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The Humbleness Election Provides

The Humbleness Election Provides

While all believers acknowledge God is omnipotent and omnipresent, the Lord’s involvement in the spiritual regeneration of Christians separates those in the Reformed faith from Arminians.

The doctrine of election is frequently criticized, with people often attacking those in the Reformed circle for denouncing free will, the need for evangelism, or providing a sense of superiority.

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Dr. Samuel T. Logan Jr. Reviews Matthew V. Everhard's "A Theology of Joy"

Dr. Samuel T. Logan Jr. Reviews Matthew V. Everhard's "A Theology of Joy"

 A Review offered by Samuel T. Logan Jr., Ph.D.: Matthew V. Everhard, A Theology of Joy: Jonathan Edwards and Eternal Happiness in the Holy Trinity. Middletown, DE: JESociety Press, 2018. Pp. 235 $18.00, paper.

Is God angry with me? Or does God love me? Which is it?

Good and fair questions, often asked by many of us – sometimes publicly, often privately.

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Are the Ten Commandments Still Valid?

Are the Ten Commandments Still Valid?

From Editor: This article by Dr. Risimati S. Hobyane (South Africa) is a chapter in the upcoming WRF/WEA book on The Decalogue and is posted here in its entirety. Rev. Hobyane argues for the currency of the Decalogue in the modern world. In the course of his argument he looks at the role of the Decalogue in the New Testament, its relationship with the work of Christ and how it is treated in selected Reformed confessions.

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The Relation between Biblical Law and Christian Faith

The Relation between Biblical Law and Christian Faith

From Editor: This article by Dr. Glenn N. Davies (Australia) is a chapter in the upcoming WRF/WEA book on The Decalogue and is posted here in its entirety. Rev. Davies challenges believers understand the importance of "the continuing application of the Decalogue in the life of the believer." He calls upon all Christians to repeat with the psalmist: "If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life. (Psalm 119:92-93)"

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God’s Commandments Require Us to Read and Think Carefully

God’s Commandments Require Us to Read and Think Carefully

From Editor: This article by Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher (Germany) is a chapter in the upcoming WRF/WEA book on The Decalogue and is posted here in its entirety. Dr. Schirrmacher argues for the importance of understanding that the "Bible does not give us God’s commandments in a unilinear fashion; the Bible gives us God’s commands through a spectrum which runs from foundational statements to case examples."

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The Decalogue Project: Discipleship and the Blessing of Meditating on God’s Law

The Decalogue Project: Discipleship and the Blessing of Meditating on God’s Law

From Editor: This article by Dr. Thomas K. Johnson (United States and Czech Republic) is an introductory chapter in the upcoming WRF/WEA book on The Decalogue and is posted here in its entirety. Dr. Thomas invites "you, as disciples and students who belong to Jesus, to join in the process of lifelong learning from our covenant God. Blessed are those who meditate on God’s law!"

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Written in Stone

Written in Stone

From Editor: This article by Dr. Thomas K. Johnson (United States and Czech Republic) is a chapter in the upcoming WRF/WEA book on The Decalogue and is posted here in its entirety. Dr. Thomas challenges believers not to look upon God's law with the terrible feeling of those who "only know its condemning use", but to understand that "once we really know God's grace, we can see what a treasure God's law is... We can say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law' (Psalm 119:97)."

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The Ten Commandments: Given by God?

The Ten Commandments: Given by God?

From Editor: This article by Professor Pierre Berthoud (France) is a chapter in the upcoming WRF/WEA book on The Decalogue and is posted here in its entirety. In the chapter, Prof. Berthoud offers a very important reflection about the nature and origin of the Commandments. He masterfully shows how they are "an amazing and challenging invitation to reconsider and practice, within a dismantled and broken world that has lost its bearings, the “law of Christ” as fully manifested and accomplished in Jesus of Nazareth!"

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May   a   Christian   Go   to   Court?

May a Christian Go to Court?

Is the use of some kind of conflict resolution tied to legal process sensible and justified (e.g., witnesses, defense, judges, independent appraisers, mediators, legal transcripts)? Many Christians object, at least in theory, to going to court or to using the methods of a constitutional state. They object all the more that Christians go to court against each other or use the methods of the constitutional state in connection with Christian activities or churches.

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What's Galatians Really About?

What's Galatians Really About?

Here are two diagnostic questions for Christians that need very honest answers. Here’s the first: if you go to church and also are in a Bible study and prayer group, do they complement each other, so that you get something from one that you don’t from the other? What, specifically?

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Law or Spirit? Galatians Between Legalism and Antinomianism

Law or Spirit? Galatians Between Legalism and Antinomianism

“Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" Paul, Galatians 4:16

"For Christ has freed us from the curse of the Law, not from obedience to it."  Martin Luther, Sermon on Galatians 3: 23 - 24

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Dr. Richard Mouw Describes "The Worldview of the Synod of Dort"

Dr. Richard Mouw Describes "The Worldview of the Synod of Dort"

Not long after the conclusion of the Synod of Dordrecht the Puritan party in the Church of England proposed that the Canons of Dort be adopted as an official Anglican confessional standard.  

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