How to Be Irrelevant
What do pulpits, a stool, community, relationships, and the Word of God have to do with being relevant?
Read More How to Be IrrelevantCategory: Church History
Ten Keys to Evangelical Political Involvement (Donald McConnell)
Here is another video from the God and Governing Conference hosted by Trinity Law School.
Read More Ten Keys to Evangelical Political Involvement (Donald McConnell)An Evaluation of the “Old School” Church: Learning from the Catechumenate
Recently I was studying for a class in which I had the privilege of exploring the spiritual lives of those in the process of demonstrating their devotion to Christ in the first four centuries of the Mediterranean Church’s existence. This process of the assimilation of new devotees to Christ that resulted in their baptism, which […]
Read More An Evaluation of the “Old School” Church: Learning from the CatechumenateRead Them & They’ll Read You.
Doctrine is most important. It is important because it informs our practice. It is important because it teaches us about God. It is important because we derive it from God’s most Holy Word. Many folks know doctrine well. Many folks can opine about the finer points of all things theological. Waxing eloquent, many are able […]
Read More Read Them & They’ll Read You.Some Various Quotations by Calvin on Idolatry
Rather than bore you with my prose, I leave you some quotations from Calvin: Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to […]
Read More Some Various Quotations by Calvin on IdolatryIn Chains for a Higher Call
A short video reminder to stand for the persecuted church in any way you can. The song is “I Will Sing” by Rich Mullins
Read More In Chains for a Higher CallJohn Owen on Images
From The Glory of Christ: In this way Roman Catholics are deceived. They delight outwardly in images of Christ depicting his sufferings, resurrection and glory. By these images they think their love for him grows more and more strong. But no man-made image can truly represent the person of Christ and his glory. Only the […]
Read More John Owen on ImagesT.U.L.I.P.-Had Enough of It Yet?
To folllow is yet another synopsis of T.U.L.I.P., just in case you haven’t ever read about it before. Cough… Having previously written about the Total Depravity of man, it wouldn’t be conducive to rehash the doctrine in all its detail. However, we will touch briefly on some points that may have been vaguely made then. […]
Read More T.U.L.I.P.-Had Enough of It Yet?The Gospel
First things first. We need to talk about the term gospel, define what we mean by its usage, and then measure our definition with gospel’s biblical denotation. In a time where everyone has his own relative definition and belief of any and all, it is indeed important to have an absolute, biblical definition of gospel. […]
Read More The GospelLet Your Sins Be Strong
God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ Luke 18:13 One of the tendencies we can often fall into is trying to minimize our sin. We look at wrongs we have done and do everything we can to try and justify our actions, but this is not taking full ownership of our sins. Many times, as […]
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