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TULIP - Unconditional Election

As we meditate upon the implications of Total Depravity, we inevitably come to the place where we throw up our hands and with the disciples say, “Then who can be saved?”  (Lk. 18:26).  When that question is raised, you know someone understands this doctrine.  The answer ...

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TULIP - Total Depravity

Years ago Loraine Boettner suggested that the five points of Calvinism are “not isolated and independent doctrines but are so inter-related that they form a simple, harmonious, self-consistent system.”  Therefore, “Prove any one of them false and the whole system must be ...

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TULIP part 1

After about eight months we finished our WWDWWD concerning our worship practice.  For more information or to review any of the articles please visit our website and specifically my blog to the archived articles.  Since these articles have been received so well I will continue to write on ...

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The Benediction

All of our worship services end the same way: The minister lifts his hands and pronounces a benediction upon the people.  Benediction is simply a word that means, “blessing.”  While the benediction may seem foreign and uncomfortably sacerdotal to those from low church ...

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Reformation Service

This week we raise and hopefully answer the question: Why do we pause to remember the protestant reformation each year?  Let me suggest three reasons why.  First, we do so to emphasize our catholicity.  To answer the question like that is somewhat ironic because historically the ...

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