Jesus Christ was/is no Phantasm: “The Gospels constantly portray Christ as living a thoroughly human, bodily existence: he was conceived in a womb and born when a census was being taken; his penis was circumcised when he was an infant. He grew in stature—he did not come full grown. He got hungry, thirsty and weary.…
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Not A Ladder But A Cross R. Scott Clark | August 31, 2013 “17. Why must he also be true God? That by the power of His Godhead He might bear in His manhood the burden of God’s wrath, and so obtain for and restore to us righteousness and life.” Almost from the beginning of…
Second Life or New Life? By Carl R. Trueman One of the earliest challenges to the New Testament portrait of Jesus was docetism, the idea that Jesus only appeared to be human. As with all heresies, there was a legitimate concern that lay behind it: a desire to preserve the transcendent otherness of God from…
We need the word of Christ to dwell in us richly today more than ever Written by W. Robert Godfrey | previously published in Tabletalk (used with permission) Churches seem to have lost a love for and confidence in the Word of God. They still carry Bibles and declare the authority of the…
When Are We Going to Grow Up? The Juvenilization of American Christianity We’re all adolescents now. Thomas E. Bergler [ posted 6/8/2012 12:33PM ] ILLUSTRATION BY PAUL KISSELEV SINGLE PAGE RELATED TOPICS READ THIS ISSUE The house lights go down. Spinning, multicolored lights sweep the auditorium. A rock band launches into a rousing opening song.…
from Daniel Hyde Jan 30, The second of the three marks of a true church is the pure administration of the sacraments. The two sacraments that Christ Himself instituted are baptism (Matt. 28:18–20) and the Lord’s Supper (Matt. 26:26–29). Because of our continuing struggle with sin, the visible Word of the sacraments supplements the audible…
By Carl Trueman http://www.e-n.org.uk/p-2105-The-Marcions-have-landed.htm February 20, 2013 When one asks the most influential thinkers in the modern evangelical church are, one might find names such as Jim Packer, John Stott, and Don Carson. I would like to suggest, however, that there is one whose influence is perhaps much greater than we are aware of, yet…
Prayer for Thanksgiving Day Our Sovereign God, who created all things for your pleasure and who gives to all life, breath, and every good thing, we praise you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life. For rain and sunshine, in abundance and in lack, we acknowledge that our times are in…
Our faith and practice are based entirely on the teachings of the Bible. We affirm the historic statement of these truths expressed in the Westminster Confession of Faith (1647) and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms (1647-8), which our church officers are required to uphold. We are called Presbyterian because we believe that Christ commits the…
“The ministers, therefore, on their part administer the sacrament and that which is visible, but our Lord gives that which is signified by the sacrament, namely, the gifts and invisible grace; washing, cleansing, and purging our souls of all filth and unrighteousness; renewing our hearts and filling them with all comfort; giving unto us a…