Category: Defining and Proclaiming
What is a Christian?
There were two main causes for the Reformation, the formal cause was the issue of Sola Scriptura, the material cause was the issue of Sola Fide. I have discussed in brief and in part what was the Reformation, wherein the main issues revolve around the authority of Scripture and how sinful man can be justified. It is in understanding the implications of these two Latin terms that we can understand what it is to be ...
What is a Christian?
There were two main causes for the Reformation, the formal cause was the issue of Sola Scriptura, the material cause was the issue of Sola Fide. I have discussed in brief and in part what was the Reformation, wherein the main issues revolve around the authority of Scripture and how sinful man can be justified. It is in understanding the implications of these two Latin terms that we can understand what it is to be ...
Resolved Conference 2010 Session Audio MP3s!
What is Resolved? Resolved means what it sounds like: it’s a deliberate, committed disposition. As a 19-year old in the mid-1700s, Jonathan Edwards became serious about the direction of his life. He began to understand the nature of God, and what he discovered was both delightful and disturbing. The more he investigated the infinite tributaries of God’s nature, the more he unearthed his own sinfulness. From then on, the weight of ...
Resolved Conference 2010 Session Audio MP3s!
What is Resolved? Resolved means what it sounds like: it’s a deliberate, committed disposition. As a 19-year old in the mid-1700s, Jonathan Edwards became serious about the direction of his life. He began to understand the nature of God, and what he discovered was both delightful and disturbing. The more he investigated the infinite tributaries of God’s nature, the more he unearthed his own sinfulness. From then on, the weight of ...
The Authority and Inspiration of the Scriptures
We bring you a brief essay from Benjamin Warfield on the "Authority and Inspiration of the Scriptures". This provides a brief overview on the nature of "inspiration" of Holy Writ. It is our goal to give a significant focus in the upcoming days or weeks on the doctrines recovered at the time of the Reformation, specifically on the Five Solas. Christianity is often called a book-religion. It would be more exact to say that it is ...
The Authority and Inspiration of the Scriptures
We bring you a brief essay from Benjamin Warfield on the "Authority and Inspiration of the Scriptures". This provides a brief overview on the nature of "inspiration" of Holy Writ. It is our goal to give a significant focus in the upcoming days or weeks on the doctrines recovered at the time of the Reformation, specifically on the Five Solas. Christianity is often called a book-religion. It would be more exact to say that it is ...
Are You Saved? Or Deceived Thinking to be Saved? I Plead With You, Examine Yourself!
There is nothing more urgent, more important, more vital for any man, woman or child here on earth than to ascertain if he or she has truly become right with God, if truly saving faith has come upon the soul. For surely the costs are too great, far too great to be cast off in apathy and indifference. As the Lord, Christ, Jesus Himself declares in Matthew 16:26: "For what does a man profit, if ...
Are You Saved? Or Deceived Thinking to be Saved? I Plead With You, Examine Yourself!
There is nothing more urgent, more important, more vital for any man, woman or child here on earth than to ascertain if he or she has truly become right with God, if truly saving faith has come upon the soul. For surely the costs are too great, far too great to be cast off in apathy and indifference. As the Lord, Christ, Jesus Himself declares in Matthew 16:26: "For what does a man profit, if ...
O If You Value Your Soul, Dismiss it Not Lightly! Examine Yourself!
How many professors of Christian religion today have lulled themselves to sleep of the state of their own souls? The great majority of professors are content to have grasped a certain degree of spirituality as to not give the slightest care about true and genuine conversion, true saving faith. Whether or not they really have saving, regenerating faith in Christ. What a frightening reality would it be, come judgment day when many a professor on earth ...
O If You Value Your Soul, Dismiss it Not Lightly! Examine Yourself!
How many professors of Christian religion today have lulled themselves to sleep of the state of their own souls? The great majority of professors are content to have grasped a certain degree of spirituality as to not give the slightest care about true and genuine conversion, true saving faith. Whether or not they really have saving, regenerating faith in Christ. What a frightening reality would it be, come judgment day when many a professor on earth ...
Reasons Why Michael Jackson’s Life & Death Matter
Last week, Tim Challies, posted a blog article concerning Michael Jackson, his life, legacy and death. Tim opened his article with this, So the king is dead. What a sad end to a sad life; a pathetic end to a pathetic life (by which I mean to use pathetic in its true sense as “arousing pity and sympathy). I don’t know that I have ever seen, in one man, such a combination of self-love and self-loathing, ...
Reasons Why Michael Jackson’s Life & Death Matter
Last week, Tim Challies, posted a blog article concerning Michael Jackson, his life, legacy and death. Tim opened his article with this, So the king is dead. What a sad end to a sad life; a pathetic end to a pathetic life (by which I mean to use pathetic in its true sense as “arousing pity and sympathy). I don’t know that I have ever seen, in one man, such a combination of self-love and self-loathing, ...
Do you CONFESS Christ?—At ALL Costs?
There is no true confession where there is not a changed spirit and a transformed life, or rather the confession is such as shall suffice to condemn the man out of his own mouth, and send him out from God’s presence a revealed pretender. My dear brethren and sisters in Christ, you members of this church, I ask you to put it to your consciences, Do you confess Christ in your business? You working men, do you ...
Do you CONFESS Christ?—At ALL Costs?
There is no true confession where there is not a changed spirit and a transformed life, or rather the confession is such as shall suffice to condemn the man out of his own mouth, and send him out from God’s presence a revealed pretender. My dear brethren and sisters in Christ, you members of this church, I ask you to put it to your consciences, Do you confess Christ in your business? You working men, do you ...
I Am Ashamed of My Stupidity!
Were there but such clear and deep impressions upon our own souls of those glorious things which we daily preach, oh what a change would it make in our sermons, and in our private course of life! Oh what a miserable thing it is to the Church and to themselves, that men must preach of heaven and hell, before they soundly believe that there are such things, or have felt the weight of the doctrines which ...
I Am Ashamed of My Stupidity!
Were there but such clear and deep impressions upon our own souls of those glorious things which we daily preach, oh what a change would it make in our sermons, and in our private course of life! Oh what a miserable thing it is to the Church and to themselves, that men must preach of heaven and hell, before they soundly believe that there are such things, or have felt the weight of the doctrines which ...
“Is Christ Your Lord?”
I've been meaning to post this for a while now since the past week. A.W. Pink puts it so plainly and powerfully, what it means to be actually and genuinely converted; what it truly means to be saved; what it means to be a genuine Christian. I commend this short work to... Those who are seeking Christ; Those who are in Christ; Those who are apart from Christ and still are in the world. Dear loved ones, make your calling ...
“Is Christ Your Lord?”
I've been meaning to post this for a while now since the past week. A.W. Pink puts it so plainly and powerfully, what it means to be actually and genuinely converted; what it truly means to be saved; what it means to be a genuine Christian. I commend this short work to... Those who are seeking Christ; Those who are in Christ; Those who are apart from Christ and still are in the world. Dear loved ones, make your calling ...