The Most Dangerous Prayer a Christian Can Pray
by Darrell Bernard HarrisonPrayer is essential to the Christian life.It is essential to the Christian life because prayer was essential to the life of Jesus (Matthew 6:1-15, 14:23; Luke 5:16, 22:39-41;...
View ArticleDoes God Only Hear and Answer our Prayers Based Upon our Victory Over Sin?
Answer: No. definitely not. He answers our prayers THAT WE MAY have victory over sin. It is by the grace of God in Jesus Christ that we overcome sin. We come to Jesus empty handed. We have nothing to...
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To Will Ill, of a Corrupt Nature; to Will Well, of Grace
by John Calvin"Because of the bondage of sin by which the will is held bound, it cannot move toward good, much less apply itself thereto; for a movement of this sort is the beginning of conversion to...
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Prayer and Legalism
"Since prayer is an aspect of our sanctification, our development or growth in godliness, it too must be understood as the fruit of what Christ has done for us. This is often the missing dimension in...
View ArticlePredestination destroys legalism
Predestination destroys legalism. If salvation is by Christ ALONE, it leaves no room for boasting or trusting in ourselves, even a little. It strips us bare and forces us to abandon all hope in our own...
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Thou Shalt Have No Other gods Before Me
For the worship of God alone (against the invocation of saints and the worship of creatures), the orthodox saints is rejected contend: First, with express command of God by which by Exod. 20:3 and he...
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A Humble Soul Overlooks His Own Righteousness
by Thomas BrooksA second property of an humble soul is this, He overlooks his own righteousness, and lives upon the righteousness of another, to wit, the Lord Jesus. So the apostle, (Philip. 3:8–10),...
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The Use of Means in Regeneration
One of the great benefits of the Internet is that nothing stays hidden within a single community very long. When false statements are made and bandied about, the liklihood of them being exposed for...
View ArticleWhat podcasts are you listening to this week?
I have been listening to the following podcasts over the last few days.TheocastThe Covenant of Works: How this one theological concept is essential to understanding the Bible, the Gospel, the life of...
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Would Christ have had to die for the social justice gospel to be true?
Would Christ have had to die for the social justice gospel to be true?If the answer is no ... if social justice has, de facto, become the gospel itself, and our goal is simply to "redeem" the culture"...
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How to Respond to: "Being Gay is Not a Sin so Stop Using God to Justify...
The following post is a response to this comment found on social media:"Being GAY is not a CRIME. And it is not a SIN.: Stop using God to justify your prejudice. Religion is about Loving one another,...
View ArticleThe Biblical Importance of Catechizing
“If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed…Train yourself for...
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The Responsibility of the Church in the New Age
by J. Gresham MachenThe following is a short excerpt from Machen’s essay, “The Responsibility of the Church in Our New Age.” This remarkably relevant work originally appeared in Annals of the American...
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Why Do We Pray for the Lost?
As Phil Johnson once posted,I often ask Arminians, 'Why do you even pray for the lost? Your theology tells you God has already done everything He could possibly do to save them and now its all up to...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts on Repentance
Repentance is a gift from God. We mustn’t assume that repentance has its origin within us. God gives repentance as a gift of grace through the work of the Spirit in His people and as such ought to be...
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Sanctification: Monergistic or Synergistic?
"so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it...
View ArticleThe Doctrines of Grace (Lecture Series)
Here is the now completed series of B.R.I.D.G.E. Ministries (Laredo, Texas) podcasts covering the doctrines of grace (the so called TULIP acrostic):Teachers include Dr. John Frame, Pastor Jeff Durbin,...
View ArticlePietistic Vs. Biblical Sanctification
How many of us try to clean ourselves up before approaching the Lord's Table, as if there were some degree or level of purity that we could reach that would make us acceptable to God? The command to...
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The Entire Works of the Rev Charles Simeon M.A. with Copious Indexes in 21...
Thomas Hartwell Horne (editor)London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844-45. Reproduced from the 6th & 7th edns. These books are in the Public DomainTable of ContentsVolume 1: Genesis to Leviticus pdf Volume 2:...
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