Headlines around the world announced that an international team of scientists working in China had created human-monkey chimeras. These “chimeras,” grown as embryos, have both human and monkey cells, and the goal is to grow organs able to be transplanted into humans waiting for an organ...

What is one way that our marriages can be strengthened?

Joel Beeke explains in this video that a husband is commanded to love his wife as Christ loved the church. The wife is commanded to respect her husband. One of the key things that we have lost today is that both a husband and a wife must give...

Today’s Kindle deals include small but diverse collection of books you should check out.

The recent deals from Westminster Books are focused on helping teens see life through three biblical lenses.

(Yesterday on the blog: Missing Elements in Our Discussions about Apostasy)

3 Questions D.A....

Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way,consider it an opportunity for great joy. 

For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. James 1:2-3

    Heavenly Father, I’m sitting here with a confirmed seat...

Before my husband, Mark, and I began working at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, he worked for eighteen years at Taco Bell. His passion for tacos remains strong, and he often knows exactly where friends of the Seminary live or have lived based upon the nearest Taco Bell to their...

Here are the links related to Presuppositional Apologetics gathered between August 8th-15th, 2019.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Ep. 32 – How To Be An Atheist – Ch.10 – God – The Failed Hypothesis

2.) We can know the words of the Old Testament: Table of Contents

3....

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is (Mark 13:33). For we are HIS WORKMANSHIP, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10).

1. God trained Joseph over a 13 year period to prepare him for preserving the...

At Grace London at the moment we are (slowly) working through Mark’s Gospel. A few weeks ago we came to Mark 4:35-41, in which Jesus calms a storm. As we dug deeper into the passage and its lessons in our mid-week Life Group, the question arose, “How should the disciples have...

“I am an American to the Backbone.”

James W.C. Pennington was born in 1809 and died in 1870, at the age of 63. To my knowledge, his exact birth and death dates are lost to us. But it was on this day, August 15th, in 1849, that he penned the Preface to his autobiography,“”...

What we refer to as the Golden Rule had appeared in other places before Jesus stated it but always in a negative form, such as, “Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you.” But Jesus provides a positive expression in his Sermon on the Mount, “So whatever you...

(I was out of the country on a counseling conference in Chile.  Here is the first half of my notes from a lecture on depression)

Notes on Depression Lecture

Begin with Psalm 88

Psalm 88 (ESV)

I Cry Out Day and Night Before You 88 A SONG. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. TO THE CHOIRMASTER:...

When it comes to abortion, there is no excuse on planet Earth that could be made for this atrocious act

The post Abortion Doctor Admits He’s a Baby Killer Whether It’s In Or Out of the Womb appeared first on Reformation Charlotte.

Let’s help find this pastor! ‘The Messed Up Church’ blogger Steven Kozar wants to hear directly from the pastor who was healed of polio by Todd White.

Steven writes:

During the Protestant Reformation, the church rediscovered the doctrine of justification, and the world got turned upside down. Today, I think it could be the church that is turned upside down if the application of the doctrine of justification were rediscovered. 

I don’t think I have to...

An excerpt from Pastor Kevin Sadler’s new booklet, based on episode 70 of Transformed by Grace.  You can also watch episode 70 on YouTube.

“This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the...

The “Black Robe Regiment” was not a regular regiment, platoon, or division of soldiers during the Revolutionary War, but was an insult used toward American clergy (in their characteristic black robes) who supported American...

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A young couple sitting at a table across from you at a family restaurant has been kissing and snuggling for several minutes. Would you be more offended if the couple is of the same sex?

August 14, 2019

 The goodness, kindness, mercy, and love of God are major themes in all parts of Holy Scripture.  It’s always one of my favorite parts of theological reading when I come across good explanations of God’s goodness and love that are very much based on Scripture.  In volume...

[Lifesite News] A federal judge continued to block three pro-life laws in Arkansas from going into effect because they are “unconstitutional” and would cause “irreparable harm” for women seeking abortions. Judge Kristine Baker of...

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[Capstone Report] Despite a request for aid from local grassroots Christians, the ERLC did not testify at the hearing, says Conservative Christians of Tennessee. ERLC has time for AI, robots & animal fighting but...

The post Tennessee Baptists Rebuke ERLC for Not Helping in Abortion Fight appeare...

Last April I had the chance to hear D.A. Carson speak at the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology. Speaking on the subject of redemption, Carson made reference to a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) titled “Cowper’s Grave.” The poem opens,

It is a place...

The 200th anniversary of the birth of America’s greatest writer of fiction just passed.

I mean Herman Melville,...

No, this isn’t satire. George Washington University students were asked to sign a petition to ban “oppressive” white figures in crosswalk signage. They happily complied. Ethan Cai, of Campus Reform, visited the college in...

The post Students Sign Petition to Ban Oppressive...

Acting as greedy colonialists and corporate imperialists indifferent to human suffering in China, the Southern Baptist Convention put Lifeway’s corporate profits above the poor Christian martyrs suffering persecution. China is a lead persecutor of...

The post Southern Baptists Put Lifeway...

The anthropomorphic nature of God, which is merely hinted at in chap. 2, becomes inescapable in chap 3, where God is described as walking in the garden in the cool of the day, calling audibly to...

Jared Wilson:

“Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—- unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance…&r...

Living close to the local church’s meeting place is good for your spiritual health. Most of the time, when people move closer to the center of the church community, they grow in the Lord. That’s my general observation from nearly two decades of ministry experience.

How can your spiritual...

The current second-place contender for the Democratic presidential primary, Elizabeth Warren, wants taxpayers to fund so-called gender-reassignment surgeries for people who suffer from gender dysphoria. Gender can’t be reassigned by mutilating the human body...

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