Tarheel Covenant Blog

When I run into someone who wants to rail against the doctrine of election - something which happens frequently - he usually takes one of t...

"It is, and must be, an indispensable element in anything which deserves the name of atonement that it satisfies the justice of God, ...

Guilt is our emotional response to affliction of conscience. That is, when we are aware that we have done wrong, and are deserving of punish...

People often ask, and properly so, why today's church looks so little like the church of the New Testament. I am not talking about doctr...

We find what the Puritans called " The Golden Chain of Salvation " in Romans 8:29-30: " Those whom He foreknew He also pred...

In Matthew 21:5, Jesus refers to himself as "king," using  Zechariah 9:9. And, indeed, this is closely followed by the royal welco...

There is a hard verse in Scripture. Not just hard, but hard .  It is Romans 9:21: " Has the potter no right over the clay, to make o...

Regarding the hesitancy to preach on election, Southern Presbyterian Theologian James Henley Thornwell wrote, "This squeamish timidity ...

In our day, the largest portion of evangelicalism consists of pentecostal denominations and charismatics within non-pentecostal denomination...

When dealing with even professed Christians on Facebook, I get a continuous stream of questions about hypothetical issues. Today someone ask...

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

"A penal death and a perfect righteousness imputed, the one for pardon and the other for acceptance - these are the things which make t...

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

Americans have come to loathe the concept of sin. The popular  preachers, such as Joel Osteen, refuse to use the word. Even the supposedly-...

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

"The justification of a sinner introduces him into a state in which he can no more be left to the dominion of sin and the possibility o...

The Apostle Paul records something interesting in Romans 1:18-23: " The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness ...

In Luke 17:10, Jesus makes a surprising comment: " So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, [should] say, ‘We are...

I think that the only doctrine in Scripture hated more than eternal conscience torment in Hell is particular atonement (also called definit...

There are some traditional biblical texts that are used whenever the Christmas story is retold (I am writing this the day after Christmas). ...