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Mercy to Sinners
02/03/2021 | Mercy to Sinners Did you know it brings glory to God when you seek his mercy? Nehemiah chapter 9 presents Israel’s repentance and request for mercy. In this chapter, we see the people have come together and they are praying, several of the Levites are praying, and they are reflecting on God’s glory…
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Pray & Watch
“And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night” (Nehemiah 4:9). Nehemiah, as an unlikely character, sets the standard for the church’s response to adversity. I’ll explain why he was an unlikely character in just a second. First though, as he was leading the reconstruction of…
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Beauty From Chaos
What is the true work of the Holy Spirit? How do you know where the Spirit of God is working? Maybe you have seen or participated in a “worship” service in which people are dancing, running around, and speaking in “tongues.” “This,” they would say, “is the evidence of the work of the Holy Spirit.”…
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Faith Over Fear
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods. For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on…
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On Burroughs’ Gospel Worship
Many, perhaps most, Christians believe that God’s worship must be regulated. For this majority, worship is regulated by sincerity and ability to evoke “authentic” emotions. I recently heard this comment, “I used to believe dance had no place in worship until I saw someone perform a ballet to Psalm 23. It brought me to tears.…
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I Don’t Want to Know…
“And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah…” -Jeremiah 24:7a Certain of my family members actually enjoy watching a show called Dr. Pimple Popper. The title says it all doesn’t it? Occasionally, one of those family members will say, “Hey, come watch her lance this cyst.” The very thought…
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On the Education of Children
There are numerous issues in public education that should cause Christian parents to, at the very least, take a long pause before inserting their children into them. Some things to consider: public schools fail to educate in the truth, fail to discipline children as they require, and embrace the goals of the cultural revolution. In…
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John Cassian & Westminster Christology
Introduction John Cassian lived in the late 4th and early 5th centuries. My first interaction with him came during research for a paper on the Second Council of Orange held in 529 AD. Cassian was one of the first men to crystallize the semi-Pelagian view. A disciple of Augustine, Prosper of Aquitaine, wrote a response…
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Thankfulness
We have much to be thankful for. Please allow me a few moments to share with you some of those things. Meet some of the ladies and professor’s wives from GPTS. Saturday the president’s wife (Mrs. P) hosted a Seminary Wives Brunch at her home. Here we were preparing to say our goodbyes to the…
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Stretching Our Faith
“For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink ; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the…
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Book Review: How is the Gold Become Dim (Morton Smith)
In December 1973, Dr. Morton H. Smith was elected the first Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in America. This new denomination of conservative Southern Presbyterians had been formed as the result of a break from the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS). The movement towards a split from the PCUS had been many…
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Book Review: Fighting the Good Fight (D.G. Hart and John Muether)
The founding and subsequent growth of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church is the story of a denomination’s sincere desire to maintain faithfulness to the Scriptures and their Reformed summation as contained in the Westminster Standards. It’s a story of how this desire was born, as it were, through a period of intense pangs. D.G. Hart and…
