Preparing our Hearts to Worship In an effort to help you prepare for the July 29, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on theEmotions in the Psalms.I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon…
Preparing our Hearts to Worship In an effort to help you prepare for the July 22, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the Praying the Scripture.I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is…
Preparing our Hearts to Worship In an effort to help you prepare for theJuly 15, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the Emotions in the Psalms.I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon…
The False Prophet False prophets speaks lies and words that their clients want to hear (1Kin 22). They are ‘misled’ and ‘guided astray’ (Isa 9:15-16). Their messages are always “pleasant things” and they “speak illusions” (Isa 30:11) and from their own ‘imagination’ (Ezek 13:17-21). They proclaim peace but peace never happens (Jer 28:9) and Jeremiah uses this…
Miscellaneous Teaching on Prophecy · it is different than revelation, knowledge and words of instruction (1Cor 14:6). · The prophets of old were persecuted and the disciples of the new covenant will have the same kind of treatment (Mat 5:12). · The woman with the 5 husbands declares Jesus to be a prophet based upon his ability to…
Here is a short animated history of the Belgic Confession, one of the standards of our church body.
The accuracy of a Prophet Prophets and there message are to be completely accurate. The test of complete accuracy is a starting point in determining if the message is from God. If the message or the signs accompanying it fail to occur, God is very clear that the ‘the prophet has spoken presumptuously’and ‘that is a message the Lord…
Living parables – Ahijah declares his message to Jeroboam by tearing a robe into 12 pieces and giving 10 pieces to the north and 2 to the south (1Kin 11:29-32). Fictional stories – Nathan weaves a story to convict David of his sin when he has Uriah killed (1Sam 12:1ff). An unnamed prophet does…
Return to Confessions page Part 1: What man ought to believe (Q1-90) Man’s chief End, Revelation, and Scripture (Q1-5) God (Q6-11) God’s Decrees (Q12-14) Creation (Q15-17) Providence (Q18-20) The Covenant of Life, the Fall and Judgment (Q21-29) The Covenant of Grace (Q30-35) The Mediator of the Covenant of Grace (Q36-45) The Work of the Mediator…
Return to Confessions Page FIRST HEAD OF DOCTRINE-Of Divine Predestination Article 1: As all men have sinned in Adam, lie under the curse, and are deserving of eternal death, God would have done no injustice by leaving them all to perish, and delivering them over to condemnation on account of sin, according to the words of the apostle, Romans 3:19 ,”that…