Category: Church Blog
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A Perfect Church? Not in This Life
R. Scott Clark, D. Phil., Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Westminster Seminary in California ©2007 Westminster Seminary California All rights reserved.[ref]First published in Evangelium, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (Jan/Feb 2005).[/ref] In a recent book, church growth guru George Barna seems to suggest the end or irrelevance of the local congregation. He speaks…
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New Bible Study Resources
I’m looking forward to receiving the following books to be used for our Bible studies, catechism and membership classes. Available by August 2011 from ReformedFellowship.net. Click on each book image to download a preview of the Introduction and Chapter 1.
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Authority to Separate Itself from Error and Unbelief
Excerpted from Dr. Robert L. Reymond, A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998), 890-1. I will add the marks of a true church to Dr. Reymond’s reasons for separation from a church. Article 29 of the 1561 Belgic Confession of Faith says these about what a true church must be: The…
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Reformed Pinoy Rules and Membership
So the Admins may approve an applicant who does not fully adhere to any of these confessions, but are sincerely desiring to learn, and perhaps travel down the path to Reformed doctrine, worship and life. This has included people from different evangelical backgrounds in the process of being Reformed.
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Conform, Reform, or Leave?
The task of pointing a mainline denomination back to the historic Protestant Reformed faith is practically a mission of changing the course of the planets. You may be able to change your “local” church, but what about the whole denomination? I have no knowledge of any denomination who has gone down into the pit of…
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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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“Let’s Give a Clap Offering to the Lord!”
In the Bible, most of the clapping is for two things, both of which have nothing to do with “clap offerings” today.
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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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Some Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
How is the Christian to react to the death of Osama bin Laden after more than a decade of terror?
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A Good Friday Devotional
Print this devotional (PDF). Prayer (from the Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotion, edited by Arthur G. Bennett): My Father, Enlarge my heart, warm my affections, open my lips, Supply words that proclaim “Love lustres (shines) at Calvary.” There grace removes my burdens and heaps them on Thy Son, Made a…