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    Comfort: Blessing Or Idol?
    • Oct 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    Comfort: Blessing Or Idol?

    “Cozy coze.” It’s one of my favorite sayings around the home. When we light a fire or we get our jammies on or bundle up in a blanket or...
    Surprised By Love
    • Oct 7, 2021
    • 3 min

    Surprised By Love

    The Counterintuitive Love of Jesus For Sinners “But how could anybody love me? I’ve made such a mess of my life.” Whether we feel like we...
    Faith, Without Works, Is Dead!
    • Aug 19, 2021
    • 4 min

    Faith, Without Works, Is Dead!

    The Connection Between Works And Your Salvation Martin Luther was frustrated with Jesus’ brother, James. James wrote that “faith by...
    Heresy: A Helpful Term?
    • Jul 16, 2021
    • 5 min

    Heresy: A Helpful Term?

    The Meaning And Use Of This Historical Word You might be a heretic if you say something like, “There was a time when Jesus was not.” This...
    The Danger Of Knowing The Right Things
    • Jul 8, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Danger Of Knowing The Right Things

    Why The Christian’s Knowledge Is Not Enough “He’s all talk.” We know what this means. A person boasts with their lips about something,...
    The EPC's Joy-Filled Distinctives
    • Jun 24, 2021
    • 4 min

    The EPC's Joy-Filled Distinctives

    The EPC’s Joy-Filled Distinctives 6 Robust Distinctives To Celebrate I’ve seen smile after smile and heard laughter around every corner...
    The Right and Wrong Way To Worship
    • Jun 10, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Right and Wrong Way To Worship

    “Jesus’ name wasn’t even mentioned!” I exclaimed in exasperation to a fellow pastor as we left the sanctuary. We had attended what was...
    Justification and Indulgences?
    • Jul 18, 2013
    • 2 min

    Justification and Indulgences?

    Can we earn our forgiveness with God? For many centuries of the Christian church, the issue of how we are saved from our sins and...
    Sermon: Faith and God’s Sovereignty
    • Nov 9, 2012
    • 1 min

    Sermon: Faith and God’s Sovereignty

    Here’s a sermon from PR 722 at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. The task was to write a sermon that aimed at convincing my fellow...
    John Calvin: November’s Theologian
    • Nov 1, 2012
    • 2 min

    John Calvin: November’s Theologian

    Studying Homiletics at Gordon-Conwell has been a great experience over the past few months. God is shaping me as a man and as a preacher...
    What is the Atonement?
    • Oct 29, 2012
    • 1 min

    What is the Atonement?

    The doctrine of the atonement is the means by which God redeems His people from sin. The purpose of the sermon is to draw our hearts to...
    TGCNE Conference
    • Oct 24, 2012
    • 7 min

    TGCNE Conference

    Tim Keller: The Gospel Shaped Ministry (Pre-Conference Message) Keller called those in ministry in New England to communicate the Gospel...
    Reformation Day
    • Oct 31, 2011
    • 0 min

    Reformation Day

    • Feb 19, 2010
    • 1 min

    Timeless Quotes: Calvin

    “…Not only does he sustain the universe (as he once founded it) by his boundless might, regulate it by his wisdom, preserve it by his ...
    Tim Keller on Issues Facing the Western Church
    • Feb 12, 2010
    • 2 min

    Tim Keller on Issues Facing the Western Church

    Timothy Keller has raised quite a few profound points regarding issues that are currently facing the “western church.”  Check out the...
    • Feb 10, 2010
    • 2 min

    Calvin’s View of Canonicity

    In Systematic Theology with Bruce McCormack, we spent a few days discussing the foundation of Scripture.  When historical criticism is...
    • Feb 6, 2010
    • 1 min

    Timeless Quotes: Augustine

    “Our own assertion, on the contrary, is this: that the human will is divinely assisted to do the right in such manner that, besides man’s...
    • Feb 5, 2010
    • 3 min

    The Affectual Effect of Calvin’s Institutes

    Jonathan Edwards once wrote a book titled “The Religious Affections” highlighting the power God has upon man in the affections. ...
    • Jan 20, 2010
    • 1 min

    Timeless Quotes: Karl Barth

    “In the beginning, before time and space as we know them, before creation, before there was any reality distinct from God which could be...
    • Oct 2, 2009
    • 1 min

    The Hinge of the Reformation?

    JI Packer states with regards to Luther’s Bondage of the Will: “Here was the crucial issue: whether God is the author, not merely of...
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