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RED LETTER NONSENSE by Pastor Kevin DeYoung
Just as crucially, if all Scripture is breathed out by God, then there is a unity to be found across the pages of the Bible. Without minimizing the differences of genre and human authorship, we should nevertheless approach the Bible expecting theological...
THE ONLY WAY by Pastor Scott Henry
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). When it comes to religion, most people in our society think there are many roads leading to heaven. They say if a person is sincere and lives a moral...
HOW TO BECOME A STRONG CHRISTIAN by Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We have to spend time in understanding and studying…[the] great doctrines of the Christian faith. It is only as we do so that we shall become strong, and become men, and be able to take the stronger meat, and so grow, and be powerful and able to teach others. There is...
LOOK TO CHRIST, NOT TO SELF By C. H. Spurgeon
“It is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, ‘Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no...
FACEBOOK and THE 7th COMMANDMENT by Kenneth Wieske
A woman walked into my study a few days ago. She was nearly naked, wearing only a bra and panties. There is just one woman in the world who, while dressed like this, can be around me: my wife. But the woman who walked into my study a few days ago was not my wife. I...
The Marks of The Church
If you move to a new town, you have to find a new church. The search for a new church can be difficult and frustrating. If you pick up the Yellow Pages and look under “Church,” you are likely to confront a bewildering array of possibilities. Perhaps you already have...
TRUE REPENTANCE
“From that time on Jesus began to preach, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near’” (v. 17). - Matthew 4:12-22 Both Matthew and Mark record that Jesus’ first sermons were a summons to repentance. The Greek word for repentance is metanoia, which comes from two Greek...
Sweet Forgiveness
"The forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace" (Ephesians 1:7). Could there be a sweeter word in any language than that word "forgiveness" when it sounds in a guilty sinner's ear, like the joyful notes of liberation to the captive Israelite?...
THE LAW & THE GOSPEL
In order to recover the sufficiency of Scripture we must once again learn to distinguish the Law and the Gospel as the "two words" of Scripture. For the Reformers, it was not enough to believe in inerrancy. Since Rome also had a high view of Scripture in theory, the...
The Reformed Church
The Reformed Church in the United States (RCUS) is a communion of Christian churches in the Reformed tradition. We stand on the great Reformation principles of Scripture alone, Christ alone, Grace alone, Faith alone, and Glory to God alone. Established in the 1700s...