Category Archives: Biblical Doctrines

We Do What We Are

In my Introduction to Philosophy class I had my students read through a portion of Clarence Darrow’s closing argument in the trial of Leopold and Loeb. These two young men murdered a teenage boy simply because they embraced the ethics … Continue reading

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Reprobation, Westminster on Providence and Lisa on God’s Sovereignty

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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New Theses, New Reformation

Thesis 13- We must pray for those who watch out for our souls. The Reformers did not merely affirm that Scripture alone could bind the conscience, they also stood firm on the doctrine of the perspicuity of Scripture. Perspicuity is … Continue reading

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Blessed Are the Peacemakers

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Ask RC- Is the Coronavirus a judgment sent from God?

It is natural, when confronted with hardship, whether it be personal, national, even global, to wonder where the hand of God is in the hardship. When that hardship hits us or those whom we love, we often fall into fear … Continue reading

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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

Today’s JCE podcast

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