Tag: theology
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The Fourth Commandment, Corporate Worship, and the Strength of Culture
Corporate worship services at our church begin with a call to worship. A passage of Scripture, usually taken from the Psalms, is read aloud reminding the congregation of God’s invitation to worship and give thanks. We come before the Lord responsively, not presumptively. What’s interesting about those invitations to worship is they sound more like…
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Mild Religion and the Threat to Civilization
The man with “mild religion” has no interest in obedience to Christ. He’ll occasionally show up to church, shirt collar in the clutches of his momma, wife, or girlfriend, but he has no passion for honoring Christ by the way he thinks, talks, or behaves.
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Question 13 | Didn’t Jesus Deliberately Hide His Message So People Wouldn’t Repent?
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Question 12 | Aren’t Our Good Works Predestined?
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Question 11 | Isn’t Our Heavenly Inheritance Fully Guaranteed?
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Developing the Christian Virtue of Intolerance
It honors Christ when you cultivate a godly hatred for false worship, evil thinking, and godless living. Speaking as Earth’s King, Jesus said, “Whoever is not with me is against me” (Matthew 12:30). Either you actively promote Christ in worship and life, or you are his enemy.
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Only the First Commandment Makes Men Equal
Apart from God, there will never be any sort of true human equality. It is only “under God” that men become equal. “The law is no respecter of persons, because God is no respecter of persons. He is the Father of both the humble and the proud.”
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Preparing to Read Theonomy in Christian Ethics
Greenville Seminary required new students to read Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book [1]as we prepared for our studies. It was a very valuable book! One of his instructions for reading mom-fiction is to peruse the fly-leaves, bibliographies and indexes. Here are the take-always from Bahnsen’s Theonomy in Christian Ethics.
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The Courageous Death of Christian People
You can face death with confidence only when this life has become less valuable than the next; when your love and longing for Christ is greater than for the temporary trappings of this world. When that happens, death becomes desirable rather than despised. You may say with the Apostle Paul, “My desire is to depart…
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The First Commandment Requires Courageous Loyalty
The greatest commandment summarizes the first four of the Ten Commandments. And the first of these ten is, “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). Elton Trueblood calls this command “the allocation of priority.”[1] The one, true God demands nothing less than absolute loyalty. The first priority of every man on earth…
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It is a Shame for a Woman to Speak in Church
The church that honors Christ will worship him how he wants to be worshiped. It is his divine command that qualified men lead his worship.
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Preaching is the Pinnacle of the Worship Mountain
Preparing and preaching sermons takes diligent, prayerful preparation. Therefore, ministers must devote themselves to studying, explaining and applying the Scriptures.
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