This Week in Housekeeping

Recently updated Theological Term posts:

progressive sanctification

• Added a link to Nathan W. Bingham’s What Is Sanctification?

typology

• Added a link to Fred Zaspel’s The Warrant for Typological Interpretation of Scripture.
• Added Filed under Scripture.

original sin

• Added a link to Tom Hicks’ Problems with Denying Imputed Guilt.
• Added federal head, imputation, and total depravity as related terms.
• Added “Filed under Anthropology.”

Thankful Thursday

Already it’s Thursday again. I’m thankful

• for weeks, seasons, and time. 
• for time to spend with the ones I love, and time to do what I need to do; for time to read, and think and rest.
• for the daylight hours that grow my garden, and the weeks and months that grow my grandchildren.
• that God has determined my allotted time and that my times are in his hands.
• that God brought me through the trials of my past and that he will bring me through the trials of my future.
• that God who created time has a plan for it, a plan he is unfolding day after day, year after year, century after century, from creation to eternity.
• that God the Son, who created time, entered it, and died and rose again in history in order to redeem his people and his creation.
• that he will come again at the end of the age. 
• for the promise of a new day tomorrow and an eternity spent always with the Lord.

Linked Together: Holy Spirit

Catechism
From the New City Catechism, the answer to the question, “What do we believe about the Holy Spirit?”

NCC Q36: What do we believe about the Holy Spirit? from The Gospel Coalition on Vimeo.

Cessationism
These two posts posts put together make the best argument—and a convincing one—for the cessation of the miraculous gifts of the Spirit. And yes, the argument is made from scripture (The Thirsty Theologian).

1. By Signs and Wonders
2. By Signs and Wonders: Apostolic Authority

(Note: That miraculous gifts ceased means the Spirit no longer gives the miraculous gifts, the gifts of the Spirit that gave the ability to perform signs and wonders to the apostles. It doesn’t mean that God no longer does any miraculous works.)

Continuing Change
Nathan W. Bingham explains sanctification, contrasting it with regeneration. Sanctification is 

a continuing change worked by God in us, freeing us from sinful habits and forming in us Christlike affections, dispositions, and virtues. It does not mean that sin is instantly eradicated, but it is also more than a counteraction, in which sin is merely restrained or repressed without being progressively destroyed. Sanctification is a real transformation, not just the appearance of one.

(Ligonier Ministries Blog)