While all duties are commanded in the law, all privileges and blessings are offered in the gospel. While the former are required of all, the latter are presented to all. Christ and all the blessings of His great salvation are in the . . . Continue reading →
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Kuiper: The Covenant Through The Family And Beyond
While election stresses the fact that God chose one of twin brothers, Jacob, not Esau (Rom 9:10-12), the doctrine of the covenant stresses the truth that in imparting saving grace to men, God, although not bound by family ties, graciously takes them . . . Continue reading →
Let Them Laugh Now
Suppose some persons laugh. You weep on the other hand for their transgression! Many also once laughed at Noah while he was preparing the ark; but when the flood came, he laughed at them; or rather, the righteous man never laughed at . . . Continue reading →
God Has Ordained Men, Means, and Method
The wonderful Preface to the Presbyterian Church in America’s Book of Church Order is an overlooked masterpiece of piety and practice—an especially helpful resource: Christ, as King, has given to His Church officers, oracles and ordinances; and especially has He ordained therein His system of doctrine, government, . . . Continue reading →
Augustine On Christ’s Present Reign
Today is St Augustine’s birthday (354 AD). In honor of his birthday, today’s Heidelquote is by St Augustine. 3. Therefore let the Church of Christ, the city of the great King, full of grace, prolific offspring, let her say what the prophecy . . . Continue reading →
Colquhoun: This Is The Record
“This is the record,” says the apostle John, “that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son” (1 John 5:11). That God has given to us an offer of eternal life in and with His Son . . . Continue reading →
Tertullian Anticipated Anselm On The Ontological Argument
The principal, and indeed the whole, contention lies in the point of number: whether two Gods may be admitted, by poetic license (if they must be), or pictorial fancy, or by the third process, as we must now add, of heretical depravity. . . . Continue reading →
What Tertullian Really Said About Jerusalem And Athens
These are “the doctrines” of men and “of demons” produced for itching ears of the spirit of this world’s wisdom: this the Lord called “foolishness,” and “chose the foolish things of the world” to confound even philosophy itself. For (philosophy) it is . . . Continue reading →
La Diferencia Entre Los Creyentes En El Antiguo Y Nuevo Testamento No Es Lo Que Tu Piensas
Las buenas historias de misterio mantienen el suspenso hasta la gran revelación. Sin embargo, al leerlo por segunda vez, todas las pistas necesarias para deducir la gran revelación deberían ser evidentes. Los apóstoles descubrieron esto una vez que Cristo resucitó de la . . . Continue reading →
Vos Against An Earthly Glory Age Before Christ Returns
The idea of the Antichrist in general and that of the apostasy in particular reminds us that we may not expect an uninterrupted progress of the Christianization of the world until the parousia. As the reign of truth will be extended, so . . . Continue reading →
The Church Turned To Social Issues When It Should Have Turned To Doctrinal Issues
This discrepancy points to the prevailing interests of our Protestant churches in the twentieth century. At that time, much more attention was given to Christianity’s relationship with social issues than with doctrinal matters, and Philemon seems to touch more on social issues—specifically, . . . Continue reading →
On The Cowardice Of Philosophers
Debates on sex and gender have suffered from a want of moral and intellectual toughness. More detailed, less question-begging diagnoses are possible of why so many smart people shy away from publicly acknowledging that a woman is an adult human female. But . . . Continue reading →
Kuiper: Christ Met The Condition Of The Covenant Of Works
Both at Babel and at Jerusalem God supernaturally caused men to speak in various tongues. But the consequences differed radically. At Babel there was confusion and division. Men were scattered abroad on all the face of the earth. That was the beginning . . . Continue reading →
Colquhoun: The Gospel Promise Has Always Been Free And Absolute
The gospel after the fall was revealed in the form of a free and absolute promise of a Savior with salvation in Him to lost sinners of mankind. It was then promised that the seed of the woman would bruise the head . . . Continue reading →
John Owen And The Organ (Among Other Things)
In worship, their paintings, crossings, crucifixes, bowings, cringings, altars, tapers, wafers, organs, anthems, litany, rails, images, copes, vestments,—what were they but Roman varnish, an Italian dress for our devotion, to draw on conformity with that enemy of the Lord Jesus? In doctrine, . . . Continue reading →
The Marrow And Boston Correct The Nomists
§ 4. Nomista. But yet, sir, you, see that Christ requires a thirsting, before a man come unto him, the which, I conceive, cannot be without true repentance. Evangelista. In the last chapter of the Revelation, verse 17, Christ makes the same . . . Continue reading →
Notre Dame Prof Challenges Use Of Church Designation For Para-Church Orgs
A professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, is advocating that Congress narrow the definition of church associations, a status that allows a nonprofit to avoid filing an informational Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Over the last . . . Continue reading →
Kuiper: Pentecost Reversed Babel
Both at Babel and at Jerusalem God supernaturally caused men to speak in various tongues. But the consequences differed radically. At Babel there was confusion and division. Men were scattered abroad on all the face of the earth. That was the beginning . . . Continue reading →
Colquhoun: The Best Acts Of The Unregenerate Are Tainted With Sin
Hence, it is manifest also that the very best actions of unconverted persons are sinful in the sight of God. Such persons, indeed, do many things that are materially good but nothing that is formally good—nothing from a good principle, in a . . . Continue reading →
A Ruling Elder’s Advice For Surviving The Election
1. There is little at this point you can do to affect the outcome of the election except to vote. 2. God is sovereign and will not be surprised by any outcome. 3. In light of the above fact, be calm for . . . Continue reading →