Tag: reformed
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Which of the Ten Commandments Did Adam Break?
When Adam ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which of the Decalogue did he break?
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Reformed: More Than the 5 Points of Jesus and the Apostles
So many people have weighed in the issue of what is Reformed Christianity, or what’s a Reformed church, or who’s Reformed. About four years ago, John MacArthur delivered a scathing attack on Reformed amillennialism entitled, “Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist is a Premillennialist.” Worse, his rant was a bad misrepresentation of amillennialism in a conference where…
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Qualities of a Gospel-Driven Mission Work
The emergent movement is the clearest example today of what Paul calls in our text as an appeal that “[springs] from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive… with words of flattery,†all with the intention to please man and not to please God.” This is not any different from the “seeker-sensitive†movement that…
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Sermon Series on Biblical Mountains
Last year, from April 11 to November 7, 2010, I preached a series of sermons on Biblical Mountains. Join us in an exciting pilgrimage through redemptive history from the Garden of Eden in Genesis to Har-Magedon in Revelation, full of hills and valleys, rough and plain places, forests and deserts, blessings and afflictions.
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The Impact of Effective Witness
Therefore,we must never think that there is no justice. In this world, we frequently see that murderers, rapists, plunderers, liars, adulterers, thieves and robbers go scot-free. We become so furious when we see them get acquitted for crimes they obviously committed merely because of a technicality, political connections, or celebrity status. Isaiah 59:17-20; 1 Thessalonians…
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Thankful for a Church Faithful in the Last Days
Together with most of the other New Testament writers, Paul affirms that the last days were inaugurated in the first-century A.D. when Christ first came down from heaven. If this is true, then like the Thessalonians, we are to be equally steadfast and patient in our hope for Christ’s return. Isaiah 42:1-3; Acts 17:1-9; 1…
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New Series: 1 Thessalonians–Faithful Living Before Rapture Part 1
“Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.”—1 Thessalonians 4:17 Paul’s two letters to the church in Thessalonica were meant to encourage them in the wake of the unexpected deaths…
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“She Gave Birth to A Male Child” Whom the Dragon Wanted to Devour
God will nourish and preserve you in your pilgrimage through this wilderness of sin. He nourishes your souls when you read and hear the preaching of his Word and when you partake of the Lord’s Supper. These are your weapons against Satan’s raging flood of wicked lies and deceptions through false teachers and others who…
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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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Armageddon: Mother of All Wars or Mount of Assembly?
Armageddon is not a military mother of all wars in Megiddo. Armageddon is Har-Magedon, the Mount of Assembly where Satanic forces gather to make a final assault to destroy God‘s church represented by Mount Zion. Scripture Readings: Zechariah 14:1-9; 1Thessalonians 5:1-11; Revelation 16:1-16; Revelation 16:12-16 (text) November 8, 2010 • Download PDF sermon In the…