O Christ, your Law is just and good,
Our daily meditation.
We look not for our life in it,
Nor for justification.
Obedience to you we find
To be our joyful task.
Your law not grievous to the mind
of those who in you bask.
A poem on Spurgeon’s “Christ, Destroyer of Death” by Luke Schmeltzer
Death is still our hateful foe,
And its damage to our world we lament.
Yet Christ shall put an end to its woe,
When trumpet sounds and sky is rent.
Is Psalm 12:6–7 a Proof Text for Scripture’s Preservation? | Timothy Decker
Is Psalm 12:6–7 a Proof Text for Scripture’s Preservation? A Historical Examination | Timothy Decker When it comes to the prooftexts of our Confession’s statement on the preservation of Scripture at §1.8, we have to admit that there are none offered for the...
A Book Review by Mr. Paul Hess | A Tidy Faith: Systematic Theology from a Reformed Baptist Perspective
“Bayes should be applauded for attempting the monumental task of developing a contemporary work of systematic theology that is distinctly Reformed Baptist…”
Presuppositional Apologetics: The Defense of Natural Revelation’s Declaration of the Existence of God | Sam Waldron
Men cannot hold fast the truth in unrighteousness. Rather, they hold down, repress, or suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Dr. James White uses the illustration of someone actively trying to hold down a beach ball under the water!
Presuppositional Apologetics: The Authentication of Two Kinds of Revelation | Sam Waldron
It is the business of apologetics to present the authentication of natural revelation as the context of our redemptive relationship with God and the authentication of redemptive revelation as the basis of our redemptive knowledge of God.
Of Zeal | John Gill
Zeal is an ardour of mind, a fervent affection for some person or thing; with an indignation against every thing supposed to be pernicious and hurtful to it.
Presuppositional Apologetics: The Development of Presuppositional Apologetics in Cornelius Van Til | Sam Waldron
Cornelius Van Til developed the system of apologetics known as presuppositionalism in conscious interaction with Warfield and Kuyper.
Mortification of Sin in Believers | John Owen
The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.
Analytical Outlines of Particular Baptist Confessions of Faith by Reagan Marsh
Reagan Marsh (Pastor of Reformation Baptist Church of Dalton, GA, and a CBTSeminary ThM student studying under Dr. Tom Nettles) has recently compiled an analytical outline of many historic Baptist Confessions of Faith.