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 […]
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 […]
Hardened Hearts, Fulfilled Prophecy
37 Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, 38 so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” 39 Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said, […]
Christ’s Strange Ways of Glory in Human Sickness; John 11:1-6
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4 But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness […]