But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you yet with gentleness and reverence; and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. 1 Peter 3: 14-16
Theological Primer: Pactum Salutis
From time to time I make new entries into this continuing series called “Theological Primer.” The idea is to present big theological concepts in around 500 words. Today we will look at thepactum salutis.
In simple terms, the covenant of redemption—or in Latin, the pactum...
Another Helper
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. (John 14:16-17)
You are never alone. Never. Ever. If...
The Binary and Intersex
Over the past few weeks I have been arguing for the goodness of the freedom of the gender binary, the idea that our identity as a man or a woman is given to us by God and is therefore not something which we have to create through performance. This is good because it gives us the freedom to be how...
How to Lead Women’s Ministry in a Complementarian Church
“How do you do it?”
The most common question I get from well-meaning friends and peers when they find out I’m
1. The director of Women’s Ministry
2. At my complementarian church
I think they ask because they know me well. They know I’m opinionated. They know I have a...
February 15: Abiding Themes
William Childs Robinson’s Reports on the Southern & Northern Presbyterian Churches
Among the Papers of William A. McIlwaine there is a letter preserved in which his father, William B. McIlwaine, wrote to J. Gresham Machen, lamenting the spiritual decline of the Southern...
When Fighting Anxiety Seems Unbearable
One of my favorite stories is Pilgrim’s Progress written by John Bunyan. It is the story of Christian leaving the City of Destruction in search of salvation which is found only in the Celestial City, which is heaven. It is an allegory depicting the Christian life all the way.
There is one...
What Does a Sweeping Journey Through the Bible Reveal?
Creation, dietary laws, animal sacrifices, David and Goliath…what do these topics from Scripture have to do with Jesus Christ? Do they hold any relevance for us today?
As believers, we place our faith in the totality of God’s Word. Sixty-six books written by forty people over nearly two...
Real Men Have One Aim
This is the second video in the Christian Man Academy Curriculum. For a transcript, click through to the Christian Man Academy website.
This video is all about finding our ultimate purpose in life. Why are we here and what will make us happy while we are here?
If we aim at God above all, and glorify...
Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance (Part 6)
Read the series.
Stir the fire also by frequent attempts at fresh service. Shake yourself out of routine by breaking away from the familiar fields of service and reclaiming virgin soil. I suggest to you, as a subordinate but very useful means of keeping the heart fresh, the frequent addition of new...
The Lord of logic
Trevin’s Seven
Podcast: I enjoyed guesting on this podcast with Tyler Braun. We discuss how a focus on self-expression can produce positive results, why it usually produces negative results, and what churches can do to navigate this reality of our age.
Video:Over at For the Church, here’s my three...
Continuationism discussion (1 hour video)
Josh and Jeff interviewed me on The Remnant Radio:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InKAO3x5N5o
(I usually don’t have time to watch videos, but I can listen to them when I exercise or something!)
Authors: Craig Keener...
$5 Friday: Providence, Faith, Evangelism
It’s time for our weekly $5 Friday sale. This week’s resources include such topics as grace, Isaac Watts, providence, apologetics, evangelism, faith, parables, Scripture, and more.
Sale runs through 12:01 a.m. — 11:59 p.m. Friday ET.
Authors:...
Interview with Rachael Denhollander about pastors protecting children and advocating for victims
This week the Southern Baptist Convention was shook to its core with the 3 articles researched and released by the Houston Chronical revealing the epidemic of sexual abuse in SBC churches (700 victims) over the last 20 years.
As many face the shock and grief around this...
Q#76 Musical Style and Revival
Q. Can you articulate how the modern trends in Christian music, such as scooping, sliding, breathiness, emotionalism, ccm, worldly sound, etc., are serious hindrances to Revival?
Philip
A. Hello Philip,
Thank you for your question. I appreciate your interest in revival.
Your question presupposes that the...
The SBC and Sexual Abuse: Gender Roles Featured
Striving Idols
“For my purposes here, I am understanding idolatry as placing a created thing where only the uncreated God should be. This clearly happens whenever images are used in prayer, but images need not be involved. Idolatry is more subtle than that” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 94).
The post Striv...
The Overwhelming Importance of the Family Featured
One of the many very incisive things that novelist and essayist George Orwell had to say is this: “We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” Indeed, talking at length about what until just recently everyone assumed to be a...
The journey within a journey
Uncommon Ground: Pope Francis, Muslim Imam Pushing One-World Religion?
Daily Confession
Christians Don’t View Jesus as a Means to an End
An atheist who called the podcast a few weeks ago wanted to reduce Christianity to the avoidance of Hell, saying it’s merely a “carrots and sticks” religion. There may be people out there who view their Christianity that way, but if there are, they’ve missed the point of...
What Hath Darwin Wrought, Pt. III
Episode 2442
What Hath Darwin Wrought, Pt. III
Segment 1 (00:00) Darwinian Dilemmas
Segment 2 (11:43) Intellectual Honesty
Segment 3 (18:30) A Difference of Worldview
Wretched Surprise! (25:30) Presuppo-What?
The post What Hath Darwin Wrought, Pt. III appeared first on Wretched.
Authors: samueljroys...
What did they know and when did they know it?
Interior Life
The main point of Jean-Baptiste Chautard’s Soul of the Apostolate is that if you want to live an active life of Christian service, you need to attend seriously to your spiritual formation and relationship with God. (He says it in more 19th-century Trappist style, which I’ve summarized...
Around the Horn (February 14)
In this article, Albert Mohler argues that the wave of identity politics so prevalent today results in the distortion of humanity. Both right and left can be guilty of viewing each other only in terms of the identity they place...
Clouds without water, carried along by winds Featured
by Mike Ratliff
4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things...
A Twitter Convo, David Bernard Podcast on the Trinity, Open Phones
Began a rainy DL today with an interaction with a Twitter user (@BlackRepublican) regarding the foundational issues of the faith (once again—and one of the calls from our brother Kofi raised the issue again later), and then moved on to a brief interaction with Dr. David Bernard of the UPCI on...
The Anatomy of a Huckster -- Making Merchandise of the Sheep
Authors: 828 Ministries...
02/14/2019
•How important is inerrancy in evangelism?
•Now is the time to learn the SLED argument
•Jon Speed pleads with his city council to stop the murder of babies
•Pray for Cindy Marty and Tomorrow Clubs
•Did Zaxby’s commercial go too far?
Is social justice unjust?
I want to post a brief note about Noah Rothman’s new book on social justice titled Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America (Regnery, 2019). I just finished it a couple days ago and found much that is helpful in it. Rothman outlines a brief history of social justice movements and...
The Anatomy of Accountability
The following guest article is written by Aaron Murray. Aaron serves as a pastoral intern atSecond Reformed Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. At a recent men's breakfast, he and his accountability group shared how the Lord has used their times together to strengthen their walk with...
Gay Priest Speaking at Ravi Zacharias Event Tomorrow
Sam Allberry is a gay priest in the Anglican Church — an apostate denomination — and is scheduled to speak
The post Gay Priest Speaking at Ravi Zacharias Event Tomorrow appeared first on Reformation Charlotte.
Authors: JeffMaples...
Trent Horn “pulled the rug out from under” other Roman Catholic Apologetic tactics
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2019/02/does-magisterium-actually-solve-problem.html#comment-form
Trent Horn wrote:You could say in response, “Well, let each person examine the sources for belief and come to his own conclusion on those questions” and in one sense, everyone has to do that....
To Another Elizabeth
Originally posted on Revive Our Hearts True Woman Blog
When I was a child, I always enjoyed the third Sunday in Advent. This was the week when our church talked about Mary’s visit to Elizabeth, the biblical character who shares my name. As I grew older, I began to think it was silly to...
Are the Nine Marks Simply a Bunch of Western Concepts?
Feminist Pastor Unveils Golden Vagina Statue
Just months after her call for women to send in their purity rings so that she could have them melted
The post Feminist Pastor Unveils Golden Vagina Statue appeared first on Reformation Charlotte.
Authors: JeffMaples...
Missouri Supreme Court Ends Satanic Temple Member Mary Doe’s Case Against Informed Consent Abortion Law Featured
[Micaiah Bilger | LifeNews] Missouri Satanists lost another battle in court Wednesday against a pro-life state law.
The state Supreme Court dismissed the case by “Mary Doe,” a Satanic Temple member who disagrees with the Missouri informed consent laws on abortion, according to the...
Some Thoughts on Prophecy
Eschatology is one of my favorite topics – if you haven’t guessed yet. Chances are that, if you’re reading this, it’s also true about you. Discussions about eschatology can be quite passionate and divisive. You might even say they’re often passionately divisive. Here...
Robert Jeffree: Christians Who Don’t Back Trump Are Morons
PREMIER — Pastor Robert Jeffress has criticised Christians who do not support the US President. The head of megachurch First
The post Robert Jeffree: Christians Who Don’t Back Trump Are Morons appeared first on Reformation Charlotte.
Authors: JeffMaples...
Messianic Politics on Display: The Green New Deal and the New Political Order Featured
Since her election to congress last November, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has broken the traditional mold of a freshman legislator in Congress. Freshmen rarely make the headlines. They generally do not sponsor legislation, and they carry little influence, even if they caucus with the...
GOP Jesus Sounds More Like an Anti-Jesus Liberal Trying to Make Fun of Christians and Failing Featured
Brannon Howse Gets Flagged on Right Wing Watch Featured
Brannon Howse of Worldview Weekend just won the distinct honor of being flagged on Right Wing Watch. His comments about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are apparently beyond the pale.
RWW posts:
Howse said that Ocasio-Cortez represents a very serious threat to this nation because she has “no...
JD Greear Patronizes Blacks, Dwight McKissic Ecstatic
pa·tron·ize — treat in a way that is apparently kind or helpful but that betrays a feeling of superiority. Google
The post JD Greear Patronizes Blacks, Dwight McKissic Ecstatic appeared first on Reformation Charlotte.
Authors: JeffMaples...
Heidelcast Series: I Am That I Am
Authors: R. Scott Clark...
February 13, 2019 Show with Matthew D. Aernie and Donald E. Hartley on "The Righteous and Merciful Judge: The Day of the Lord in the Life Theology of Paul"
Theme:
February 13, 2019:
Dr. DONALD E. HARTLEY, (PhD, Dallas Theological Seminary) Adjunct Professor of Biblical & Theological Studies @ Regent University, who will address: “The RIGHTEOUS & MERCIFUL JUDGE: The DAY of the LORD in the LIFE & THEOLOGY of PAUL”
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Are You Allowing Your Child to Be Injected with Vaccines that Contain Chopped Up Aborted Baby Parts?
There is a lot of justified outrage out there of late about abortion among Christians. However, many Christian parents either do not want to know or are simply ignorant of the fact that major vaccines given to children contain aborted baby parts.This is not a post about the question of the safety...
How to be forgiving
Planned Parenthood Kept Babies Alive in Order to Harvest Brain Heart
WASHINGTON PUNDIT — In an undercover video, a former technician for a tissue-harvesting company details how an aborted baby was
The post Planned Parenthood Kept Babies Alive in Order to Harvest Brain & Heart appeared first on Reformation Charlotte.
Authors: JeffMaples...
Hard cases
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