Conrad Mbewe: The Cessation of the Gift of the Apostle
This is from the 2024 Cessationist Conference:
Conrad Mbewe: The Cessation of the Gift of the Apostle
This is from the 2024 Cessationist Conference:
Importance of Public Worship
But in vain do they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commands of men (Matthew 15:9, LSB).Public worship, I am bold to say, has always been one mark of God’s servants. As a general rule, man is a social being and does not like to live separate from…
“Very God and Very Man, Yet One Christ”: One Person, Two Natures
The incarnation was not the relocation, an act of moving to a new place, by the Word from heaven to earth. It was the assumption, the taking and uniting to himself, of a created human nature by the eternal Son of the eternal Father.
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The Trinity: Understanding the Person-Nature Distinction
The one God is confessed throughout the Scriptures, and this God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, distinct in Persons, the Son from the Father and the Spirit from the Father and the Son.
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MacArthur on the Origin of Evil
Philosophers struggle to explain the origin of evil. One thing is certain: God is not its author, creator, or efficient cause. Everything He created was good. Evil was no part of His creation. Who then created evil? No one. Evil is neither substance, b…
MacArthur on the Origin of Evil
Philosophers struggle to explain the origin of evil. One thing is certain: God is not its author, creator, or efficient cause. Everything He created was good. Evil was no part of His creation. Who then created evil? No one. Evil is neither substance, b…
Eternal Processions: What It Means for the Son to Be Begotten
The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is the greatest mystery revealed in Holy Scripture. This is the teaching that there is one God who exists in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is a profound and wonderful mystery. But where do these names come from, and why does each Person have them? Where […]
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Jellyfish Christianity
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires (2 Timothy 4:3).The consequences of this widespread dislike to doct…
Simplicity and Analogy: How We Talk About God
What is God like, the one who exceeds the greatness and grandeur of the world we inhabit? When we begin to ask these questions, we quickly acknowledge that we are finite creatures contemplating the infinite God.
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John MacArthur, RC Sproul, and NT Wright: The Doctrine of Justification
This video made by Bill Roach looks into what N.T. Wright believes about the doctrine of justification with a response from R.C. Sproul and John MacArthur:
John MacArthur, RC Sproul, and NT Wright: The Doctrine of Justification
This video made by Bill Roach looks into what N.T. Wright believes about the doctrine of justification with a response from R.C. Sproul and John MacArthur:
Book Review: Delighting in the Old Testament by Jason S. Derouchie
The Old Testament makes up 75% of the Bible, yet there are many Christians who want nothing to do with it. Sure, they might read the Psalms and Proverbs, but they ignore the other 37 books. We have some pastors who say Christians need to unhitch …
Book Review: Delighting in the Old Testament by Jason S. Derouchie
The Old Testament makes up 75% of the Bible, yet there are many Christians who want nothing to do with it. Sure, they might read the Psalms and Proverbs, but they ignore the other 37 books. We have some pastors who say Christians need to unhitch …
Is the New Testament Historically Reliable? My Conversation with Rebecca McLaughlin
I recently was a guest on Rebecca McLaughlin’s podcast, Confronting Christianity. We had a fun time discussing a wide range of issues related to the historical reliability of the New Testament, even delving a bit into my forthcoming Oxford volume…
Mike Riccardi: The Work of the Holy Spirit Today
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Scott Aniol: The Cessation of the Gift of Tongues
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The Old Testament Points Us to Christ
Christ is the sum and substance of the Old Testament. To Him the earliest promises pointed in the days of Adam, and Enoch, and Noah, and Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. To Him every sacrifice pointed in the ceremonial worship appointed at Mount Sinai. O…
The Old Testament Points Us to Christ
Christ is the sum and substance of the Old Testament. To Him the earliest promises pointed in the days of Adam, and Enoch, and Noah, and Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. To Him every sacrifice pointed in the ceremonial worship appointed at Mount Sinai. O…
Josh Buice: The Gift of Prophecy and Why the Church Should Cease to Use the ‘God Told Me’ Language
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Book Review: A Biblical Theology of Climate Change by Virgil Walker and Darrell B Harrison
Climate change is one of the hottest issues in the world today. It is being discussed in the classroom, the office, our homes, and even in our churches. There is no escape from this topic. Seems like everything going on in the world is blamed on climat…
Prayer is the Soul’s Sincere Desire
Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed; The motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, the falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, when none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can […]
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Prayer is the Soul’s Sincere Desire
Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed; The motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, the falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, when none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can […]
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Justin Peters: The Cessation of the Gift of Healing
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Christ is a Complete, Almighty, Perpetual, and Unwearied Savior
Christ is a Savior. He did not come on earth to be a conqueror, or a philosopher, or a mere teacher of morality. He came to save sinners. He came to do that which man could never do for himself – to do that which money and learning can never obtain – t…
A Group of Pastors Discuss Creeds and Confessions
The pastors of Kerrville Bible Church has a discussion on their podcast regarding creeds, confessions, and catechisms. They raised some issues I have had with them which includes holding a creed and confession as sacred as the Bible. This video is audi…
A Group of Pastors Discuss Creeds and Confessions
The pastors of Kerrville Bible Church has a discussion on their podcast regarding creeds, confessions, and catechisms. They raised some issues I have had with them which includes holding a creed and confession as sacred as the Bible. This video is audi…
Ordo Amoris
Though we should love all things that exist, we ought not love all things equally. Rather, we ought to love things in accordance with their nature. How great is a thing? That is precisely how much you ought to love it.
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Sleeping with the Gospels
Not many Christians carry around Bibles anymore these days.
In my younger years, I can remember that it was standard fare to carry your Bible to church. Even in college, we would take our Bibles to the evening gathering of our campus fellowship. To hav…
Christianity Begins with God
Christianity has a different set of presuppositions. It begins with a God who is there, who is the infinite-personal God, who has made man in his image. He has made man to be the verbalizer in the area of propositions in his horizontal communication to…