The calling of the believer in Christ while interacting with unbelievers and adherents to other religions is to strive to get to the conviction of sin, which only the Holy Spirit can work, but also should guide our approach. Stating it simply, in the unregenerate person’s religious life and efforts,
Continue readingR.C. Sproul has written, Protestantism affirms that all sin is serious. Even the smallest sin is an act of rebellion against God. Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority. (Essential Truths of the Christian Faith, 1st edition, page 144)
Continue readingThe end of the year of our Lord, 2024 is quickly approaching. “End-of-years” supply us with an opportunity to reflect on end-of-life. Numerous blessings are found in living lie “backwards” to have the days of our lives illuminated by the reality of our mortality. The Heidelberg Catechism, a 16th-century reformed
Continue readingWe often think of repentance as something we ‘do’ – after all, we are called to repent. It, like faith, is a gift to us that flows from the cross of Christ and is worked in fellowship with the Risen Christ. It goes against all that we are by nature
Continue readingTaken from the chapter entitled “The Devout Widow” from a book available on Google Play called Pastoral Reminiscences by Shepard Kollock we have very helpful insight into the importance of direct views of Christ for daily piety. “How true it is that “the just,” the righteous in Christ Jesus “live,”
Continue readingSadly in our days, in the church and outside of it, faith has become this weak, personal thing – held uncertainly and not really worth setting forth. This ought not to be the faith of the Gospel, the Christian faith, the faith that feeds upon the truth as it is
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