Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 36 Chapter 21 – Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day (Cont.) Paragraphs 7-8 VII. As it is of the law of nature, that, in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God; so, in his Word, by a positive, moral, and perpetual …
Ray Ortlund points out it’s easy to find other people’s failings in following Christ, but we’re supposed to use our discernment on ourselves. Some people are excellent at spotting ‘Pharisees’, but if we’ve never seen a ‘Pharisee’ in ourselves then we may be actually be one. “The Pharisees saw that some of his disciples ate …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 33  Chapter 20 – Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience I. The liberty which Christ has purchased for believers under the gospel consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the moral law; and in their being …
This is a theme that needs to be returned to again and again. It’s also the problem with sermons that strip-mine biblical narrative for things to do and not to do, but neglect to reference what Jesus has done, and what He is doing. An excerpt from the post at Liberate. Do you read the …
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