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Month November 2009
The Immorality of Heresy
An excellent post from Martin Downes: The New Testament connects truth with godliness, and error with immorality. Paul speaks in Titus 1:1 about the knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness (cf. 1 Timothy 6:3), and in 2 Timothy…
Can We Trust the Bible?
On June 20, 2009 an important conference was held held at Westminster Chapel in London. The name of the event was “The Bible and Church Conference” and was sponsored by Tyndale House. The purpose of the conference was to argue…
Having Conscience in a Culture of Death
From an article by Wesley J. Smith in the December 2009 issue of First Things: Over the past fifty years, the purposes and practices of medicine have changed radically. Where medical ethics was once life-affirming, today’s treatments and medical procedures…
Why Doctrine Matters
The following article by Stephen Rees (originally published in Banner of Truth) can be found in the articles section under the Recommended Resources page at the Church of the Saviour website. Why should Christians be familiar with the great doctrines…
Introverts in the church
As a confirmed INTJ (that’s Myers-Briggs personality speak for introvert, intuitive, thinking, judgment), I’ve struggled at time with my personality. For example, my wife loves to entertain large groups of people at our home; I prefer to have one other…
Blog 229: 4.17.40 – 4.17.45
One of the other debated issues in the Lord’s Supper, in addition to the question of presence, is that of fencing the table. Who may participate? What does it mean to eat and drink unworthily? Who is worthy? Who is unworthy? Calvin takes…
Why it is important to get the Gospel right…
“Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed…
Blog 228: 4.17.35 – 4.17.39
Calvin continues his discussion of the errant Roman Catholic view of the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper by prattling on about one of his favorite subjects to rail upon: superstition and idolatry. The two, for Calvin, go together like ham…
Blog 227: 4.17.33 – 4.17.34
Calvin continues extolling the virtues of the spiritual presence of Christ in the sacrament of communion over and against repudiating the errors of the physical presence of Christ within the sacraments (the view of transubstantiation). One of the dangers that…