Mediated Worship and Unmediated Worship
…the worship service is not an exercise in worship but a practicing of worship. It is not, of course, that the practicing of worship consists exclusively in going to church. Rather, it must be the one, grand, royal action of our whole life, in all our thoughts,...Atonement Inaugurates Jubilee
I was reading a Charles Spurgeon sermon this morning, and I learned something that I hadn’t previously realized: the Day of Jubilee took place on the same day as the Day of Atonement: [29] “And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on...John’s Warning Concerning the Church
Post Series on 1 John 2:15-27: John’s Warning Concerning the World (1 John 2:15-17) John’s Warning Concerning the Church (1 John 2:18-27) The Anointing of the Holy One (1 John 2:18-27) Although John warns his flock about the dangers they face from the...More light on the Word and Spirit from Berkhof
This post is a continuation of On the Efficacy of the Sacraments and Word, Spirit, and Dry Bones, in which I have been trying to get my head around the differences between Lutheran and Reformed understandings of the relationship between the Holy Spirit, the Word of...Word, Spirit, and Dry Bones
In a previous post, I quoted Charles Hodge’s argument that the Spirit of God alone gives efficacy to the Word and to the sacraments: There is, therefore, a strict analogy, according to the Reformed doctrine, between the Word and the sacraments as a means of...Download My Free eBook
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