The Long War

Foreword:  This is the last installment on the series  from Modern Reformation, Nov./Dec. Vol. 5 No. 6 1996 issue. To see the complete list and full articles, go to ‘Categories’ from the sidebar and choose the section on The Life of A Justified Sinner. – EmmausTrekker
 
By Dr. Michael S. Horton
Everyone knows St. Augustine , that fourth-century giant, as [...]

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Book Review: The Truth About Man

Book Review: The Truth About Man, by Paul Washer

At the beginning of his classic Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin heads his very first paragraph thus: “Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God”. This observation is strikingly true, and if one would take the time to discuss the gospel in depth [...]

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Let Us Not Sleep As Others Do

Foreword:  This is an excerpt from a devotional sermon entitled “The God of Bethel” taken from  Rev. Murdoch Campbell’s book - Everlasting Love – original posted in The Highway website. The full article can be read through this link.
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We can, dear friends, expect nothing from a godless world or from the multitudes [...]

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Stripped of His Peacock Feathers

(by Arthur Pink, “Unworthiness” 1940)
GRACE is favor shown to the undeserving and ill-deserving.
When Divine grace bestows salvation upon the ill-deserving, it makes them conscious of the infinite favor that has been shown them. Fallen man is naturally proud, self-complacent, and self-righteous.
But wherever the miracle of regenerating grace is wrought–all this is reversed. Its subject is [...]

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Main Difference Between Calvinist and Non-Calvinist View of Saving Grace

The Main Difference Between Calvinist and Non-Calvinist Views of Saving Grace by John Hendryx (from www.reformationtheology.com)
Recently I had am exchange on a message board regarding the particulars of Calvinism. Hopefully you find it helpful:
Visitor #1: I gave up on Calvinism a long time ago.
My response: You mean you gave up on the idea that Jesus [...]

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Who Am I … Really?

Foreword:  This is the 4th installment on the series  from Modern Reformation issue of 1996. For other articles uploaded earlier, go to the sidebar – Categories – and choose ‘The Life of a Justified Sinner’ to take you to all articles under this heading. 
The exposition below provides a good and clear exegesis of the [...]

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How Spurgeon Learned of Grace

Well can I remember the manner in which I learned the Doctrines of Grace in a single instant. Born as all of us are by nature, an ‘Arminian,’ I still believed the old things I had heard continually from the pulpit, and did not see the Grace of God. When I was coming to Christ, [...]

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Key Concepts In Reformation Spirituality

In the foreword on my post last October 12, I mentioned of uploading in this weblog a series of articles from Modern Reformation’s 1996 out-of-print issue entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress – The Life of a Justified Sinner’.  The Reformation that began God began through Martin Luther in the 15th century brought the centrality of the triune God (Theocentric) back into [...]

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Quote from Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)

Never choose to be a worker for God, but once God has placed His call on you, woe be to you if you “turn aside to the right hand or to the left” ( Deuteronomy 5:32  ). We are not here to work for God because we have chosen to do so, but because God has [...]

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When The Shoe Fits

I realize that I may never be like many of the teachers whom I respect especially those who have spent a lifetime of formal biblical studies and ministry. Couple this with every Christian post in WordPress alone and I sometimes begin to think why in the world the electronic media would need another blogger like [...]

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