Tag: reformed
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Third Anniversary Service and Fellowship
We thank the Lord for sustaining through these first three years. We will have our Lord’s Day worship service followed by a luncheon fellowship on September 18, 2011 at 10 am.
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Hebrews 6:4-6: Christians Losing Their Salvation?
Ligonier Ministries’ Tabletalk magazine has a series of devotionals on Hebrews 6:4-6, “one of the most difficult passages in all of Scripture,” which “has often been used with the attempt to prove that genuine Christians can lose their salvation.”
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Two Prayers, Two Answers, and an Ominous Ending
How did God hear Hezekiah’s prayers for forgiveness and salvation? Only through the fulfillment of God’s promise to his father David: the Son of David who would sit on his father’s throne forever, whose kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom. Jesus the Messiah would teach us that he is the One who saves his people from…
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Why Trust in Egypt?
Isaiah 19:23-25 anticipates the time when Assyria and Egypt will represent all people from all nations who will turn to God. All three nations will be connected by a “highway†through which God comes to his people and by which he leads his people to himself. Jesus, is the “new and living way†to God’s…
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The Glorious Eternal Kingdom of the Lord
Isaiah 11:9 precludes sinners in the age to come. No one “shall hurt or destroy in all my holy mountainâ€â€”the new earth—deeds that only sinners are able to do. And if “the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the seaâ€â€”indicative of universal righteousness—during the millennium, how could…
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A Better Paradise Restored
A river of humanity will defy gravity to worship in this lofty temple in heaven, “all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord’†(Isaiah 2:2-3).
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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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A Sinner Before a Holy God: “Woohoo!” or “Woe!”
Isaiah’s encounter with God is unlike that of most evangelicals—unbridled irreverence in sensual hip-swaying, discordant and noisy music, woohooing, shouting and clapping. For Isaiah, a direct encounter with God meant death and judgment. Why would an encounter with God evoke such terror? What did Isaiah see and hear?
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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…