For Calvin, baptism is at least a "promise of salvation" and this is in its application to children.
Read MoreOne Baptism: For Infants & Adults /
There is only one baptism, for us and our children. Our approach toward baptized children should be to treat them as what they are according to what God has said of them: Christians.
Read MoreAugustine on Debt and Words /
"Yet woe to those who are silent about you because, though loquacious with verbosity, they have nothing to say.” —St. Augustine, Confessions 1.4
Read MoreAn Introduction to Calvin's Geneva Catechism /
For all the clamor over his name, many continue to only read and apply popular portions of his thought. Hopefully, this catechism can work as a gateway to a renewed emphasis on truly Calvinistic thought.
Read MoreCalvin on Spirit and Word /
"Hence we infer that this is a most valuable treasure of the Church, that he has chosen for himself a habitation in it, to dwell in the hearts of believers by his Spirit, and next to preserve among them the doctrine of his gospel." - Calvin
Read MoreSermon: We And Our Children /
Joey Pipa's recent sermon celebrated and challenged a congregation in their new catechism school by preaching on Deuteronomy 6:1-9. This is a great sermon on the duties of covenantal living--enjoy!
Read MoreDort on Gospel Threats /
"God preserves, continues, and completes this work by the hearing and reading of the gospel, by meditation on it, by its exhortations, threats, and promises." - Canons of Dort
Read MoreWalter Marshall on Faith in Christ /
"Therefore, though we receive a perfect Christ by faith, yet the measure and degree of enjoying him is imperfect; and we hope still, so long as we are in this world, to enjoy him in a higher degree of perfection than we have done." - Walter Marshall
Read MoreBavinck on The Image of God and Creation /
"The image of God is much too rich for it to be fully realized in a single human being, however richly gifted that human being may be." - Bavinck
Read MorePredestination Not An All-Encompassing Principle /
"God's predestinating or determining will is an important element in the Reformed system, but it is not an all-encompassing principle." - Willem J. van Asselt
Read MoreCalvin on Science and Sight /
"He does not call us up into heaven, he only proposes things which lie open before our eyes." - John Calvin
Read MoreCalvin on Baptism in 1 Peter 3:21 /
We then cannot otherwise derive benefit from baptism, than by having all our thoughts fixed on the death and the resurrection of Christ.
Read MoreUrisnus on Fruits and True Faith /
"Fruits distinguish true faith from that faith which is merely historical and temporary" — Zacharias Ursinus
Read MoreDaily Edition: The OPC Republication Report (Updated) /
Past decades have seen an emergence of a Lutheran-Reformed hybrid theology in which the Law/Gospel distinction is expressed more as a dichotomy between works and faith (Lutheran) rather than the distinction between the Old administration of the Covenant of Grace and the New administration (Reformed). Additionally, some have begun teaching that the Mosaic Covenant is a republication of the Covenant of Works made with Adam--not simply that the same Law is present in both covenants, but that "in some sense" Israel is brought into a Covenant of Works in which it should merit the land of promise.
Read MoreJohn Calvin on Our Invincible Weapons /
"We are really and effectually supplied with invincible weapons to subdue the flesh, if we partake as we ought of the efficacy of Christ’s death." - John Calvin
Read MoreSermon: The Parable of the Dragnet /
"Church discipline is a warning of the end of the age before the end of the age." - Pastor Peter VanDoodewaard
Read MoreGod's Gracious Giving /
“The rich, equally with the poor, should remember that none of the things which they have will do them good, unless God grant them the use of them” - John Calvin
Read MoreDaily Edition: The Lord's Day Evening /
In past generations, the common practice of biblical churches was to bookend the Lord's Day with worship: morning and evening. While this practice has largely fallen into neglect and is often portrayed as an archaic legalism, the more confessionally minded Reformed churches tend to continue the practice.
Read MoreChrist's Body for You /
Now we tack on "God's Promises are True" and the little sinners in our family smile.
Read MoreOur Created Nature: Above All We Are Religious /
Our Created Nature: embodied, rational, voluntary, emotional, social, communicative, and above all, religious.
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