Semper Reformanda

Semper Reformanda by Michael Horton If you’ve been in Protestant circles for very long, whether conservative or liberal, you may have heard the phrase “reformed and always reforming” or sometimes just “always reforming.” I hear it a lot these days, especially from friends who want our Reformed churches to be more open to moving beyond the [...]

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The Necessity of the Pattern of Sound Teaching

Excerpt from D. A. Carson’s sermon on the Motivation for Ministry (On Paul’s second letter to Timothy chapter 1:13 – “Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.”) It’s not just a series of isolated propositions but a pattern of sound teaching….Listen, [...]

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Unmasking A Wolf

In one of the leading Philippine internet dailies, the leader (or ‘pastor’ as people refer to) of a popular religious group in the country hosted a sumptuous gathering for ‘presidentiables’ in the forthcoming elections in May 2010. Everyone was hoping to hear whom he will endorse as the country’s next president. But he decided to [...]

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10 Scriptural Reasons Not to Be Involved with Rick Warren’s “Broad Way” Christianity

by Warren Smith (from A “Wonderful” Deception) Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven movement has, in a relatively short period of time, become what TIME magazine has referred to as a “Purpose Driven empire.”1 The word empire is defined in the dictionary as “supreme rule; absolute power or authority; dominion.” It also means “an extensive social or [...]

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Book Review: Why We’re Not Emergent

  Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)   By Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck Reviewed by Jonathan Leeman Foreword by David F. Wells Moody Press, 2008, 256 pp, $14.99 “They just don’t get it.” I predict that’s what the naysayers of Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck’s new book Why We’re Not [...]

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What is Discipleship?

I have transcribed the introduction below from the White Horse Inn broadcast on December 6, 2009 regarding the subject – EmmausTrekker   What is Discipleship? by Michael Horton Once we sit down and really become a disciple, a listener, a learner, once we really do, first of all, receive from Jesus the truth, the doctrine that He wants [...]

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No New Revelation!

  by John Calvin, from the Institutes of John Calvin and Calvin’s Commentary on Hebrews “For in [Christ] ‘all treasures of knowledge and wisdom are hid’ (Colossians 2:3) with such great abundance and richness that either to hope for or to seek any new addition to these treasures is truly to arouse God’s wrath and [...]

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Heresies

by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (*) We have seen that the devil is never quite so subtle, and never quite so successful, as when he succeeds in persuading people that he does not exist at all! That, as we have suggested, was his supreme masterpiece, and it is certainly a part of our problem at the [...]

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Articulus Stantis Et Cadentis Ecclesiae

Foreword I have posted here snippets from an article written by R. C. Sproul on the current situation regarding the biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone in Christ alone. This is one doctrine that has been maligned for nearly two millennia, even from the early days of the apostles.  As Sproul noted, till today much is being [...]

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