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The Crisis of Not Listening
from W. Robert Godfrey Aug 17, 2018 Category: Articles
Psalm 81 is a remarkable and important psalm in the Psalter. This psalm of Asaph is more specific than many psalms about the original occasion for its composition. The formal occasion for writing this psalm was to celebrate a season of important religious festivals in Israel: “Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day” (v. 3). Only in the seventh month of the year do we find holy days at the new moon and the full moon. In the festivals of this month, we see Israel called to reflect on God’s great mercy to and care for her, and we see Israel called to remember and repent of her sins.
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Who Are God’s Covenant People?
from Sinclair Ferguson Aug 15, 2018 Category: Articles
God’s covenant commitment to His people, made in successive promise-bonds, forms the scaffolding within which He builds His church; its shape and growth are determined by it. But like a medieval cathedral, the church is built over centuries; and like a great book, its story is divided into chapters.
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Living Under Authority
from R.C. Sproul Aug 13, 2018 Category: Articles
As I read the scriptures, particularly the New Testament, there is a theme that recurs again and again regarding the Christian’s willingness to be in submission to various types of authority. Given the rebellious spirit of our age, that frightens me. It’s all too easy for us to get caught up in an attitude that will bring us into open defiance of the authority of God.
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Dignity, Faith, & Work
from R.C. Sproul Aug 10, 2018 Category: Articles
Charles Dickens began A Tale of Two Cities with the immortal lines: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” These words sound like a contradiction, dissonant to the ear, harsh to the brain. How could the times be both best and worst?
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$5 Friday: Calvinism, the Trinity, & God’s Glory
from Nathan W. Bingham Aug 10, 2018 Category: Articles
It's time for our weekly $5 Friday sale. This week's resources include such topics as God’s glory, Roman Catholicism, evangelism, Calvinism, Charles Spurgeon, church history, the Trinity, and more.
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God Never Forgets His Promises
from Derek Thomas Aug 08, 2018 Category: Articles
The entire life of Joseph is summarized in Genesis 50:20: “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.” The teenager we met at the beginning of the story is now over a hundred years old. His life has come full circle, and he is addressing his duplicitous brothers. Their actions, in selling him into slavery, had nothing but evil intent written all over it. Their malevolence can in no way be lessened by the knowledge that things did not turn out as they might have done. Truth is, God overruled their evil actions to accomplish a purpose that neither they nor Joseph could have fathomed. God brought good out of evil. In the words of the Westminster Confession, God in His providence “upholds, directs, disposes and governs all creatures, actions and things” to bring about a sovereignly pre-determined plan (5.1).
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The Holy Spirit’s Ministry
from Sinclair Ferguson Aug 06, 2018 Category: Articles
The Reformers placed tremendous stress on the gifts of the Spirit to the whole body of Christ. John Calvin himself has rightly been described as “the theologian of the Holy Spirit” (B.B. Warfield). Yet Reformed Christians always have been given a “bad press” for their views on the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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What’s So Great about Limited Atonement?
from Richard Phillips Aug 03, 2018 Category: Articles
I am writing to praise the doctrine of limited atonement because it so exalts the cross of Jesus Christ, which gained a full redemption for all those appointed by God to eternal life. But what is the cash value of this doctrine? Does it offer something to my Christian experience or is it just abstract theology? What’s so great about the doctrine of limited atonement?
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The Final Judgment and the Christian Life
from Steven Lawson Aug 01, 2018 Category: Articles
What happens to those who die while denying the truth of God in their lives? What will their rejection of the truth mean for them? Most people today do not want to think about the final judgment.
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The Imperfections of Perfectionism
from Stephen Nichols Jul 30, 2018 Category: Articles
B.B. Warfield's world, once he arrived at Princeton in 1887, was not very large at all. His house, the Old Hodge House, conveniently situated him next to Alexander Hall, which contained Princeton Seminary's dorm rooms and classrooms. Across the lawn stood Miller Chapel. His own well-stocked study — as editor of The Princeton Review he had a constant flow of books sent to him — could be supplemented by a short trip to the seminary's library. Yet, Warfield's impact belies this small world, stretching far beyond the tree-lined campus of Princeton.
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