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In his Catechism for the Church of Geneva (answer # 126), John Calvin wrote, " To believe in Christ is as much to say as to receive Chr...

"Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. ...

 " I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps " (Jeremiah 10:23). ...

Most people are not aware that God gave Moses the Ten Commandment not once but twice. The first time is described in Exodus 24:12: " Th...

" On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all people a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of mar...

Where was the spirit of Stephen after he was stoned to death? The Seventh-Day Adventists claim that it was asleep with his body in the grave...

" Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished " (Proverbs 16:5).  I con...

"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...

Orthodox Protestants properly state that justification is by faith alone, without regard to works. That statement is true, and the only way ...

When I am dealing with members of Pelagian sects, such as Mormons and Catholics, on the issue of justification by faith alone, some of them ...

" What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? " (1Cor. 4:7). ...

 "Christ, and Christ alone, is the source of righteousness, that is, the righteousness that we need and becomes ours by God's act o...

Isaiah 55:11 is a verse which is well-known among orthodox Protestants: " So shall My word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall no...

In Hebrews 9:27, we get this simple declaration from God: " It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment ." ...

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

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

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

The Apostle Paul tells us in Romans 2:15, " They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also...

An important theme in the New Testament is the role that conscience plays in human lives. We immediately think of its role in the life of ...

" Thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of ...