Video: Law And Gospel Distinction

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on July 11, 2025 | Comment

In this episode of “No Compromise Radio” Pastor Mike Abendroth delves into the essential distinction between Law and Gospel, breaking down its theological significance and practical application for believers. Using insights from his new book “Law & Gospel: A Primer”, Mike explains . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On Not Mixing Water In Communion Wine

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on July 10, 2025 | Comment

Common “wine” is instituted, of indifferent color, undiluted with water because it is called simply the “fruit of the vine” (Mt. 26:29; Mk. 14:25). Thus the Romanists here without reason urge the mixture of water with the wine, which although according to . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On Unleavened Bread In Communion

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on July 9, 2025 | 1 Comment

V. Christ used bread because with the divine blessing it is of all the elements the most efficacious for nourishing and strengthening the body; the most common, the most familiar and to be found everywhere, easily prepared and the most pleasant. However, . . . Continue reading →

Video: Discussion Of The 2025 State Of Theology Survey

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on July 4, 2025 | Comment

Bob Godfrey, Chris Gordon, And Chris Larson discuss the 2025 State Of Theology Report Continue reading →

What Good Is A Neglected Tool?

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on July 2, 2025 | Comment

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 →

Growing Reformed Churches: First Impressions Matter

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on July 1, 2025 | 1 Comment

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 →

Only Son Or Only Begotten Son?

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on June 28, 2025 | 5 Comments

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 →

God’s Love Is Not Reckless

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on June 26, 2025 | 2 Comments

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)

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on June 24, 2025 | Comment

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)

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on June 23, 2025 | Comment

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 →

John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (2)

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on June 21, 2025 | Comment

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)

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on June 20, 2025 | Comment

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

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on June 20, 2025 | Comment

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

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on June 19, 2025 | 3 Comments

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

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on June 18, 2025 | Comment

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

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on June 17, 2025 | 2 Comments

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

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on June 16, 2025 | Comment

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 →

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