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#Wisdom Wednesday with Dr. Sean Lucas “What is the Biblical model of church government?” from Reformed Theological Seminary on Vimeo.

#Wisdom Wednesday with Dr. Jim Newheiser “How can I overcome my anger?” from Reformed Theological Seminary on Vimeo.

Here is some research from Barna backing up the claim I have been making in our Adult Sunday School Class on comparative worldviews. This is a very insightful article about the way that worldviews hostile to Christianity are influencing the church and her people. For example, only 17% of practicing Christians have a “biblical worldview”, which Barna defines as: believing that absolute moral truth exists; the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches; Satan is considered to be…

These words written in September 1942 by A.W. Pink, a calvinistic baptist preacher from the last century, might be worth remembering and reflecting upon: “But when error comes into the churches and discipline is relaxed, the Spirit is grieved and His power is withheld, and the evileffects of this become more and more apparent in the country by a rising tide of lawlessness. If the churches persist in a downwardcourse, then the Spirit is quenched and “Ichabod” is written over them,…

            

#Wisdom Wednesday with Nancy Guthrie “How can I help someone who is grieving?” from Reformed Theological Seminary on Vimeo.

#Wisdom Wednesday with Dr. Jim Coffield “What are the possible spiritual issues of depression?” from Reformed Theological Seminary on Vimeo.

“What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies” – Thomas Cranmer This simple statement, if we consider it, will either lead us to greater worship of the Lord and obedience to his Word or it will make us aware of our idolatry and leave us without excuse.  In the first option, we will see our propensity for loving things other than God and be repentant. After which we will refocus our love on the Lord and receive…