Tag: Reformation

  • Survey of Church History

    Survey of Church History

    Many committed, knowledgeable believers still know little about the history of the church. As a result, they’re missing a testament to God’s steadfastness over the centuries. Now, a monumental new teaching series sheds crucial light on church history, demonstrating God’s promise to build and preserve his church so that “the gates of hell will not…

  • Happy Halloween! Five Ways to Spook Your Evangelical Friends

    Happy Halloween! Five Ways to Spook Your Evangelical Friends

    This Saturday, October 31, you can really spook your evangelical friends. On this dark, ghoulish night 498 years ago, a Roman Catholic priest turned zombie named Martin Luther posted his 95 Heresies on the door of the haunted Wittenburg Castle. Since that night, its halls and rooms have been filled with the ghastly shrieks and apparitions…

  • The Righteous and the Wicked

    The Righteous and the Wicked

      Psalm 1 (text); Jeremiah 17:5-8; Matthew 7:13-14 May 24, 2015* [wpdm_package id=’12603′]   The Psalter is an extremely important part of the church with its prayers, songs, emotions, and doctrine. During the early church and the sixteenth century Protestant Reformation, the Psalms were almost exclusively sung in the churches. The Book of Psalms is…

  • Trumpeting the Gospel of the Reformation

    The good news is that Christ is the merciful, pre-eminent watchman. He knew judgment was coming upon sinners, and he sounded the gospel trumpet of forgiveness. But he himself provided the way of forgiveness when he took the blood of sinners upon his own head.

  • Bulletin for November 3, 2013: Trumpeting the Gospel of the Reformation

    Without any merit of mine, out of mere grace God grants and imputes to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ. (Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 60)

  • Ten Reasons Why We Don’t Have Testimonies in Worship

    Ten Reasons Why We Don’t Have Testimonies in Worship

    Testimonies are popular because preaching Christ and the gospel has become not just unnecessary, but “boring” to many evangelicals.

  • “What is a Reformed Church?”

    “What is a Reformed Church?”

    A Reformed church is Christian, Protestant, Confessional, not Catholic, “dead, traditional, or ritualistic.”

  • God is Our Refuge, Strength and Help

    God is Our Refuge, Strength and Help

    What are we to fear when Immanuel, God with us, dwells among us? Nothing! Not even wars and the worst economic crisis in history are to shake our foundations… In that heavenly city of God, there will be no more wars and no more economic crises.

  • Reformed Worship Introduction: “On the Necessity of Reforming the Church—Today!”

    Reformed Worship Introduction: “On the Necessity of Reforming the Church—Today!”

    For a printer-friendly PDF copy, click here. Reformed Worship Series: Introduction • Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 In 1543, the great French and Genevan Reformer John Calvin wrote a treatise addressed to Emperor Charles V entitled, “On the Necessity of Reforming the Church,” wherein he discusses the two things…

  • The Ancient Path to True Worship (Jeremiah 6:16)

    The Ancient Path to True Worship (Jeremiah 6:16)

    The people of Judah faced another major crossroad in their history. Which road should they take? Jeremiah directed them to the good path of salvation – the ancient path of true worship. He warned them that the other path leads to destruction.