Posted in Christian Culture, The Gospel on Oct 27th, 2008 4 Comments »
**UPDATE**
Below you will find that I added a few choice quotes from the first chapter of Christless Christianity.
You can imagine my surprise today as I read my hometown newspaper, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and I ran across an advertisement for Michael Horton’s new book, Christless Christianity. (Actually, I knew it was coming because the White [...]
Posted in Puritans on Oct 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
The Puritan Obadiah Sedgwick, in the highly commendable work Christ’s Counsel to His Languishing Church, gives 7 general directions concerning our attempt to discern truth from false doctrine.
How are we to know truth from error in matters of doctrine?
…true doctrine may be discerned from false doctrines:
By the unity of them
…There is but one way (said [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Law/Gospel on Oct 19th, 2008 7 Comments »
The assertion made in the last post was that Jesus in Matthew 5:17-20 taught that there was no aspect of God’s Old Testament Law that has been abolished or nullified, even in this day. In other words, Jesus taught the entire church of God to obey the OT Law in it’s entirety, and He condemns [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Law/Gospel on Oct 15th, 2008 30 Comments »
My pastor at Berean Baptist Church Powder Springs just finished preaching through Matthew 5:17-20, spending three full sermons on these few verses. The first of these sermons is online, and the others will follow shortly. I’d highly recommend them to you.
But as I have contemplated his preaching through this text, I’ve formulated a few [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Puritans on Oct 9th, 2008 14 Comments »
Obadiah Sedwick, in his most excellent work Christ’s Counsel to His Languishing Church, an exposition of Revelation 3:2-3, lists 8 causes why Christians find their love of Christ growing cold. They had such an effect on me that I list them below (edited) for your edification.
“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Oct 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Justification Vindicated
by Robert Trail
Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 96
Publisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN#: 9790851518182
Continuing my study of the imputed righteousness of Christ, which is of course at the very heart of the biblical gospel, I picked up what was said to be a little classic in Trail’s Justification Vindicated.
What I found here was a pleasantly [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Theology on Oct 2nd, 2008 5 Comments »
Growing up in church I can never remember being specifically taught about Christian liberalism and what exactly it referred to. Generally, I understood that a liberal was someone who didn’t take the Bible literally; someone who didn’t believe that the text of scripture carried full authority. All I knew is that they were the bad [...]
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