Category Archives: Biblical Doctrines

New Theses, New Reformation

Thesis 12- We must practice the grace of church discipline. The Reformers wisely argued that there are three distinguishing characteristics of the true church. The church is that place where the gospel is rightly preached. It is that place where … Continue reading

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Because of His Pure Heart, We Will See God. And We Will Be Like Him

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Ask RC- Who married Cain?

The more honest question would be this one- why was it permissible for Cain (and Seth, and many more for that matter) to marry his sister? It is a more honest answer because we know there could be no other … Continue reading

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No Accounting

There’s no accounting for taste. Or to put it another way, the taste has reasons that reason knows not of. We like what we like, and we don’t like having to explain it. Which is why postmodernism fits us so … Continue reading

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What is Creation? Whatever is, is and David Coffin, Hero

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New Theses, New Reformation

Thesis 11– We must practice hospitality. It is my habit, when I grow unduly discouraged with the church, to read through I Corinthians. Reading through the long list of serious problems that Paul had to address there, and suddenly the … Continue reading

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Ask RC- During the sermon today, my pastor said, “We are co-creators with God.”​ That doesn’t ring true. Thoughts?

Yes, and no. First to the no. Theologians, who like to make distinctions, distinguish between God’s communicable attributes and His incommunicable attributes. The former are those which He can and does share with us, though of course in lesser degrees. … Continue reading

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What He Says at His Feast, Jesus Meets John the Baptist and Rushing to Judgment

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Grateful in the Kingdom

There is, in a rather small subsection of the Reformed world, a rather curious conviction. Some otherwise sound folks take the true and sound notion that because God knows those whom He has not chosen, because it is a great … Continue reading

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