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This article originally appeared on my website at somereformedtheologian.com
I. INTRODUCTION
Neo-Calvinism was a 19th century movement which sought to promote Christ’s economic Lordship over all spheres of life. While not making much of a movement in the United States, it was primarily active...
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Hebrews 7: 25
Many times, we hear that salvation is free. Is this a true statement? Is salvation really free? Salvation is free for the sinner in terms that we...
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Matthew 5:12
There is great hope and joy in the text. Jesus says great is your reward in Heaven. There is a reward stored up for us in glory for our faithfulness and...
Published as a book in 1886, The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes was what propelled Vos into the academic scene. A great paper, it received publishing the same year he went overseas.[1] In the book, Vos wrote against the modern theologians of his day, arguing that the laws of Moses were...
How would you counsel someone who has been approached by a cult group? (eg. Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Christadelphians, and Christian Scientists)
This article originally appeared on my blog (Here).
“Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God” (1 Corinthians 2:5)
The world watched as NASA’s Perseverance Rover completed its seven month journey to Mars, entering the Martian atmosphere, descending and...
“And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. ”
Luke 9:23-24
We read in the passage from St. Luke...
This article originally appeared on my blog (Here).
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45)
Service is not a uniquely Christian concept. The language of service is something engrained throughout society...
This article originally appeared on my blog (Here).
“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord…their works follow them” (Revelation 14:13)
David Brainerd (1718-1747) was an 18th century American missionary to the native American Indians of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Robert Murray...
The idea brought forth by those who claim that we who hold to God's sovereignty in all things are similar to the Greek pagans is without warranted. As Ronald Nash states in his book The Gospel and the Greeks, these so called gods were limited by their own weakness both physical and moral. Not to...
It has been quite common on various atheist websites that seek to refute Christianity to use the argument that when Jesus was resurrected from the dead it was no different than what we see in modern zombie movies. The zombies come back to life and start attacking people and eating them, and...
Deism is defined as the belief that reason and and the Natural world are sufficient to determine the existence of God. Deists believe God is not knowable and untouchable. God is seen as the first cause of all creation, but he is not interactive within creation. Here is an analogy, think of God...
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“I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:18)
A slate engraving and a stone cairn were recently unveiled in Stornoway as the first in a series of events to commemorate the centenary of the Iolaire disaster...
There are many verses in scripture, which proclaim that God is the sovereign ruler of the universe and that God’s sovereignty is one of His principal attributes. Before examining any of these texts, I first want us to understand what sovereignty means, so we can have a correct understanding of...
The Burning of the Wooden Shoes
POSTED BY CHRISTOPHER J. GORDON
It was a painful decision for my father to leave the Christian Reformed Church of North America (CRC). He was pulled apart over it. He expressed all of his concerns to the new minister. "The direction you're taking," my father said...
Before I became a Presbyterian, I learned a lot of theological doctrines which I considered wrong or heretical. Such doctrines were mostly based on the doctrines of Witness Lee and Watchman Nee.
Before officially leaving my local church and moving in to the Presbyterian church, I wrote this...
Finding and Preaching Christ in the Old Testament
The redemptive-historical progression is Christ and his disciples’ method of interpreting and understanding the Old Testament. This is “is more than drawing lines to connect Old Testament types in Promise Column A with New Testament antitypes...
Originally appeared on my blog, Hebridean Outpost.
“The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.” (Isaiah 57:20-21)
The Isle of Lewis is steeped in history, heritage and distinctiveness. It may...
By Daniel Kok.
It is difficult for people to understand why some Christians do not celebrate Christmas. I offer the following as an explanation and defense of that position so that you can understand why that is:
25 Protestations against Christmas
1. The scriptures do not inform us of the date...
A few years ago, I was contacted by Ligonier Ministries. I have supported the ministry since 1997 and they informed me that R.C.'s 75th Birthday was coming up soon and asked if I would like to write a note to him on that occasion. I wrote a heartfelt note of how much Dr. Sproul had meant to me...