Tarheel Covenant Blog

"This covenant [of grace] does not only give life upon terms of believing, but faith also and holiness the necessary means of attaining...

" The righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousn...

"Regarding the guilty sinner, it is the perfection of God's being that requires and effects the maintenance of God's holy being...

"Justification is a legal act of God. It is strictly a legal act of God. By the act of justification, God changes the sinner's sta...

Every Bible-believing Christian is distinguished by one doctrine: our justification before God is through fail alone. That was the message o...

Every false religion, that is, every religion other than biblical Christianity, is based on innate human righteousness, the things that men ...

As the Reformers emphasized, the Bible says that the Christian is justified by faith. Luther even credited his conversion to Habakkuk 2:4:...

When Adam fell into sin, a separation occurred between him and his Creator: " Your iniquities have made a separation between you and ...

It is unpopular to talk about sin, even among professing Christians. On one hand, we have the Osteen-style preachers who won't use the...

" If You, O Lord , should mark iniquities,      O Lord, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness,      that You may be fear...

The hardest inheritance that all men have received from our first ancestor, Adam, is the promise of eternal life on the basis of perfect ...

" Baptismal regeneration " is the doctrine regarding baptism that claims that it is essential to salvation. The details vary. So...

One thing cults have in common is that they have some leader, whether alive or dead, whom they declare to be some paragon of truth. We have...

" For He is not a man, as I am, that I might answer Him, that we should come to trial together. There is no arbiter between us, who m...

People - those who are more ignorant of the Scriptures than they will admit - will often claim that there are contradictory images of God in...

In the Bible, we find comments like this (Habakkuk 1:13): " You are of purer eyes than to see evil, and cannot look at wrong. " Or...

I live in the area where Pastor Steven Furtick has his ministry, called Elevation Church . In fact, I live just down the road from one of...

This is the mantra of American public religion. Yet, it actually reflects a humanist/secularist worldview. It is similar to surveys of drive...

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

" The nations raged, but Your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding Your servants, the prophets and sai...