You Are a Sinner to the Praise of Christ
Understanding the Truth of Your Weakness and the Law of God
It is a dangerous way of thinking to consider ourselves outside the need of the means of grace, outside the call to sanctification. Often we do not take advantage of worship, prayer meetings, the Sabbath Day, singing, etc… because we don’t think we need it. Brothers and sisters, if this catechism question teaches us anything... Continue Reading
The Word Dwelt–Like a Tabernacle
Reflecting on John's Verb Choice
When the Old Testament Israelites traveled with the tabernacle, and when they camped around it, they could rightly say, “God is with us.” But the tabernacle was a shadow, a type, of something greater—Someone greater. Jesus is the true and greater tabernacle who came to dwell among sinners. He is Immanuel, God with us. The opening... Continue Reading
All Hail Christ, the King of Nations
The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.
God was faithful to His Word and He will continue to be so forevermore. Thus, no matter how bleak things may look for a time, these realities stand true and indisputable: Christ came, Christ died, Christ rose, and Christ conquered. And He now reigns as the uncontested Lord of heaven and earth. And I... Continue Reading
WCF 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
There are “ordinary means” we must use to gain confidence that God is for us. So how can we gain assurance?
You don’t need “extraordinary revelation” to know that you are a child of God. Through the ordinary means of grace—listening to God’s voice and using his ordinances—true believers may “be certainly assured that they are in the state of grace, and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.” Only Jesus’s blood shed... Continue Reading
Who Is this One Lying in the Manger
He is God’s holy child Jesus, lying in the manger, coming for us his people, for our salvation and the redemption of the groaning cosmos.
The infinite became finite; the eternal and supratemporal entered time and became subject to it. The immutable became mutable. The invisible became visible. The Creator became created. The sustainer of all became dependent. The Almighty became weak. God became man. Christianity displays a supernatural view of the cosmos. The origin of the universe was... Continue Reading
The Past, Present, and Future Aspects of the Lord’s Supper (Sproul)
The Lord’s Supper, as it was initiated, looked not just backward but forward.
Every time we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, we think about the past, and we remember that there is a future for the people of God; that we are having a foretaste at the Lord’s Table of that ultimate fellowship we will have with Him in heaven. The Lord’s Supper is a rich sacrament full... Continue Reading
How John the Baptist Fulfilled God’s Purposes in Utero
An often-overlooked detail in the Gospel of Luke reveals the powerful value God places on preborn life.
While still in her womb, John helped his own mother prepare for the coming of the Lord. She then encouraged Mary in her preparation for the coming of the Lord, the One she was carrying at that time. After Elizabeth’s encouragement, Mary breaks out into song, the Magnificat, uttering words that have not only instructed and encouraged millions of... Continue Reading
The Light of the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ
Those who are in the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ are the living because they possess eternal life in Christ.
Paul does not back away from the truth, and we should not either, that the Gospel is indeed veiled to those who reject it. Those who want a gospel on their own terms reject out of hand the genuine gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we... Continue Reading
No Games, Just Grace
The Judge of all the earth calls you to rise.
Our sin will find us out. There will be no sighs of relief that we escaped the condemnation due us for our transgressions. Our sin that we tried so hard to hide throughout our lives will be laid bare. And there will be no defense that can be made. We stand guilty, our sin exposed.... Continue Reading
By Faith We See In the Dark
Understanding by Faith
According to Hebrews, it is by faith that we understand. And of course, if Christianity is actually true, that understanding requires knowledge of the invisible. By faith we know who God is, the truth that He created all things in the beginning and will judge all things in the future, and even present unseen realities like... Continue Reading
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