Christ Is King! In my first two blogs, I have attempted to point out the dangers which lurk in the waters of the original Westminster and older Presbyterianism. Someone might ask at this point about the fact that Christ is King over all things including the realm of...
What Lies Beneath! | (Part 2 of 4) A Few Observations on Civil Government Enforcing the 1st Table of the Law and the Dangers in the Original Westminster Confession and Its View of Church and State
What Lies Beneath! Most people are not experts on the history of Presbyterianism. This means that they might not realize that the mild and mannerly Presbyterianism with which we are familiar in the USA is not necessarily representative of the views of the original...
What Dangers Lurk! – A Few Observations on Civil Government Enforcing the 1st Table of the Law and the Dangers in the Original Westminster Confession and Its View of Church and State Part 1 of 4
What Dangers Lurk! I found myself last week in a Webinar on the church’s response to the Covid 19 Crisis. In particular, the theme revolved around the idea of civil disobedience with respect to civil orders for churches to cease assembling for the time being as...
Chapter 3 of John Mark’s Remarkable Career Continued—His Interesting and Abortive Travels with Barnabas and Saul
Chapter 3 of John Mark’s Remarkable Career Continued—His Interesting and Abortive Travels with Barnabas and Saul In the last blog we looked at how John Mark began his travels with Barnabas and Paul. In this blog we considered the text which speaks of the sad...
Chapter 3 of John Mark’s Remarkable Career—His Interesting and Abortive Travels with Barnabas and Saul
Chapter 3 of John Mark’s Remarkable Career—His Interesting and Abortive Travels with Barnabas and Saul When I speak of Mark’s “interesting” and “abortive” travels with Barnabas and Saul, I have three texts in mind. In this blog I want to look at them in order of...
Chapter 2 of John Mark’s Remarkable Career—Relation and Position in the Church at Jerusalem (Acts 12:12)
Chapter 2 of John Mark’s Remarkable Career—Relation and Position in the Church at Jerusalem (Acts 12:12) We left John Mark huddled in his home in Jerusalem. We discover him again in the same exact location about twelve years later. Not only is the place the...
The Remarkable Career of John Mark and What It Says Especially To Pastors and Pastoral Students: Pt. 2 – His Probable and Improbable Escapade as a Young Man (Mark 14:51-52)
His Probable and Improbable Escapade as a Young Man (Mark 14:51-52) Look first at Mark 14:51-52: “A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they seized him. But he pulled free of the linen sheet and escaped naked.” The...
The Remarkable Career of John Mark And What it Says Especially to Pastors & Pastoral Students: Pt. 1 – The Bible Tells Stories About People
The Bible Tells Stories About People One of the special things about the Bible is that it tells stories—stories not just about God, but about human beings. This makes it much more interesting actually than the Koran which simply provides saying after saying and is in...
The Private Rebuke
In a previous post the subject of church discipline was considered and 6 introductory observations were given. In this post, step 1 of seeking forgiveness will be considered: The private individual rebuke. You can find the first post in the series here. Matthew 18:15...
Church Discipline: The Way of Forgiveness
The Bible teaches us that holiness is one of the major marks of a true church. The church’s holiness is based off the great command found in Leviticus 19:2, “You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.” And the church’s holiness is the...
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