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Union with Christ in His Life, Death, & Glory
The first clause of the answer to Q. 1 is the comfort stated: What is your only comfort in life and death? “That both in Soul and Body, whether I live or die, I am not mine own, but belong wholly unto my most faithful Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ…” That is the comfort. AnotherContinueContinue reading “Union with Christ in His Life, Death, & Glory”
An Orthodox Take On UFOs
My proposal is that, as Christians, we do not have to discount people’s experiences with UFOs, nor do we have to necessarily deny the integrity of the report the Pentagon will be releasing June 25, 2021. We have a commission from the apostle Peter to, “sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always beContinueContinue reading “An Orthodox Take On UFOs”
The Origin of the Human Soul
How does it get here? When does it get here? As I considered these questions, I realized the second question misunderstands the soul and its mode of existence. The soul is the formal cause of the body. No soul, no human body. No human body, no soul. So, if a human body is present, thenContinueContinue reading “The Origin of the Human Soul”
The Doctrine of Conscience
If you fill your mind with wicked things, wicked things will be the informant of your conscience. If you fill your mind with good things, good things will be the informant of conscience.
Knowing the LORD
The following is an excerpt from a recent sermon preached at Victory Baptist Church, by pastor Josh Sommer. I now want to distinguish between different kinds of knowing. The first type of knowledge mentioned in our text is what some call head knowledge. And the second is what is often called heart knowledge. I doContinueContinue reading “Knowing the LORD”
The Purpose of God’s Revelation
If we do not understand the purpose of revelation, we will never understand revelation itself. Much less will we understand the names of God. Firstly and foremostly, God’s revelation is creaturely in the sense that God’s revelation is not God Himself or God in Himself—it is revelation about God. It is not infinite, it isContinueContinue reading “The Purpose of God’s Revelation”
The Incomprehensible God
Ἄγνωστος θεός—the unknown God. This is what the Athenians called Him (Acts 17:23). And, in a way, they were not wrong for doing so, in the following sense: When I name, or nominate something, as Adam did with all the animals soon after creation (Gen. 2:19), I assign some attribute or property to that personContinueContinue reading “The Incomprehensible God”
How To Beware of an Evil Heart
To beware is to escape the always imminent evil heart of unbelief which leaves us susceptible to a departure from the living God. To exhort one another daily is the manner by which we beware, and this is an escape (1 Cor. 10:13) from hardenness through the deceitfulness of sin.
7 Reasons to Read the Puritans
“He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.”
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