Tag: catholic
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Welcome to a REFORMED CHURCH Study Guide
Why is your church called “Reformed”? Why is your worship so serious and so different? No Praise & Worship—just strange-sounding old songs? Why do you recite the Apostles’ Creed, and use catechisms and Latin words—are you Catholic? If you’re really curious, you ‘re all welcome to visit and ask questions. Better yet, you can join…
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Four Views of the Lord’s Supper
The Holy Spirit uses the communion service to increase our faith, to strengthen our faith, to confirm our faith. Thus through the communion service, we can have communion with the total person of Christ, including His body which was broken and His blood which was shed for our salvation.
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Daily Lent Devotionals: March 15
So if Jesus had brothers (and sisters), where were they as he was being put to death? And why would Jesus commend his mother to his disciple John, and not to them?
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Why Does Your Church Have Confession, Absolution, and Communion?
Roman Catholic stuff? For evangelicals, these three words conjure up a nightmare of a confessional, adoration of the host, and other forms of Roman Catholic sacerdotalism. James asked me about these things…
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Dinuguan: Yum-yum, But Wait…
The first three prohibitions of the Jerusalem Council concern food eaten at the table. Why then is sexual immorality included in this list of prohibitions, when all the others in the list pertain to table fellowship between Jews and Gentiles?
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Some Thoughts on the “Blessed” Pope John Paul II
With the beatification of Pope John Paul II, he is now called “Blessed” by the Roman church, declaring that it is “worthy of belief” that he is in heaven, having come to salvation, and is worthy to be “venerated.” This is the last step before canonization, the act by which the Roman church recognizes a deceased…
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The Athanasian Creed
This Creed is named after Athanasius (293-373 A.D.), the champion of orthodoxy over against Arian attacks upon the doctrine of the Trinity. Although Athanasius did not write this Creed and it is improperly named after him, the name persists because until the seventeenth century it was commonly ascribed to him. Another name for it is…
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The Son of God, Our King, Releases Satan’s Captives (Mark 5:1-20)
The Philippine Daily Inquirer reported on August 20, 2008 that about 25 students in a public high school in Calapan City, Mindoro province have suffered seizures and shortness of breath due to what the principal of the school has attributed to being “possessed by evil spirits.†…A mass was offered by a Catholic priest at…