How can we bring the great truths of the Bible, including the glorious doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone, to the people? Part of the answer for the English Reformers of the 1500’s was to publish an official book of sermons or homilies to be read – in the correct order – in churches each… Continue reading Why We Can’t Save Ourselves: Of the Misery of All Mankind
Tag: Total Depravity
Jesus was a Calvinist!
The name John Calvin is a bad word to many people, but I hope to show you that Calvin’s theology should be our theology because it was Jesus’ theology and the Bible’s theology. John Calvin lived in the 1500’s in Geneva, Switzerland. He was and is one of the hero’s of the Christian faith. He… Continue reading Jesus was a Calvinist!
You were zombies
In Ephesians 2:1-3 Paul describes the Ephesian believers’ hopeless condition before they had come to experience the power of God in Christ Jesus which had transformed their lives – this of course is true for all believers. According to the Paul they were (spiritually) “dead”, which figuratively describes the state of being lost or under… Continue reading You were zombies
A Christian response to crime
A few years ago a family in our church was robbed at gunpoint. Three armed man confronted the husband in his own garage. The gunmen entered the home and made the family sit down as they rummaged through the house taking anything of value. Thankfully they left the family physically unharmed as they made off… Continue reading A Christian response to crime
Free Will vs. Total Depravity
Can we choose God? Would we ever want to choose God? Do we have a free will? These questions have caused controversy amongst Christians throughout history. The Reformed Doctrine of Total Depravity speaks to this. Total depravity is the teaching that, since the Fall of Man (Genesis 3), every area of the life of a… Continue reading Free Will vs. Total Depravity