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The Apostles' Creed, part 2 "I Believe"

            The Creed starts with the obvious: I believe…  That said, it is so obvious that it is often skipped over to get to the particulars and to wrestle with the controversial.  Consider why this is such an important ...

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The Apostles' Creed, part 1

Two years ago we used the Children’s Shorter Catechism in our public worship, last year we confessed the entire Heidelberg Catechism and this year we will focus our attention on the Ecumenical Creeds of the Christian Church: The Apostle’s, Nicene and Athanasian.  Evangelicals have ...

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Sacraments

Thus far we have been thinking about covenant theology and have covered the three major covenants of this system: covenant of redemption made with the members of the Trinity before creation; the covenant of works made with Adam and subsequently with the second Adam, Christ, wherein perfect and ...

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God's People

Who are God’s people?  For the majority of the last two thousand years Christians have with one voice affirmed that Christians, the church, are God’s people and that membership is open to any and all who would join the church through faith in Christ, baptism and repentance.  ...

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The Covenant of Grace

As far as sheer volume is concerned, the covenant of grace is the dominant theme of Scripture.  From the third chapter of Genesis to the final pages of Revelation, the Bible chronicles for us the outworking of the covenant of grace in history. Simply put, the covenant of grace is God’s ...

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