Tarheel Covenant Blog

"The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour [i. e., noon]...

I have had discussions with both Mormons and Catholics about Romans 3:28: " For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from the w...

One of the consistent errors that mark cults is their perversion of salvation to some form of works righteousness. This is true of the large...

"To Jesus Christ, to His account, as the one now responsible for the sins of those in whose stead He died, God imputed our sins. Althou...

False teachers avoid accountability to the Scriptures by claiming that they received their false doctrines directly from God. That is why He...

"The truth is that the faith by which alone the elect sinner is justified is a knowing and trusting that renounce works and working fo...

"The Papists will well-enough confess that we be justified by faith, howbeit they add that it is but partly . But that gloss marreth al...

 "Faith - true faith - always has an object, and this object is the crucified and risen Christ, as revealed in the Gospel. Thus, as the...

"Justification is a legal act of God. It is strictly a legal act of God. By the act of justification, God changes the sinner's sta...

A question over which I often quarrel with both cultists and fellow Christians is, For whom did Jesus die? And it is an important question. ...

"That representation of Christianity which makes the sufferings of Jesus a full and perfect satisfaction of the penalty of the law, and...

"[The sinner] needs not light but life - not philosophy and science, not new discoveries in heaven and earth, but a Savior - a Savior w...

" Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithyni...

Evangelicals don't talk about our union with Christ . I think that is because it sounds very Catholic. However, it is a completely bibl...

As the Reformers emphasized, the Bible says that the Christian is justified by faith. Luther even credited his conversion to Habakkuk 2:4:...

When Adam fell into sin, a separation occurred between him and his Creator: " Your iniquities have made a separation between you and ...

One of the main distinctions between dispensationalism and covenantalism is over the relationship between Israel and the Church. The coven...

There is a heresy which has been going around at least since the time of J. N. Darby in 1830, that says that people in the Old testament w...

As I am writing this, I have just received a new bible with a cover design of the crown of thorns impressed into the leather. It's su...

Among those who claim to follow " New Covenant Theology " (hereafter "NCT"), a supposed midway between dispensationali...