From the pen of Samuel Miller regarding the growth and development of false teaching and heresy, When heresy rises in an evangelical body, it is never frank and open. It always begins by skulking, and assuming a disguise. Its advocates, when together, boast of great improvements, and congratulate one another
Continue readingThe 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 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 readingAdolphe Monod was an eloquent and insightful French Pastor in the 1800’s. In his book on the incarnation, The Incarnation and Beyond, he wrestles through the importance of the incarnation of the Son of God for the accomplishment of redemption, but is not willing to only leave it at that. The
Continue readingThe accomplishment of redemption required that the Son of God take a human body – which He willingly did and rejoiced to do so! This, I think, is often undervalued – a believer’s interest in the body of the Lord Jesus. The 19th-century Scottish pastor Hugh Martin has provided edifying
Continue readingIt is good to consider how to summarize the truth of Christianity to those unfamiliar with it. Most would focus on the person of Jesus (often as “example”) and others would highlight Christianity as a “code of conduct” with emphasis on living obediently. Herman Bavinck in his Reformed Dogmatics summarizes the essence
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