Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Persevering in the Perfecting Power of Jesus

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A common caricature of the Reformed doctrine of the perseverance of the saints is that it, supposedly, allows a person to spout some words,...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Jesus Contra "Soul Sleep": Absent from the Body, Present with the Lord

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As we know, Jesus was a frequent target of the Pharisees, as they asked Him questions that they expected to baffle Him or to expose Him to p...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

God's Law or Man's Law?

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Recently, I have been seeing an argument from antinomians that we are not under the Old Testament law, but rather under the Law of Christ. W...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Jesus Contra "Soul Sleep"

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" Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Social Disorder, Statism, and God's Law

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I write this at a time when America is going through widespread social tumult over police shootings of black men and women. George Floyd and...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

The Covenant and the Children of Believers

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One of the distinctive doctrines that I love about Presbyterianism is what is called "covenant succession," the belief that the ch...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

The Death Penalty, Dangerous Animals, and Accountability for Sin

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" Whoever sheds the blood of man  By man shall his blood be shed,  For God made man in His own image. "  - Genesis 9:6 This brief ...