The Bible says, In the beginning God. The God we worship is the God who has always been. He alone can create beings, because He alone has the power of being. He is not nothing. He is not chance. He is...
Subjectivism takes place when we distort the objective meaning of terms to suit our own interests.
Somewhere, somehow, something must have the power of being. If not, we are left with only two options: (1) being comes from nothing or (2) nothing is (a contradiction). These options would be more mir...
Sometimes we struggle to grasp the biblical view of joy because of the way it is defined and described in Western culture today. In particular, we often confuse joy with happiness. In the Beatitudes (...
Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church, or receiving a sacrament. It is being brought to our knees by...
Paul's favorite description of himself was doulos, which means slave-one purchased for service. He said the same status applies to all believers, for we all have been bought at a price (1 Cor. 6:20)....
Only if we believe God can we maintain joy in the midst of hardship.
No person in history has provoked as much study, criticism, prejudice, or devotion as Jesus of Nazareth.
Needless to say, the reign of our Lord is a tremendous benefit for those who love Him and follow Him. For this reason, it is clearly better for us that Jesus left than if He had stayed.
La razón exacta por la que oramos es la soberanía de Dios, porque creemos que está dentro del poder de Dios ordenar las cosas conforme a su propósito. Eso es precisamente la soberanía: ordenar las cos...
Just laws reflect what is right.
I should adopt the ancient Christian practice of lectio continua, continuous expositions, in my preaching. This method of preaching verse-by-verse through books of the Bible (rather than choosing a ne...
He ordained that His creatures should have the capacity for evil. He did not force them to exercise that capacity, but He knew that they would exercise it. At
Authority of the church. It was created to counter the drift from this important doctrinal foundation by significant segments of evangelicalism and the outright denial of it by other church movements....
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Yet I believe we are in the midst of a new and more evil holocaust, which sees the destruction of 1.5 million unborn babies every year in the United States alone.
Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? (Rom. 8:33-34a).
When the will is enchained as the slave of sin, it cannot make a movement towards goodness, far less steadily pursue it. John Calvin
When God quickens a human soul, He does it immediately. When I say immediately,
We have made our worship services more secular than sacred, more common than uncommon, more profane than holy.