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Joel Osteen and the Glory Story

October 1, 2007

Those who preach a gospel of “a personal relationship with God” fail to realize that everyone has a relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal or as a justified co-heir with Christ.

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Doesn’t God Want Us to be Happy?

October 1, 2007

God is not abstractly interested in ensuring that we are either successful or unsuccessful; he has far larger plans for us.

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The All-Sufficiency of Christ

June 1, 2007

Paul's profound declaration of just how radically extensive and exclusive is Christ's mediation, as a free gift.

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Calvin and the Worship of God

April 1, 2007

It is ironic that many Reformed people today are either not acquainted with or do not follow Calvin's view of worship.

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Justification: What the Debate is All About

February 1, 2007

An explanation of the various aspects of the Reformed doctrine of justificaiton, with special attention given to how movements such as the New Perspective on Paul and Federal Vision have posed challenges to this doctrine in the present day.

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Christ in the Covenants

February 1, 2007

A proper understanding of the covenant of works and the covenant of grace is important for seeing the gospel in the Pentateuch.

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Law and Gospel

October 2, 2006

Once the Law’s legitimate claim against us is satisfied, the gospel and the law conspire together to give us both grace and direction for our Christian life, in relation to God and our neighbors. 

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The History of Covenant Theology

October 1, 2006

While there has always been a theology of the covenants throughout church history, the Reformation recovery of the Gospel and the biblical distinction between grace and works made it possible for Reformed theology to construct a detailed and fruitful covenant theology.

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Bioethics: New Questions to New Technologies

October 1, 2006

How cultural developments pose ever-new moral challenges.

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The Certainty of Death

August 1, 2006

Mrs. Hilda Ozinga, a widow, shares with W. Robert Godfrey about grieving from her own experience and others'.

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Did Calvin’s Successors Distort his Doctrine of Predestination?

July 1, 2006

The assumption that Reformed theologians made predestination central resulted from a misunderstanding of scholastic method.

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Coming in From the Outside

June 2, 2006

What the Orthodox Presbyterian Church has to offer to those who come from outside of the denomination.

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What Makes Something a Sacrament?

June 1, 2006

We look for “god” at all the high places but the true God inhabits the low places-when and where he has promised to be.

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Remembering a Forgotten Covenant

April 1, 2006

God's covenant with Levi, refered to twice by Malachi, has been relatively forgotten.

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The Myth of Influence

March 31, 2006

Should Christians adopt a notion of influence from politics and business–compromise, cooperation, and intention ambiguity?

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Faithful Vigilance

March 1, 2006

The Apostle Paul's warning to the Ephesian church of their need to be vigilant is a warning that is necessary for every church in every age.

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Conquest and Settlement

February 1, 2006

The books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth reveal God’s work in history and illumine two redemptive themes: First, safety comes through faith and obedience; second, disobedience is of no small consequence.

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Reformed Theology vs. Hyper-Calvinism

November 1, 2005

An examination of the important differences between Reformed theology and hyper-Calvinism.

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Walking Straight Toward Gospel Truth

July 1, 2005

To probe the source of Peter's stumble, we look to Galatians 2–where the Scriptures make clear that behavior flows from the heart.

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Protestants and the Pope

July 1, 2005

The silence of Protestants to false claims about the papacy said much about the state of Protestantism today.

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