The gospel of Jesus Christ is the good news that guilty sinners are reconciled to a holy and just God through the perfect life, sacrificial death, bodily resurrection and ascension of Jesus to the right hand of God where he sits even now interceding for his people. That’s a fairly packed sentence. But it only […]
Against Multiple Services
I do not believe that churches should have multiple morning services on the Lord’s day for their congregants to choose from (ex. 9:30, 10:30, and 11:30). My main reasoning is two fold: 1) it unnecessarily divides the body; and 2) it forces the services into a cookie cutter time constraint. I will address these two […]
Grace Acknowledged
“When I stand before the throne Dress’d in beauty not my own, When I see Thee as Thou art, Love Thee with unsinning heart, Then, Lord, shall I fully know – Not till then – how much I owe. Chosen not for good in me, Waken’d up from wrath to flee, Hidden in the Saviour’s […]
All Due to Grace
All that I was, my sin my guilt, My death was all mine own; All that I am, I owe to Thee, My gracious God, alone. The evil of my former state Was mine, and only mine; The good in which I now rejoice Is Thine, and only Thine. The darkness of my […]
Covenant Security
My God, the covenant of Thy love Abides for ever sure; And in its matchless grace I feel My happiness secure. Philip Doddridge, 1775 Covenant theology is a concept nearly foreign to many American Christians today. We are covenant illiterate, and it is unfortunate to be honest. While theologians can certainly get into the bottomless […]