#church… A Biblical Description of the Church 13 Apr 2022 Christians often get asked, “What is the church?” Although they furnish good answers, there is none better than what chapter twenty-five, sections one through five of The Westminster Confession of…
#faith… The Role of the Holy Spirit 7 Apr 2022 In this post, I want us to turn our attention to the role of the Holy Spirit in the Christian life. Many reformed Christians like the idea that the Holy…
#faith… The Synergistic Nature of Sanctification 31 Mar 2022 My last post referenced the synergistic nature of sanctification when it states, “The Christian must always be working out their salvation (Phil. 2:12) but must be doing so synergistically, cooperating…
#salvation… Past, Present, and Future Sanctification 25 Mar 2022 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ~ Romans 8:13…
#faith… Christ as Our Atonement 10 Feb 2022 The doctrine of substitutionary atonement is at the heart of the Gospel. Louis Berkhof introduces his section on the atonement with these words: “The great and central part of the…
#faith… The Noetic Effects of Sin 17 Dec 2021 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable…
#faith… Common Grace and Special Grace 9 Dec 2021 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;they do not know over what they stumble. ~ Proverbs 4:19 In the last post, I discussed the difference between general revelation…
#faith… Is Continuing Revelation Biblical? 24 Nov 2021 9 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—10 these things God has revealed to us…
#faith… The Sufficiency of God’s Word 17 Nov 2021 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead,…
#scripture… “God’s Word as a Means of Grace” 12 Nov 2021 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new…
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