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1.1 Introduction to the Series on the Ten Commandments

        [Discussion date: 11-25-2007]


1.2 How Jesus Transforms the Ten Commandments by Edmund P. Clowney, pp 1-10

        [Discussion date: 12-2-2007]

        1.2a Transforms, 1-10: Highlights and comments


1.3 WCF: XIX. Of the Law of God [Discussion date: 12-9-2007]

        1.3a Highlights and comments


1.4 WSC: 40-44, WLC: 98-101 

        1.4a Highlights and discussion Qs [Discussion date: 1-13-2008]

        1.4b WLC Q99 discussion [Discussion date: 1-27-2008]


1.5 Antithetic Language Regarding Law in the NT [Discussion date: 2-3-2008]

        1.5a Antithetic language discussion


1.6 Westminster Framers: Obedience to the Law Running in the Right Channel

        [Discussion date: 2-17-2008]



1st Commandment: “You shall have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:3)


        1st.1. Clowney’s Transforms, 11-22 [Discussion date: 2-24-2008]

        1st.1a. Transforms discussion

        1st.2. Westminster Catechisms [Discussion date: 3-16-2008]

        1st.2b Discussion: What is required

        1st.2c Discussion: What is forbidden [Discussion date: 4-6-2008]



2nd Commandment: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.” (Exodus 20:4-6)


        2nd.1a. Clowney’s Transforms, 23-27.HO [Discussion date: 4-20-2008]

        2nd.1b. Clowney discussion

        2nd.2. Idolatry.HO [Discussion date: 5-4-2008]

        2nd.3. Idolatry Continued.HO [Discussion date: 5-18-2008]

        2nd.3. Idolatry and Rome discussion on 5-18

                Is it Mariology or Mariolatry? [Discussion date: 6-1]

                A Strange Glory Indeed! [Discussion date: 6-22]

                Mary: Per Catholic TV [Rough notes]

        2nd.4a. The Second Commandment & the Regulative Principle

                [Discussion date: 7-13]

        2nd.4b. Hart on the Regulative Principle (With Reverence and Awe, 77-87)

                [Discussion date: 7-20]

        2nd.4c. An Evaluation of Exclusive Psalmody (psalms in Eph. 5.19)

                [Discussion date: 7-27]

        2nd.4d. Evaluation of Exclusive Psalmody (hymns and spiritual songs)

                [Discussion date: 8-10]

        2nd.4d. Evaluation 8-10. Discussion

        2nd.4e. Argument for uninspired psalms, hymns, and songs

                [Discussion date: 8-17]

        2nd.4e. Positive Argument & Are the Psalms Self-Referential?

        2nd.4f. Argument for uninspired...per the words within the Psalms

                [Discussion date: 8-31]

        2nd.4f. Evaluation 8-31.Discussion...per the words within the Psalms

        2nd.4g. Argument for uninspired songs...from imprecation within the Psalms

                [Discussion date: 9-7]

        2nd.4g. Argument for uninspired songs. Discussion of imprecation within the Psalms

        2nd.5a. Instrumental Accompaniment. Introduction [Discussion date: 9-14]

        2nd.5b. IA.Introduction.Discussion

        2nd.6a. IA.Arguments that Fail [Discussion date:9-21]

        2nd.6b. IA.Arguments that Fail: Discussion

        2nd.7a. Balancing Discontinuity with Continuity [Discussion date: 9-28; 10-19]

        2nd.8a. IA.Balance.OT.NT.ChurchHistory [Discussion date: 10-19]

        2nd.9a. Singing with or without stringed instrumental accompaniment

                [Discussion date: 3-15-2009]

        2nd.9b. Public Reading and Prayer [Discussion date: 3-29-09]

        2nd. Review and Summary [Discussion date: 4-5-09]



3rd Commandment: “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.” (Exodus 20:7)


        3rd. Introduction: Clowney [Discussion date: 4-19-09]

        3rd. In the WLC [Discussion date: 4-26-09]

        3rd. Modern Cursing [Discussion date: 5-17-09]

        3rd. The third commandment and singing [Discussion date: 5-24-09]

        3rd. Losing sight of the third commandment in reformed theology

                [Discussion date: 5-31-09]

        3rd. Self-love and the goal of pleasure [Discussion date: 6-7-09]

        3rd. Honor of God's Name as His Chief End and What this Implies

                [Discussion date: 6-21-09]

        3rd. God's End in Creation: J. Edwards [Discussion date: 7-5-09]

        3rd. Edwards on some distinctions that help explain what glorifying God means

                [Discussion date: 7-12-09]

        3rd. Edwards: the teaching of Scripture on God's End in creating the world

                [Discussion date: 7-19-09]

        3rd. Edwards: Pt.4 [Discussion date: 7-26-09]

        3rd. Edwards: Pt.5 [Discussion date: 8-2-09]



4th Commandment: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” (Exodus 20:8-11)


        4th. Introduction: Texts, Clowney, & the Westminster Standards

                [Discussion date: 8-9-09]

        4th. John Murray on Romans 14.5 [Discussion date: 8-23-09]

        4th. Murray on Romans 14.5 (cont) [Discussion date: 8-30-09]

        4th. Three Texts 1, as Objections: Gal.4.10, Col.2.16-17, and Heb.4.9-10

                [Discussion date: 9-6-2009]

        4th. Three Texts 2, Answers to objections [Discussion: 9-6-09]

        4th. Calvin 1. Gaffin.Introduction [Discussion date: 9-13-09]

        4th. Calvin 2. Gaffin.Introduction [Discussion date: 9-20-09]

        4th. Calvin: Evaluation 1 [Discussion date: 9-27-09]

        4th. Calvin: Evaluation 2 [Discussion date: 10-4-09]

        4th. Calvin: Evaluation 3 [Discussion date: 10-11-09]

        4th. Gaffin: WCF 1. Key Elements [Discussion date:11-15-09]

        4th. Gaffin: WCF 2. Objections & a Main Objection [Discussion date: 11-22-09]

        4th. Gaffin: WCF 3. Book of Hebrews [Discussion date: 1-10-10]

        4th. 2nd Service 1: Clark, Vos [Discussion date: 1-17-10]

        4th. 2nd Service 2: Clark, Vos [Discussion date: 1-24-10]



5th Commandment: “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.” (Exodus 20:12)


        5th. Introduction [Discussion date: 2-14-10]

        5th. Introduction, Focus, WCF, Authority and Submission

                [Discussion date: 2-28-10]

        5th. Sketches on Headship and Helper-ship [Discussion date: 2-28-10 Cont.]

        5th. Evaluation of Grudem/Piper's rejection of Mutual Submission in Eph 5.21

                [Discussion date: 3-7-10]

        5th. Evaluation of Grudem/Piper on 5.21 continued [Discussion date: 3-7-10]

        5th. Application of Mutuality within Headship with some help from Calvin

                [Discussion Date: 3-14-10]

        5th. Eldership Authority and Qualifications [Discussion date: 4-11-10]

        5th. Elders and Believing Children [Discussion date: 4-18-10]

        5th. Elders Caring for God's Flock [Discussion date: 4-25-10]

        5th. Elders, deacons, and a job description for pastors in relation to ruling elders

                [Discussion date: 5-2-10]

        5th. Means of appointment of elders [Discussion date: 5-9-10]

        5th. Questions that guide the evaluation of men for eldership

                [Discussion date: 5-23-10]

        5th. Duties of ruling elders in relation to the pastor and to the church

                [Discussion date: 5-30-10)


        5th. The Federal Vision within the Conservative Reformed subculture in the

                United States [Discussion date: 8/1/10]

        5th. The Federal Vision within the Conservative Reformed subculture in the

                United States [Discussion date: 8/15/10 - Page 3-4]

        5th. The Federal Vision within the Conservative Reformed subculture in the

                United States [Discussion date: 8/22/10 - Page 5]

        5th. The Federal Vision within the Conservative Reformed subculture in the

                United States [Discussion date: 8/29/10 - Page 6]

        5th. The Federal Vision within the Conservative Reformed subculture in the

                United States [Discussion date: 9/19/10 - Page 7]

        5th. The Federal Vision within the Conservative Reformed subculture in the

                United States [Discussion data: 10/10/10 - Page 8]

        5th. The Federal Vision within the Conservative Reformed subculture in the

                United States [Discussion data: 11/14/10 - Page 8-9] [Audio]

        5th. The Federal Vision within the Conservative Reformed subculture in the

                United States [Discussion Date: 11/21/10 - Page 10] [Audio]

        5th. The Federal Vision within the Conservative Reformed Subculture in the

                United States [Discussion Date: 11/28/10 - Page 11] [Audio]

        The Conservative Reformed Subculture in the United States and Our Place

                within the Reformed Community [Complete]



6th Commandment: “You shall not murder.” (Exodus 20:13)


        6th. Introduction [Discussion date: 1/9/11]

        6th. Spirit and Intent [Discussion 1/16/11]

        6th. Taking and Preserving Life [Discussion 1/30/11]

        6th. Preserving Life: Protecting Preborn Children [Discussion 2/6/11]

        6th. Preserving Life: Protecting Preborn Children (as Christian Citizens)

                [Discussion 2/13/11]

        6th. Death, Dying, and Living [Discussion 2/20/11]

        6th. Death, Dying, and Living (Part 2) [Discussion 2/27/11]



7th Commandment: “You shall not commit adultery.” (Exodus 20:14)


        7th. Adultery [Discussion 4/3/11]

        7th. Adultery (Part 2) - Prostitution [Discussion 4/10/11]



8th Commandment: “You shall not steal.” (Exodus 20:15)


        8th. [Discussion 4/17/11]

        8th. Applications [Discussion 4/24/11]



9th Commandment: “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” (Exodus 20:16)


        9th. Perspectives from the WLC [Discussion 5/1/11]

        9th. Application [Discussion 5/8/11]

            [REF] Application to Postconservative Evangelicalism (PCE)



10th Commandment: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” (Exodus 20:17)


        10th. Perspectives from the WLC [Discussion 5/15/11]

        10th. Application [Discussion 6/19/11]