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 readingA perennial challenge in the life of the member of the covenant congregation is the call to confess the faith, join full membership in the congregation and have the “church-right” to the Lord’s Supper. The challenge is, what is being confessed – saving faith in Christ or the truths of
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 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 readingIf you profess faith in Christ, it is vital to do soul and life searching to see what kind of Christian you are. In this post, I would specifically set before you the call to center on the Good News with an attending heart for good works. I am just
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 readingHow far away spiritual, invisible, eternal realities appear to us as we live in time and space! French Pastor, Adolphe Monod, has a sermon entitled “Seeing the invisible” which beautifully declares how the invisible realities of God, redemption, faith, eternal life, etc. are brought near in Christ’s incarnation. In the
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 readingThe 20th-century Presbyterian theologian B.B. Warfield wrote an illuminating article entitled The Emotional Life of our Lord in which he examines the subject from the Gospel accounts and steers clear of the pitfalls of under or over-emphasizing this aspect of the Lord’s humanity. Here I would like to make two observations
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