Taking a step back and considering trends more broadly perhaps suggests missional pragmatism is behind some of the disuse or change. In a desire to be relevant or more easily understood, the catechism used and taught is changed to something newer, or . . . Continue reading →
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Growing Reformed Churches: First Impressions Matter
It got me thinking about church. How many times does it happen that a visitor has a really unfriendly experience their first-time at church? You could have the best “meal” on offer in the city, the best preaching of God’s Word, but . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of June 23–29, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of June 23–29. Continue reading →
Only Son Or Only Begotten Son?
The translation of the Greek word μονογενής in the New Testament is a subject of debate. The term appears nine times, with four occurrences referring to ordinary “only children,” and the other five occurrences in Christological contexts, all in the Johannine literature. These Christological . . . Continue reading →
Video: What’s the Difference Between Covenant Theology And Dispensationalism?
What are some of the differences between Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism? Why are there so many debates over Covenant Theology? Dr. Harrison Perkins joins Pastor Adriel Sanchez to discuss some of themes in his two recent books, Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic . . . Continue reading →
God’s Love Is Not Reckless
Wafting over the airwaves of the local Christian radio station came the predictable chord progressions of every modern worship song known to humanity. I had turned on the radio to quell the boys’ incessant bickering currently testing my patience, and after a . . . Continue reading →
John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (4)
Want of a due apprehension of the truth herein hath caused many, especially those of the Church of Rome, to follow after vain imaginations about the state of the souls of the faithful, departed under the Old Testament. Generally, they shut them . . . Continue reading →
John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (3)
Those of the church of Rome do hence fancy a limbus, a subterraneous receptacle of souls, wherein they say the spirits of believers under the old testament were detained until after the resurrection of Christ, so as that they without us were . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of June 16–22, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of June 16–22. Continue reading →
John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (2)
It is generally supposed by expositors that it is heaven itself which is hereby intended. Hence some of the ancients, the schoolmen, and sundry expositors of the Roman church, have concluded that no believers under the old testament, none of the ancient . . . Continue reading →
John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (1)
And he was their forerunner also. For although I have no apprehension of the “limbus patrum” fancied by the Papists, yet I think the fathers that died under the old testament had a nearer admission into the presence of God upon the . . . Continue reading →
Video: ‘Hot-Take Theology’, Watchdogs & Trolls
In this episode, Rev. Chris Gordon and Rev. Dr. Dan Borvan tackle the pervasive issue of controversy within Christian circles. They discuss the rise of ‘hot take theology’ mentalities, exemplified by figures like Joel Webbon, and the dangers of mistaking attention-seeking for . . . Continue reading →
Hodge On The Baptists, The Romanists, The Limbus, And The Abrahamic Covenant
The Baptists, especially those of the time of the Reformation, do not hold the common doctrine on this subject. The Anabaptists not only spoke in very disparaging terms of the old economy and of the state of the Jews under that dispensation, . . . Continue reading →
Muller On Beza’s Translation And The Limbus Patrum
Rendering “sheol”: Beza and Acts 2:27. Beza, for example, worried textually and linguistically over the problem of the citation of Psalm 16:8–11 in Acts 2:25–28. Specifically, verse 10 of the Psalm (Acts 2:27) had been used in the church as one of the . . . Continue reading →
Benedict Pictet Contra The Limbus Patrum
We must observe, also, that the soul, after this life, goes either into heaven or into hell, and into no other place; for the scripture mentions no other, neither purgatory, nor limbus, nor subterranean caverns, nor Lethean streams; whatever is asserted in . . . Continue reading →
Bavinck On The Limbus Patrum
Moreover, all have their own task and place. Roman Catholics assume that after death Old Testament believers waited in the limbo of the fathers and were not released until Christ freed them at his descent into hell; and they also believe that . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of June 9–15, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of June 9–15. Continue reading →
Vos On The Limbus Patrum
What is the limbus patrum of Roman Catholics? The limbus patrum (limbo of the fathers) is the place where the believing fathers of the Old Testament had to stay in a state of expectation before the coming of the Messiah. After His death on the cross, . . . Continue reading →
Calvin Contra The Limbus Patrum
Others interpret it differently: that Christ descended to the souls of the patriarchs who had died under the law, to announce redemption as accomplished and to free them from the prison where they were confined. To back up this interpretation, they wrongly adduce . . . Continue reading →
Video: Is Reformed Christianity Dying In America?
Join Rev. Chris Gordon, Rev. Dan Borvan, and Rev. Adam Kaloostian as they discuss the future of Reformed Christianity in America. This insightful conversation delves into how the Reformed church can navigate rapidly changing cultural trends, the importance of evangelism and building . . . Continue reading →