Posted in Theology, tagged Catechsims, Christianity, Worship on 28 June, 2008 | No Comments »
This week’s questions focus on the person and nature of God. He is the one and only True and Living God, who exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Let us be encouraged to fix our minds upon his greatness as we prepare to sing his praises, call upon his name, and hear his word [...]
Posted in The Christian Life, Theology, tagged Christianity on 3 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Things have been rather quiet around The Pulpit and the Pew this past week. Thanks to all of you who still check in now and again.
Whether you’ve gone through The Baptist Catechism before or not, let me encourage you to take few minutes and meditate on this question and the Scriptures that are provided.
And as [...]
Posted in Theology on 12 April, 2008 | No Comments »
Question 2
Q. Ought every one to believe there is a God?
A. Everyone ought to believe there is a God (Heb 11:6), and it is their great sin and folly who do not (Ps 14:1).
Question 3
Q. How may we know there is a God?
A. The light of nature in man and the works of God plainly [...]
Posted in The Gospel, Theology, tagged Born Again, New Birth, Regeneration on 11 April, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my members recently gave me a copy of a book by Norvell Robertson called, Church Members’ Handbook of Theology. I had never come across this title before, but I did notice that the Founders website has the contents of the book posted online for free. This passage on regeneration caught my attention:
“That a [...]
Posted in Theology on 10 April, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the mistakes Christians sometimes make is to assume that the topic of eschatology is only addressed by the book of Revelation and perhaps a few other scattered texts. In reality, the whole Bible is eschatalogical in nature as it anticipates from the opening pages the coming redeemer who will restore paradise. Kim [...]
Posted in The Gospel, Theology, tagged Christianity on 7 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I do not believe that the Scriptures teach, nor that we should lead people to believe, that sinners are saved by “asking Jesus into their hearts.” Yet in making this point it is easy to create a number of misconceptions. What follows are six points I shared with the church last night to put this [...]
Posted in Theology, tagged Baptist Catechism on 5 April, 2008 | No Comments »
Question 1
Q. Who is the first and chiefest being?
A. God is the first and chiefest being.
Isaiah 44:6: “Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: ‘I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.’” (ESV)
Psalm 97:9: “For you, O LORD, are most [...]
Posted in Theology on 3 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Allow me to make another argument for the need to be a confessional people.
“For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures…” – [...]
Posted in Books, Theology, tagged Christianity, Doctrines of Grace, Calvinism, A.W. Pink, Sovereignty of God, Hyper-Calvinism, Iain Murray on 5 February, 2008 | 11 Comments »
From schismatic Hyper-Calvinist to faithful defender and teacher of the Reformed Faith, Arthur W. Pink has proved to be a polarizing figure whose writings have garnered a variety of responses.
But as most men’s lives are too complex to be summarized by so sweeping a statement, so it is with A.W. Pink. Iain H. Murray’s revised [...]
Posted in Theology on 1 February, 2008 | No Comments »
Every once in a while you come across one of those quotations that just seems to sear itself upon your mind and heart. It says exactly what needs to be said and refuses to let you go until you’ve given it due attention.
Today I encountered such a quote by Donal Macleod, which was pointed out [...]
