This article originally appeared on my blog (Here). “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45) Service is not a uniquely Christian concept. The language of service is something engrained throughout society....
The Puritan Board
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I’m gonna say it...
I’m new here and to get the party started I decided I’d just say it....
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High quality edition of Lex Rex?
A few years ago I attempted to read Samuel Rutherfords Lex Rex, but did not get far because of the large amount of Latin text.
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Dr. David Strain on Standing for the Standards
This article appeared on the Gospel Reformation Network by Dr. David Strain. I think his points here are not only true for Presbyterians but for confessional Baptists as well.
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Moral, Civil, Ceremonial: An Artificial Construct?
I have a close family member, of a somewhat Dispensational bent, who likes to say that the distinction between the moral, civil, and ceremonial law is an "artificial construct," and thus invalid. "All the Law was given to the Jews," he says. Judging by my discussions with him, by "artificial construct" he means that the construct is one not found within the Bible or used its authors,... -
The Heidelberg Catechism and God's sovereignty in salvation (Theodorus VanderGroe)
My only desire is to say that the [Heidelberg] Catechism presents to us a religion in which all of its doctrines culminate in attributing nothing to man and everything to God. Consequently, it causes man completely to look away from the creature so that he seeks and finds his comfort, peace, and salvation exclusively in the triune God.
Theodorus VanderGroe, The Christian's Only Comfort in... -
Bible-Reading in 2020
Well, it's that time of year again: time to ask what your Bible-reading schedule and devotional reading will look like in 2020.
As for me, I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm going to read through the Bible using Robert Murray M'Cheyne's classic calendar (first published in late 1842!).
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Chaoskampf and Leviathan/Rahab
Has anyone done any reading into ancient tales of God killing the sea monster Leviathan/Rahab? I don't think it was a dinosaur. It was a large sea creature that twists and in other ancient myths had 7 heads. And many other cultures (mostly Indo-European) have similar tales of the hero killing a hydra or dragon. God at the beginning overthrows this immense monster. And the battle of Jesus... -
Thomas Brooks on postmillennialism and the restoration of the Jews
This post, admittedly, is somewhat controversial in nature. Among other things, Thomas Brooks argues for the Jews being restored to their own land:
... Now it is very observable that this great promise must be fulfilled when the Jews shall return and be settled in their own land. ...
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Serve Others
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Twenty-nine Years
This article originally appeared on my blog (Here). “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord…their works follow them” (Revelation 14:13) David Brainerd (1718-1747) was an 18th century American missionary to the native American Indians of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Robert Murray...
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A Refutation To The Charge That The Calvinistic View Of Predestination Is Pagan.
The idea brought forth by those who claim that we who hold to God's sovereignty in all things are similar to the Greek pagans is without warranted. As Ronald Nash states in his book The Gospel and the Greeks, these so called gods were limited by their own weakness both physical and moral. Not to...