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  • Sabbath School—9:45 a.m.
  • Morning Worship—10:45 a.m.
  • Afternoon Worship—2:00 p.m.
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Archive for the 'Creeds' Category

Westminster Larger Catechism Q&A 108

Saturday, May 11th, 2013

Q: What are the duties required in the second commandment? A: The duties required in the second commandment are, the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath instituted in his Word; particularly prayer and thanksgiving in the name of Christ; the reading, preaching, and hearing of […]

Preparation for the Lord’s Supper

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Westminster Larger Catechism #171 Q.: How are they that receive the sacrament of the Lord’s supper to prepare themselves before they come unto it? A.: They that receive the sacrament of the Lord’s supper are, before they come, to prepare themselves thereunto, by examining themselves of their being in Christ, of their sins and wants; […]

Pastors Necessary to the Church

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

The French Confession (1559) Article XXV — Pastors Necessary to the Church And forasmuch as we are not made partakers of Christ but by the gospel, we believe that the good order in the church, which was established by His authority, ought to be kept sacred and inviolable; and, therefore, that the church cannot subsist […]

After receiving the Lord’s Supper…

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Westminster Larger Catechism #175 Q. What is the duty of Christians, after they have received the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper? A. The duty of Christians, after they have received the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, is seriously to consider how they have behaved themselves therein, and with what success;1 if they find quickening and […]

Excellent analysis by TE Wes White

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

TE Wes White offers a clear and helpful analysis of the contrast between the soteriology of confessional Reformed Theology and the soteriological system proposed by the Federal Vision. I found his succinct description of the “obscuring language” employed by advocates of the Federal Vision to be very insightful.

Samuel Miller on the rise of heresy

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

I found this quotation attributed to Samuel Miller in a recent article by a URCNA minister. Checking his footnote I found that it’s from a volume I have in my library and I reproduce that quotation here for your edification. Miller’s words are as remarkably insightful as they are timely. When heresy rises in an […]

On Converting to Rome – Reformation21 Blog

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Over at the Reformation21 Blog, Sean Lucas notes the central issue of authority for a recent convert to the false religion of Rome. There is a legitimate concern here, but the answer is not found in Rome — it is found in biblical confessionalism. It strikes me that this is a key wrestling point in […]

Confessing the Reformed Faith

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

D.G. Hart comments on John Frame’s critique of R. Scott Clark’s book Recovering the Reformed Confessions. Hart’s comments and the ensuing discussion are very worthwhile reading. Here is a sampling. The review reveals a very interesting difference between Clark and Frame on the Reformed tradition. For Clark, the Reformed faith has an objective standard, found […]

Machen: Creeds in the context of error

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Geneva Redux gives a welcome quotation from Machen’s God Transcendent, published in 1949: The increasing richness and the increasing precision of Christian doctrine were brought about very largely by the necessity of excluding one alien element after another from the teaching of the church. From the time of the Apostles to the present day, it […]