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The Westminster Standards distinguish between the visible church and the invisible church . For example, we can read question and answer 61 ...

I have been having discussions with Mormons recently on the place of "priests" in the Christian Church. They claim to have an excl...

In our day, there are many "Christian" groups that claim grandiose titles for their organizational leaders. Mormons have their ...

In Acts 20, Luke gives us an account of a trip by Paul to Miletus. From there, he calls for the elders from the church in nearby Ephesus to ...

The Westminster Confession tells, " There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome in any ...

Before I start, this post makes number 500. I'll pretend that it is in honor of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. M...

The Church of Rome, the Eastern Orthodox churches, and the Anglicans like to cite the Church Fathers in support of their government by mon...

I admit that I don't have much sympathy for the Jehovah's Witnesses, but the court case referenced here is a threat to orthodox chur...

The Church of Rome makes an interesting use of some of the remarks of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. In Matt. 16:18-19, He said, " I...

Before I start, I want to mention what a landmark this post is: Post number 300! When I first started this blog, I would never have imagined...

I have addressed this topic more generally here , but I want to emphasize one passage in particular, that of Philippians 1:1. In it, Paul ad...

The first three verses of the fifth chapter of I Peter have some serious implications for church government. " So I exhort the elde...

Titus 1:5-8 in the English Standard Version, says, " This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, a...

The Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches, and the churches of the Anglican Communion, all practice the form of church govern...

" How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those ...

" I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word, that they may all be one, just as You, F...

" Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, 'You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that b...

We tend to think of the Apostle Paul as a spiritual Lone Ranger, single-handedly establishing Christianity around the Mediterranean fringe. ...

"A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. And he said to them, 'The kings of the Ge...

The Church of Rome claims that the Pope is the supreme head of the organized church on earth, meaning that anyone refusing that supremacy ...