Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 49 Chapter 30 – Of Church Censures I. The Lord Jesus, as king and head of his Church, has therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate. II. To these officers the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are committed, by …

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John Starke writes about the place of lament in corporate worship. … the Bible gives us several good reasons why lamenting should be a part of our normal Christian worship, even if we are not lamenting our own circumstances. In no particular order of importance, here are four such reasons. We sing songs of lament …

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Standing Strong is a 2012 republication of John MacArthur’s How To Meet The Enemy, a 1992 book on spiritual warfare. Coming from solid baptist Bible teacher MacArthur it’ll have a lot of sober and scriptural teaching. As a work originally framed in the early 90’s it seeks to find a biblical path between the extremes …

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This morning’s talk among the pastors of Mount Gambier revolved around those who had prayed for our conversions and those who had been models of Godliness for us as we grew in our Christian lives. Our different stories revealed the same grace mediated through a great diversity of relationships and circumstances. God is pleased to …

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