Tarheel Covenant Blog

"The law must be applied with power to the conscience, or the preciousness of grace will be very inadequately known. The superficial pi...

In court proceedings, we often see the perpetrator apologize to his victims as a sign of contrition. If the judge is convinced, he may low...

In the book known by his name, the Patriarch Job tells a very sad tale. Starting with verse 6, he first tells us how God has opposed Himse...

The Pelagian cults - by which I mean primarily the Church of Rome, the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Oneness Pentecostals - hate ...

" There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth. There are those—how lofty are their eyes, how h...

" The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord ,      but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to Him.   The way of t...

The contrast between Calvinists and Arminians is most visible in our understanding of the ordo salutis (theological terminology for "t...

When he preached at the Areopagus in Athens (Acts 17:16-34), one of the things the Apostle Paul told his hearers was, " [God] comman...

Peter on Solomon's Portico In Acts 3:15-21, Luke gives us an account of a sermon to the Jews in front of the Temple. " You kill...

According to the Catholic Church, " Absolution proper is that act of the priest whereby, in the Sacrament of Penance, he frees man fro...

I have noticed an attitude among Christians that says that repentance is a good thing, but nothing more. One can repent, or not, as he sees ...

While the unbeliever justifies himself every day, with his professions that "there is no proof for God," each breath he draws, eac...

My previous post on the idolatry of Mormonism has gotten a lot of attention. My prayer is that someone in bondage to that cult has had h...

Arminians snarl whenever the Calvinist doctrine of reprobation comes up. Reprobation is God's intentional hardening of the hearts of tho...

" What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has ...

" Create in me a clean heart, O God,      and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Your presence,      and take no...

" The Lord was very angry with your fathers. Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to Me, says the Lord of ...

In the Westminster Confession of Faith , Chapter XV, Section 2, we find this profound statement regarding repentance: " By it a sinner,...

" David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. Then Davi...