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" You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend ...

"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...

As an orthodox Protestant, I advocate and defend the doctrine of justification by faith alone as the standard against all false expression...

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

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

In my day to day ministry, I confront many sectarians who hold to some version of works righteousness, Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Wit...

The Pelagian cults - by which I mean primarily the Church of Rome, the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Oneness Pentecostals - hate th...

" I will keep Your law continually, forever and ever, And I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought Your precepts.  I will also...

There is an unfortunate tendency among Christians to define everything in two opposing theses. That is unfortunate because life doesn't ...

I've noticed a certain reaction, whenever I cite from the Old Testament something which conflicts with another person's theology: ...

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...

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

Related to the so-called question of evil is the question, Is God the author of sin? Did He create sin? Is sin under His control ? Let ...

The Puritan Thomas Watson , in his Body of Divinity , lists ten ways in which sin is truly sinful:      1) Incredulity: Our first parents ...

I wrote recently about some Episcopal Church clergy who were campaigning for the right to kill babies and rip their bodies apart. Now word ...

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...

As any Christian should know, the Apostle Paul tells us (Romans 3:28), " We hold that one is justified by faith apart from the works of...

From Christ Presbyterian Church, Magna, UT. Used by permission. On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther posted 95 theses or propositions agai...

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

Arminians snarl whenever the Calvinist doctrine of reprobation comes up. Reprobation is God's intentional hardening of the hearts of tho...