Introduction Why Church history? Why history? Why does what happened 1,500 years ago, or 500 years ago, or 50 years matter to us today? Who cares? What’s the point? These are questions and thoughts that many modern evangelicals really think. Maybe some of you kind of feel the same way as we begin this Church […]
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Fill the Organs with Cement
Introduction Here we are on the final Lord’s Day of October, the year of our Lord 2021, and God has been very good to us. We have received grace upon grace through the Lord Jesus and for that, we give thanks. As you know, we have been preaching on Exclusive Psalmody and have also talked […]
Baptism Now Saves You: Baptism as a Means of Grace
Introduction What if I told you that Baptism now saves you? How would you react? Would you call me a heretic? Would it make you nervous? This is the thought experiment I ran this week online. Of course as people act so often online, I was immediately accused of being everything from a Lutheran to […]
How to Make Tyrants’ Knees Knock: A Word About the Singing at Our God & Government Conference
One of the reasons the modern church has failed to apply the Word of God to the nations and to civil governments is because the modern church has, by and large, stopped singing the Psalms. To be fair, most modern churches did not actively make the decision to stop singing Psalms, it’s that the Psalter […]
Your Only Comfort in Life and Death
Hope Baptist Catechism, Part I, Question IV Q: What is your only comfort in life and death? A: That I am not my own, but belong, body and soul, in life and death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins and preserves me in such a way that […]