"God preserves, continues, and completes this work by the hearing and reading of the gospel, by meditation on it, by its exhortations, threats, and promises." - Canons of Dort
Read MoreWalter Marshall on Faith in Christ /
"Therefore, though we receive a perfect Christ by faith, yet the measure and degree of enjoying him is imperfect; and we hope still, so long as we are in this world, to enjoy him in a higher degree of perfection than we have done." - Walter Marshall
Read MoreBavinck on The Image of God and Creation /
"The image of God is much too rich for it to be fully realized in a single human being, however richly gifted that human being may be." - Bavinck
Read MorePredestination Not An All-Encompassing Principle /
"God's predestinating or determining will is an important element in the Reformed system, but it is not an all-encompassing principle." - Willem J. van Asselt
Read MoreCalvin on Science and Sight /
"He does not call us up into heaven, he only proposes things which lie open before our eyes." - John Calvin
Read MoreCalvin on Baptism in 1 Peter 3:21 /
We then cannot otherwise derive benefit from baptism, than by having all our thoughts fixed on the death and the resurrection of Christ.
Read MoreUrisnus on Fruits and True Faith /
"Fruits distinguish true faith from that faith which is merely historical and temporary" — Zacharias Ursinus
Read MoreDaily 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.
Read MoreJohn 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
Read MoreSermon: 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
Read MoreGod'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
Read MoreDaily 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.
Read MoreChrist's Body for You /
Now we tack on "God's Promises are True" and the little sinners in our family smile.
Read MoreOur Created Nature: Above All We Are Religious /
Our Created Nature: embodied, rational, voluntary, emotional, social, communicative, and above all, religious.
Read MoreCalvin 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.
Read MoreCalvin on God's Faithfulness /
"Let God be true, and every man a liar." - Romans 3:4
Read MoreCalvin 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
Read MoreTreating 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreJames 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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