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In recent years, many denominations have struggled to train enough men to fill vacating pulpits. Reformed churches are no exception. Matthew Everhard, a PCA pastor and adjunct professor at RPTS, made this point in one of his recent videos on the current state of seminaries. I am a big fan
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How should the church, broadly, and Christians specifically, interact with the surrounding culture? This is a question many Christians have wrestled with deeply and earnestly. I have written elsewhere addressing ideas from those who advocate applying Old Testament civil law directly to modern society (theonomy), as well as those who
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In Athanasius of Alexandria’s writings, he recounts a non-Arian resistance to applying the term homoousios (of the same substance) to Christ’s relationship to the Father. The concern was from some of the Eastern Bishops at the Council of Nicaea, and there objection to the term was not founded
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If you spent the next few months visiting a different church every Sunday, you would encounter a remarkable variety of services. Some would feature praise bands singing popular songs from Bethel, Hillsong, or Elevation, others would sing from a hymnal. The sermons at some Churches would feature verse-by-verse exposition, others
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Covenant theology can be a difficult subject to grasp. The books of Hebrews, Romans, and Galatians all discuss the various covenants God established between Himself and His people, revealing points of both similarity and dissimilarity. I have found that thinking about covenant theology through the analogy of the lifecycle of
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1 Corinthians 5 is not a passage that is frequently brought up in discussions about Christ and culture; yet it is highly instructive. Paul directly addresses a case of sexual immorality within the Corinthian church and sharply rebukes them for failing to deal with it promptly. He commands the church
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A number of years ago I heard someone from my church talk about a local bank called Christian Credit Union. Growing up in a small town with only a handful of big-name banks, I had never heard of a Christian bank before. I thought it sounded like a good idea;