Doctrine! Theology! These are not words calculated to inspire interest or rapt attention among modern Americans or even American Christians. If we did the word-association game, the associations of these words would probably be negative. Once...
Growth in Grace 5 — Moral Excellence Must Be Added to Faith
Contrary to popular opinion, God does not save people simply to keep them from going to hell. Of course, our compassionate God does desire to keep people from going to hell, but God’s ultimate purpose involves the Christian’s growth in grace. This is because God’s...
Growth in Grace 4 — Effort Is Necessary! Practical Conclusions
In 2 Peter 1:5 Peter quadruplely emphasizes that effort is necessary in the Christian life. He says: “… applying … all … diligence … supply …” Now I take up some of the practical conclusions which follow from this emphasis which runs quite counter to a lot of...
Growth in Grace 3 — Effort Is Necessary!
It is important to realize that there are many ways teach the Scriptures expositorily. One can take long passages at a time, or one can take very short passages and bring the expository microscope to bear on a single word as I did in last two blog posts. ...
Growth in Grace 2 — Why Faith Is Foundational
2 Peter 1:5-7 is the Bible’s Most Systematic and Detailed Exhortation to Growth in Grace. And it begins its list of eight graces with faith! Why is faith first in the matter of growth in grace? Why must faith be first? The answer is to be found in verses 1-4. ...
Growth in Grace 1 — Faith Is Foundational
In the past few years progressive sanctification or, in other words, growth in grace has been back in the headlines because of the controversy that blew up in the movement that is generally known as the New Calvinism. Generally speaking, this controversy had to...
Dr. Sam Waldron Assesses Exclusive Psalmody
First, an apology. Unfortunately, in the midst of our name change from the Midwest Center for Theological Studies to Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary, we have run into a number of issues with our blog. While most of these problems have been resolved, I want to...
My Fifth Major Argument Against Exclusive Psalmody
My treatment of exclusive psalmody would be incomplete if it did not deal with the key texts of Ephesians 5:19-20, Colossians 3:16-17, and their mention “psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.” Fifth, the best interpretation of Ephesians 5:19-20 and...
My Fourth Major Argument Against Exclusive Psalmody
Fourth, exclusive psalmody is out of accord with the requirements God makes with regard to other parts of worship. We are certainly commanded to preach scriptural sermons and pray scriptural prayers, but this does not limit us to only reading sermons found in...
My Third Major Argument Against Exclusive Psalmody
With this post I come to a third argument against exclusive psalmody which is closely related to my second. Having seen from John 4:24 that we are required to worship God in the light of the gospel and not in the shadows of the law, that third argument is this:...
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