My column from the May edition of our church magazine. Remembering May 5th will mark seventeen years since our church building was dedicated and opened by Rev. Allan Harman. To put that in some perspective, our tenure at Scots on Pick Avenue was for nineteen years. Anyone under the age of twenty who is part …
Carl Trueman paints a dystopian vision of what Christian life would be like if the primary association of Christians to the life and fellowship of local congregations gave way to an evangelical industrial complex of alliances, coalitions, pushes, networks, conferences and podcasts; and then gives thanks for the constant assurances which he receives that nothing …
What does Sensing Jesus (Zack Eswine, Crossway, 2013) promise? Subtitled ‘Life and Ministry as a Human Being’ Eswine seeks to make the point that each person is apprenticing themselves to a rule, a way of life; and to provide tools for recognizing Jesus and seeking his apprenticing of the lives of his disciples (pg 290). …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 17 Chapter 10 – Of Effectual Calling I. All those whom God has predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by his word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are …
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