Forgiveness

The Missing Message

Nick Batzig
Sep 28, 2016
While preparing talks for a forthcoming Reformation Conference, I happened across Heiko Oberman's outstanding 1961 Theology Today lecture, " Preaching and the Word in the Reformation ," in which he set down what he believed to have been the three most important aspects of the preaching among the...

Saving Ourselves and Others

Mark Johnston
Sep 6, 2016
Those who take the Bible seriously believe that its message is coherent and consistent. It does not contradict itself. Although it is presented through the multiple voices of its human authors, those voices ultimately speak with one voice: that of God himself. So, when we come across statements in...

Saving Faith, Part 3, the Holy Embrace

David Garner
Apr 13, 2016
Blessed with the gift of saving faith, the believer is now able to hear what he could not hear before, to believe sincerely what he rejected outrightly. The sheep hear the voice of the One they now know as “my Shepherd” (Psalm 23:1). Because of the radical change, such active listening streams...

A Lament for Charleston

Otis W. Pickett
Jun 19, 2015
"Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the...

A Lament for Charleston

Otis W. Pickett
Jun 19, 2015
"Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the...

'Who do I say that I am?'

Blair Smith
Nov 26, 2014
"Be holy, for I am holy" ~ 1 Peter 1:16 One of the most difficult things to do is tell the truth...about ourselves. The church prides itself on being a bastion of truth in a world of lies, yet her members often forget that they cannot preserve the truth unless they first preserve it about...

I forgive you, but please don't call it 'giving grace'

Megan Hill
Aug 25, 2014
What should I do when my husband forgets to buy milk on the way home from work? When my kids leave their new bikes out in the rain? When fellow church members are curt or critical on Sunday mornings? Increasingly, I hear the godly action in these scenarios described as "giving grace." And, while I...

Chapter 15.5,6, part two

Chad Van Dixhoorn
Apr 26, 2013
v. Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man's duty to endeavour to repent of his particular sins particularly. vi. As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon thereof upon which, and the forsaking of them, he...