Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Collapse of Commitment — Church Membership & the Reluctance to Commit

Tim Witmer has a great comment in this regard in his book on The Shepherd Leader: People are showing increasing reluctance to identify themselves with a particular flock, to make the commitment of church membership vows, and to submit to the authority of shepherd-elders inherent in those commitments....

Friday, February 24, 2012

JUSTIFICATION by faith alone in Christ alone by grace alone.

Martin Luther once remarked concerning the doctrine of justification: a Christian is righteous and holy by an alien and foreign holiness --- this mercy and grace is not something human; it is not some sort of disposition of the heart; but it is a divine blessing, given through the true knowledge of the GOspel, when we know or believe that our sin has been forgiven through the grace and merit of...

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Philosophy of "The Sinner's Prayer"

Philosophy of “The Sinner’s Prayer”By: Geoffrey R. KirklandCFBCMany evangelists and pastors have utilized “the sinner’s prayer” for many years. One may share the gospel with someone and then call them respond by praying the sinner’s prayer. This is the prayer that sinners pray which “seals the deal”...

Monday, February 20, 2012

Teach Your Children...

Deuteronomy 6:20–21: When your son asks you in time to come, "What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?" then you shall say to your son, "We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand." Charles...

a healthy fear of the LORD

Numbers 17:12-13 12 Then the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we perish, we are dying, we are all dying! 13 "Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, must die. Are we to perish completely?" In God's Word, the people of Israel were in the wilderness and...

Saturday, February 11, 2012

the seriousness of idolatry — false worship.

From Leviticus 20: Leviticus 20:4-5 4 'If the people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his offspring to Molech, so as not to put him to death, 5 then I Myself will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off from among their people both him and all those who play the harlot after him, by playing the harlot after Molech. Leviticus...

Friday, February 10, 2012

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Spurgeon on Family Worship

"To neglect the instruction of our offspring is worse than brutish. Family religion is necessary for the nation, for the family itself, and for the church of God. . .. Would that parents would awaken to a sense of the importance of this matter. It is a pleasant duty to talk of Jesus to our sons and daughters, and the more so because it has often proved to be an accepted work, for God has saved the...

The Pastor's Primary Responsibilities in a Church Plant

The Pastor’s Primary Responsibilities in a Church PlantBy Geoffrey R. KirklandThese are not exhaustive nor are they unchanging. These five principles serve to keep the pastor’s focus on keeping the main thing the main thing and not becoming sidetracked with the many—innumerable—responsibilities that...

Saturday, February 4, 2012

how the sovereignty of God is necessary for Christ's substitutionary death to have any meaning.

“It is a part of sovereignty to transfer the penalty due to the crime of one upon another, and substitute a sufferer, with the sufferer’s own consent, in the place o a criminal, whom he had a mind to deliver from a deserved punishment.God transferred the sins of men upon Christ, and inflicted on him...
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