Category Archives: church

New Theses, New Reformation

Thesis 19- We must stop being more pious than God. If we understand piety as a devotion to God and to His Word, then naturally one could never over-do it. Indeed one of the great weaknesses of the modern American … Continue reading

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Ask RC- How might we redeem the time during these days of isolation?

We start, it seems to me, by asking the question. The shakeup that comes from this pandemic and the economic issues that tag along is good for waking us up. It is so easy to go through our normal days … Continue reading

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Life in the Blender- Awkward Moments and Meeting Jesus- The Transfiguration

Lisa Joins Me on Today’s JCE Podcast

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Losers ‘R’ Us, or First Church of the Base and Foolish

One of the common complaints against the doctrine of unconditional election is that it seems to make God out to be capricious. The late great John Gerstner, in trying to emphasize the sovereign grace of God in election once, with … Continue reading

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One Giant Leap- Or, Reading Providence with Dyslexia

It is a good thing to affirm the sovereignty of God over all things. God delights in the truth and we ought to draw the deepest comfort from it. It is right and proper to understand that His sovereignty is … Continue reading

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Ask RC- What makes a person a hero?

I was blessed, over the years, to teach a number of the Great Works courses at Reformation Bible College. It is my contention that we ought to cover the great books of western civilization not so we can prepare our … Continue reading

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Looking for Love

How important it is to not allow our grasp of man’s total depravity to cause us to miss the remnants of the image of God in us. We are plenty bad. Sin touches every part of our being, and makes … Continue reading

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Last Night’s Sermon on the Mount Study- Do Not Fret, But Seek His Kingdom

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New Theses, New Reformation

Thesis 18 -We must practice true and undefiled religion. Christians are notorious retreatists. We would, in all the wrong circumstances, rather switch than fight. In the early part of the twentieth century those inside the church who had jettisoned the … Continue reading

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Philosophical Realism, Did All Mankind Fall and Sinner in the Hand of Angry Saints

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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