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Assurance of Pardon

Having confessed our sins is there a way to know that we are forgiven?  The assurance of forgiveness comes from the pronouncement of the minister: “Your sins are forgiven.”  If the confession of sin makes low-church evangelicals uncomfortable, the assurance of pardon makes ...

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The Confession of Sin

An element of traditional worship has curiously dropped out of much Protestant worship.  I am speaking of the confession of sin.  After my conversion I never attended a church service wherein the congregation confessed their sins during worship until coming to New Life.  For ...

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Regulated by Scripture 2

Recently I had an interesting and enlightening experience.  One of our high school students was given the opportunity to receive extra credit for a class if she would attend an Ash Wednesday service.  So I took Trinity along and we joined her family in attendance at a local ...

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Regulated by Scripture

These are not good days for worship in evangelical and mainline churches.  While the Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and high-church Episcopalians/Anglicans have for the most part stuck with their traditions, evangelical and mainline churches have opted for a “newer” and ...

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