Audio from the Sabbath School class of 3 May 2015 is available here.

In this class we continue our discussion of principles we must cultivate in order to maintain, preserve, and live according to the biblical doctrine of vocation. We focussed especially upon Christ’s zeal for His Temple and the zeal we should have for maintaining the church as a worshipping body.

Audio from the Sabbath School class of 3 May 2015 is available here.

In this class we continue our discussion of principles we must cultivate in order to maintain, preserve, and live according to the biblical doctrine of vocation. We focussed especially upon living according to the Law of Love, and valuing the church and the ordained ministry as instructed by the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 4.

Audio from the Sabbath School class of 19 April 2015 is available here.

In this class we discuss principles that are necessary for us to understand and cultivate if we are to maintain, preserve, and live according to the doctrine of vocation.

First, we must maintain the boundaries of the several estates and preserve the distinct and several callings within each estate. We noted that Romans 12.14-13.10 shows the delineation of separate callings within the social-civil estate and then calls us to live according to the Law of Love.

This leads to the second principle, that we must recognise the way our debt of ‘love to neighbour’ forms our service to Christ in our ordinary callings. That is, our calling in service to Christ is to walk according to God’s commands in loving one another because ‘love is the fulfillment of the law.’

Third, to avoid the modern evangelical tendency toward neo-monasticism and neo-clericalism, we must understand, value, and preserve the callings of the ecclesiastical estate, understanding how those callings equip us for our vocation in the other estates.

Audio from the Sabbath School class of 19 April 2015 is available here.

In this class we continue our discussion of the doctrine of vocation, recounting the outline of the corruption of that doctrine in the mediaeval church and the recovery of vocation# and the *priesthood of believers at the time of the Reformation. We then discuss some serious misunderstandings of those related doctrines and how Reformed Evangelicals are subtly losing those doctrines again today.

Please remember that there will be no Sabbath School on the 12th of April. Sabbath School will resume on the 19th of April, Deo volente.

Please remember that there will be no Sabbath School on the 5th and 12th of April. Sabbath School will resume on the 19th of April, Deo volente.

Audio from the Sabbath School class of 29 March 2015 is available here.

In this class we continue our discussion of the doctrine of vocation, briefly surveying Scripture in relation to this doctrine, and discussing the heritage of this doctrine as explained by Martin Luther.

Audio from the Sabbath School class of 15 March 2015 is available here.

In this class we conclude our brief survey of effectual calling and begin our discussion of the doctrine of vocation.

Audio from the Sabbath School class of 15 March 2015 is available here.

In this class we continue our study of effectual calling.

Audio from the Sabbath School class of 8 March 2015 is available here.

In this class we discuss the call of God in Scripture, especially in relation to effectual calling. We examine this doctrine briefly from Romans 8 and Ephesians 2, comparing this with what we have confessed in The Westminster Confession of Faith, at Chapter 10, paragraph 1.