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  • The Reality of Living Before God

    from Burk Parsons Apr 20, 2018 Category: Articles

    I have a good friend who thinks I am too old-fashioned. Through all the years we’ve known each other, he has never ceased to remind me of his observation. And while I certainly try to maintain an age-appropriate outlook on life, I must admit that my old-fashioned tendencies too often get the best of me. Although it does not seem old-fashioned to me in the least, when asking for a woman’s hand in marriage, I still think it is appropriate for a man first to speak with the father of the woman he hopes to marry prior to speaking with the woman.   Keep Reading

  • Whitefield’s Sin Exposing Spotlight

    from Steven Lawson Apr 18, 2018 Category: Articles

    Whitefield was convinced that any presentation of the gospel must begin by exposing the listener's sin and his dire need for salvation. This necessitated the preacher's confronting his hearers' rebellion against God and warning of the eternal consequences of their rejection. Keep Reading

  • God Is Incomprehensible

    from R.C. Sproul Apr 16, 2018 Category: Articles

    What can we know about God? That's the most basic question of theology, for what we can know about God and whether we can know anything about Him at all determine the scope and content of our study. Here we must consider the teaching of the greatest theologians in history, all of whom have affirmed the "incomprehensibility of God." By using the term incomprehensible, they are not referring to something we are unable to comprehend or know at all. Theologically speaking, to say God is incomprehensible is not to say that God is utterly unknowable. It is to say that none of us can comprehend God exhaustively.   Keep Reading

  • The Divine Foundation of Authority

    from R.C. Sproul Apr 13, 2018 Category: Articles

    "You're out!" "I'm safe!" "Out!" "Safe!" "Out!" "It's my ball, and it's my bat, and I say that I'm safe." This is how we settled disputes over plays in our pickup baseball games played without the benefit of a referee or umpire. When a disputed play could not be resolved through reason or through yelling, the one who possessed the equipment usually determined the outcome. It was a child's game in which might made right. It was the nascent expression of the cynical statement: "He who owns the gold, rules." Keep Reading

  • Your God Is Too Small

    from Derek Thomas Apr 11, 2018 Category: Articles

    Your God Is Too Small is the title of the book written by J.B. Phillips, and in some ways, the expression reflects the problems that lay behind the plaintive cry of abandonment felt by Judah’s exiles during the sixth century BC.   Keep Reading

  • Deep Theology

    from Sinclair Ferguson Apr 09, 2018 Category: Articles

    Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be within hours of death—not as an elderly person, but as someone condemned to die although innocent of every crime? What would you want to say to those who know and love you best? You would, surely, tell them how much you loved them. You might hope you could give them some comfort and reassurance—despite the nightmare you yourself were facing. You would want to open your heart and say the things that were most important to you.   Keep Reading

  • Are There Degrees of Sin?

    from R.C. Sproul Apr 06, 2018 Category: Articles

    Historically speaking, both Roman Catholicism and Protestantism have understood that there are degrees of sin. The Roman Catholic church makes a distinction between mortal and venial sin. The point of that distinction is that there are some sins so gross, heinous, and serious that the actual commission of those sins is mortal in the sense that it kills the grace of justification that resides in the soul of the believer. Keep Reading

  • God’s Sovereignty and Our Responsibility

    from Derek Thomas Apr 04, 2018 Category: Articles

    God is sovereign in creation, providence, redemption, and judgment. That is a central assertion of Christian belief and especially in Reformed theology. God is King and Lord of all. To put this another way: nothing happens without God’s willing it to happen, willing it to happen before it happens, and willing it to happen in the way that it happens. Put this way, it seems to say something that is expressly Reformed in doctrine. But at its heart, it is saying nothing different from the assertion of the Nicene Creed: “I believe in God, the Father Almighty.” To say that God is sovereign is to express His almightiness in every area.   Keep Reading

  • Hearts Set Aflame with Certainty of the Resurrection

    from R.C. Sproul Apr 01, 2018 Category: Articles

    The life of Jesus follows a general pattern of movement from humiliation to exaltation. The movement is not strictly linear, however, as it is interspersed with vignettes of contrast. The birth narrative contains both ignominy and majesty. His public ministry attracts praise and scorn, welcome and rejection, cries of “Hosanna!” and “Crucify Him!” Nearing the shadow of death, He exhibited the translucent breakthrough of transfiguration.   Keep Reading

  • Resurrection and Justification

    from R.C. Sproul Mar 31, 2018 Category: Articles

    How is the resurrection of Christ linked to the idea of justification in the New Testament? To answer this question, we must first explore the use and meaning of the term justification in the New Testament. Keep Reading
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