Tarheel Covenant Blog

I have often been told that the First and Second Commandments do not apply to pagans, and that the civil magistrate is not accountable for t...

" Progressive Christians " hate what the Bible says about homosexuality, so they rewrite it. For example, we have the story of Sod...

I get challenged regularly by atheists who object to God because, they believe, they don't deserve Hell. they claim that Hell is overkil...

I think that it can be argued that the Fourth Commandment is the most-ignored among the ten, even among Christians. Or should I say especial...

In his famous book, The Existence and Attributes of God , Puritan Stephen Charnock tells us, "By the nonregarding [sic, for "disre...

" Thus, the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day, God finished His work that He had do...

" Do not boil a goat in its mother's milk " -Deuteronomy 14:21.  I remember the first time I read this verse in an Old Testame...

" Now, the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it - the righ...

Many people claim that the moral law of the Old Testament was given for Israel alone, not for the Gentiles. They base their claim on the fac...

" Upon You have I leaned from before my birth; You are He who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of You "...

When I discuss the Sabbath with antisabbatarians, one of their frequent responses is to claim that the Sabbath was created by the Fourth Com...

" The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble ."  -Proverbs 16:4  I think that the least-...

"The truth of justification by faith alone is contrary to depraved human nature, which always supposes and insists that the way to be r...

I want to relate two passages of Scripture here.  The first is Genesis 2:1-3: " Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all t...

"' Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it a...

" Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Ta...

"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...

Noah and the Ark A major argument used by anti-sabbatarians to support their claim that the Sabbath was a Jewish ceremony and not for Christ...

  "Faith is said to justify because it is the instrument by which we receive Christ, in whom righteousness is communicated to us. When ...

 Sometimes it is funny to talk to people not well-versed in sound biblical theology. When I ask them, "Do you believe in the sovereignt...