….since I posted anything or anyone mentioned Lady Gaga on the ref21 page. Thus, in the interest of smashing the default chauvinist consensus so offensively articulated by the Trinity of Evil, Trueman, Trotter, and Levy, I am back by popular…
Rick Phillips: The Family Privileges Working from Luke 11:11-13, and other texts, Rick Phillips taught us about the tremendous privileges of being adopted into God’s family. The first such privilege is the tender care we receive from our Father.…
Derek Thomas: Behold, What Love! In a warm, passionate manner, Derek Thomas introduced us to the doctrine of adoption. A quote from Calvin helped set the tenor for the address, “the first title of the Spirit is the Spirit of…
We just finished up a convicting, encouraging pre-conference. In a manner similar to a good hard run, I was simultaneously exhausted and refreshed at the end of it – but in my spirit rather than my body. Rick Phillips…
Infants do not induce, or cooperate in, their own procreation and birth; no more can those who are “dead in trespasses and sins” prompt the quickening operation of God’s Spirit within them (see Eph. 2:1–10). Spiritual vivification is a free,…
Why should you come to PCRT Grand Rapids? The doctrine of adoption is a truth that many Christians overlook. After all, what could be more astonishing – more unbelievable – than the great fact that the doctrine of adoption teaches:…
Chris Gordon has written a helpful article concerning Harold Camping’s possible motive behind his latest prediction about Christ’s return. As many of you know, Camping and his unfortunate followers are proclaiming May 21, 2011 as the return of Christ and…
From a sermon preached by John Piper on Romans 2:6-10: I feel such a burden for us as a church to swim against the tide of almost every current in our culture. More and more and more, America is a…
I am really wanting a copy of Crossway’s The Four Holy Gospels illustrated by Makato Fujimura. The above painting is Fujimura’s attempt to capture something of the Bible’s shortest verse – “Jesus wept” (Luke 13:34). You can read his reflections…
At the 2008 Together for the Gospel conference R.C. Sproul delivered an extraordinary message on the nature of Christ’s atonement as anticipated through the Old Testament sacrificial system. It is a powerful antidote against the current trend to deny the…
