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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...

" All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You. For king...

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

Do you know the third Commandment? It is the one that says, " You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord wi...

There has long been a tradition of dividing the Ten Commandments into two tables, commandments one through four and then five through ten. I...

In Matthew 21:5, Jesus refers to himself as "king," using  Zechariah 9:9. And, indeed, this is closely followed by the royal welco...

Among Reformed Christians, the children of believers are baptized, not as a sign that they are saved, but because they are - by right - memb...

In arguing against the biblical doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, Arminians point to people who used to profess the Christian fa...

We have a lot of common sayings on the issue of faith. Two that I sincerely hate are "a leap of faith" and "you just gotta h...

When talking about the importance of the Sabbath, I have noticed that most Christians will make a dismissive remark about its being ceremo...

Question 45 of the Westminster Larger Catechism asks, How does Christ execute the office of a king? And answers it this way: " Christ...

I want to compare two events, one in the Old Testament, the other in the New Testament. The first is the process of consecration of the...

The purpose of the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews was to demonstrate the superiority of Christ over the accoutrements of the Mosaic co...

In Question 191, the Westminster Larger Catechism asks, " What do we pray for in the second petition [of the Lord's Prayer]? "...

The Prophet Jeremiah gave his prophecies in the time immediately before and immediately after the sacking of Jerusalem by the Babylonians...

Much in the news today, as well as in water-cooler discussions, is the effort to force businesses, such as florists and bakeries, to serve s...

"The sacred observance of one day in seven is God's appointed means for the cultivation of piety: when piety vanishes, orthodoxy ...

" Question 157: How is the Word of God to be read? Answer: The holy Scriptures are to be read with an high and reverent esteem of the...

Question 117: How is the sabbath or the Lord's day to be sanctified? Answer: The sabbath or Lord's day is to be sanctified by a...

The Westminster Assembly " We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the Church to an high and reverent esteem of the holy Sc...