“I hold that the covenant of grace can only be broken by those members of it who were not determined by God before the foundation of the world to inherit eternal life. For those who were so determined to that eternal salvation, the covenant of grace is a slab of titanium fifty feet thick.”
Toppling the Cosplay Satan
Introduction: There is always some crazy story to write about, isn't there? So over the last few weeks, this happened. A Satanist group arranged to have a Satanist display erected in the Iowa ...
By Prophet Bards Foretold 3
Gold in the Genealogies: Sermon Video Introduction: The texts we are going to look at today are the genealogies of Christ, and other passages related to them, but the theme of this message ...
The Grace of Covenant Keeping
“The grace of covenant-keeping is not to be confounded with the terms or stipulations of the covenant. A man whose wife dies is free to marry another, and he is to exhibit the same fidelity to each wife. That doesn’t make the two women into one woman.”
On Authority, Order, and Equality within the Godhead
Bumped to the top so that people can follow the comments/answers. I had made a comment on Twitter that no one had registered their concerns here. The problem with that comment is that I had forgotten to turn the comments on. The fault was entirely mine, but there was no guile in it—just incompetence. I …
Keep Plugging Away . . .
Faith Heeds
“I hold that faith was required, and it has always been the characteristic of true faith that it obeys. The only route to the work of obedience required in the garden (staying away from the tree) was to trust God, believing Him. True faith and works of obedience are never in opposition.”
Content Cluster Muster [12-14-23]
So Then . . .: That’s the Good Stuff: And more here. A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: About Time: HT: Samuel Cherubin: And more here. Peter Mork Monsted Some Friends in Montana: New Church Near Glacier National Park Earlier this year, 4-5 households joined together to form Christ Canyon Fellowship in Northwest …
God Gracious, All the Time
“Obedience was required of Adam, but it was required in the context of grace. For a groom to turn to his bride right after the ‘you may kiss the bride’ part, jab. his palm with his forefinger and demand fidelity from her now would be grotesque. But to say this, as I do, doesn’t mean that I believe that her fidelity is somehow optional.”
Christian Nationalism: The Movie
Introduction: This was inevitable, I suppose. Rob Reiner financed and produced a movie called God & Country, a movie to warn us all about the impending threat called Christian nationalism. This somehow constituted a compelling invitation to erstwhile conservatives like David French and Russell Moore to clamber on board in order to help the secularists …