The German Reformer

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Office 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!...

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Office 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...

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The Shield of Faith

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Godfrey on Rome

Videos by independent film maker Anthony Parisi.

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Office 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...

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Available 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...

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Abounding 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...

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Baptism, 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...

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Refo500

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...

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Office 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...

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Always 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...

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Always Reformed: The Video

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Christianity and Liberalism Revisited: Video Preview

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Lane 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...

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Office 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...

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Pastor 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....

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More 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...

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Pastor 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...

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William 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...

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Godfrey 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...

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Bob 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,...

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Central 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...

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Background 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...

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Godfrey 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...

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AGR 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...

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Found: 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....

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Godfrey 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...

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Bob 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...

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Inerrancy: 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...

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Godfrey 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...

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We 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...

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Godfrey’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...

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Godfrey: 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...

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This 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...

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Bob 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...

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Faith 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...

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Godfrey 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...

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What’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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