Daily Edition: The OPC Republication Report (Updated)
Past decades have seen an emergence of a Lutheran-Reformed hybrid theology in which the Law/Gospel distinction is expressed more as a dichotomy between works and faith (Lutheran) rather than the distinction between the Old administration of the Covenant of Grace and the New administration (Reformed). Additionally, some have begun teaching that the Mosaic Covenant is a republication of the Covenant of Works made with Adam--not simply that the same Law is present in both covenants, but that "in some sense" Israel is brought into a Covenant of Works in which it should merit the land of promise.
John Calvin on Our Invincible Weapons
"We are really and effectually supplied with invincible weapons to subdue the flesh, if we partake as we ought of the efficacy of Christ’s death." - John Calvin
Sermon: The Parable of the Dragnet
"Church discipline is a warning of the end of the age before the end of the age." - Pastor Peter VanDoodewaard
God's Gracious Giving
“The rich, equally with the poor, should remember that none of the things which they have will do them good, unless God grant them the use of them” - John Calvin
Daily Edition: The Lord's Day Evening
In past generations, the common practice of biblical churches was to bookend the Lord's Day with worship: morning and evening. While this practice has largely fallen into neglect and is often portrayed as an archaic legalism, the more confessionally minded Reformed churches tend to continue the practice.
Christ's Body for You
Now we tack on "God's Promises are True" and the little sinners in our family smile.
Our Created Nature: Above All We Are Religious
Our Created Nature: embodied, rational, voluntary, emotional, social, communicative, and above all, religious.
Calvin on Love, Righteousness, and Merit
Love assuredly is the chief commandment in the Law, and since the Spirit of God trains us to love, it cannot but be a cause of righteousness in us, though that righteousness even in the saints is defective, and therefore of no value as a ground of merit.
Calvin on Justification in the Epistle of James
"James will not allow any to be regarded as justified who are destitute of good works." - John Calvin
Treating The Benefits We’ve Already Recieved As Having No Value
Any talk of Christians being “totally depraved” is a mere repetition of Peter’s error: treating the benefits we have already received as if they are of no value.
A Strange, Numb Silence
By sight, today seems like just another day, and so we imagine tomorrow is too. But faith in God's promise makes the heart long for tomorrow, the day of light and gladness.
James Fisher 1753: "How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?"
Q. 22.: How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man? A.: Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.
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We need not reinvent Christianity or carve out ever-smaller enclaves to prove our faithfulness. We do not need to imitate the liberal order’s obsession with identity and control. We can return to nature, heritage, tradition, fathers, and our faith. Sectarian comfort is a false security for a people who have forgotten how to receive life from God’s hand. It will take Christian courage in an age of liberals and sects to grow deeper roots and provide a more secure and fruitful future.
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