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The Lord’s Supper, Food, Nourishment, Grace, and Symbolism
There is a tendency in modern Christianity to think of the sacraments (baptism and the Lord’s Supper) as purely symbolic acts. I believe this tendency is largely due to an overreaction to the Catholic position of transubstantiation and baptismal regeneration. … Continue reading
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Tagged Baptism, Church, Faith, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Obedience, Responsibility, Salvation, The Lords Supper, Theology, Virtue
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Pleased and Displeased Without Contradiction
II Peter 3:9 reads as follows: The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And this is … Continue reading
Tagged Faith, God, Holy Scripture, Reformed, Theology
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Fidelity
In a relationship, we often think of the person who leaves or wants to leave as the unfaithful one. The one who has the affair, the one who rails and sows nothing but discontent. But what about the husband who … Continue reading
Meet Paul Washer
This three minute long video is series of edited excerpts from a sermon delivered by Paul Washer to 5,000 Southern Baptist teenagers. It is quite simply phenomenal. [Note: the editing and the addition of music and video was not done … Continue reading
Tagged Church, Evangelism, Faith, Salvation, Theology, Video
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Sermon Prep on Assurance of Salvation, Faith, Works, and I John 3
Tomorrow night, I’m preaching at my church and my central text is I John, chapter 3. It’s an interesting passage and the core idea that I’ve taken away from it is that while salvation is of grace through faith, our … Continue reading
Tagged Church, Faith, God, Grace, Obedience, Responsibility, Salvation, Scripture
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Analogous Grace: Why God chooses to bless certain things
In my last article on grace, I wrote about Prescriptive Grace and the way that grace is always applied specifically according to God’s desires. In this post, I want to talk about grace in a slightly different way, but first … Continue reading
The Love of God Blesses All Men
Go read this post about the love of God. While there may not be anything groundbreaking there, it is good to think through these things. Here’s a snippet: God demonstrates intended goodness on the reprobate. God’s ultimate purpose is to … Continue reading
Turtles all the way down: a question for atheists
Perhaps you’ve read or heard the following anecdote: A well-known scientist (some say it was the philosopher Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in … Continue reading
Tagged Atheism, Faith, Humor, Skepticism
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Worshipping Youth, part II
This weekend I saw a commercial for Disneyworld vacations. It was brilliant. It began with a father and a son sitting side by side atop a giant waterslide. They look at each other, they grin competitively, and then they slide … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Daughters, Discipleship, Faith, Life in general, Obedience, Responsibility, Sons, The Unlived Life
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Treating the Scripture as a Person
Imagine the following scenario: Your husband or wife calls you and tells you that they need to talk to you about something important when you get home. When you arrive, they usher you into the living room. “I’ve been thinking,” … Continue reading
Tagged Faith, Holy Scripture, Jehovah, Language, Postmodernism, Scripture
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