As the holiday season approaches, families across the globe eagerly anticipate the joy and wonder that come with the festivities. However, in our household, we've made the decision to forgo the traditional inclusion of Santa Claus. While it may seem like an unconventional choice to which people often call me a grinch, or ask me [...]
Pastor Greg O'Brien of Christ Church OPC joins us to discuss some important principles to understand about worship. The Principles of Worship In episode 047, Pastor Greg helps us understand the difference between the Regulative and Normative Principles of Worship. The big question: How does GOD want to be worshipped? Often times, we try [...]
1. Christ Jesus is the only one that can save sinners. Not your money. Not your priest. Not Mary. Not even your own works. 2. Salvation cannot be bought. It doesn’t matter how much you give to the church or other ministries. Your money cannot save you. Only Jesus can. 3. Your [...]
Podcast episode will be available on all podcast platforms on November 8, 2021 What is ‘Reformation’? Simply put, reformation is the act of changing an institution, process, or way of thinking. We use reformation to mean that we change our beliefs and practices to align them with what the Word of God [...]
October 31st. Most people associate this day with Halloween. But Protestant Christians have remembered this day for a reason far more important. On this day in 1517, a German monk named Martin Luther would protest the catholic church in a way that would forever change church history. But why October 31st? The following day, November [...]
Excerpt from The Doctrine of Repentance, By Thomas Watson. (Chapter 3, Ingredient 6) The sixth ingredient in repentance is a turning from sin. Reformation is left last to bring up the rear of repentance. What if one could, with Niobe, weep himself into a stone if he did not weep out sin? True repentance, like [...]
Excerpt from The Doctrine of Repentance, By Thomas Watson. (Chapter 3, Ingredient 5) The fifth ingredient in repentance is hatred of sin. The Schoolmen distinguished two objects of holy hatred: hatred of abominations, and hatred of enmity. Firstly, there is a hatred or loathing of abominations: “You shall loathe yourselves for your iniquities” (Eze 36.31). [...]
Excerpt from The Doctrine of Repentance, By Thomas Watson. (Chapter 3, Ingredient 4) The fourth ingredient in repentance is shame: “that they may be ashamed of their iniquities” (Eze 43.10). Blushing is the color of virtue. When the heart has been made black with sin, grace makes the face red with blushing: “I am ashamed [...]
Excerpt from The Doctrine of Repentance, By Thomas Watson. (Chapter 3, Ingredient 3) Sorrow is such a vehement passion that it must vent. It vents itself at the eyes by weeping, and at the tongue by confession: “The children of Israel stood and confessed their sins” (Neh. 9.2). “I will go and return to [...]
Excerpt from The Doctrine of Repentance, By Thomas Watson. (Chapter 3, Ingredient 2) I will be sorry for my sin (Psalm 38. 18) Ambrose calls sorrow “the embittering of the soul.” The Hebrew word “to be sorrowful” signifies “to have the soul,” as it were, “crucified.” This must be so in true repentance: “They [...]
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