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Christian Living
Developing Good Communication Skills
When you marry, you enter a covenant of companionship. Malachi 2:14 says, “The wife of thy youth” is “thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.” But healthy, God-honoring companionship cannot exist without good communication. As husband and wife, you must seek by God’s grace to develop good ways of...
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Paul’s Great, Christ-centered Confession of Faith
(1) The special characteristics of this confession; (2) The Christ-centered articles of this Confession; (3) The practical imperatives of this confession...
Christian Living
Assurance Well-Cultivated Produces Fruits
Westminster 18.3 stresses that assurance produces God-glorifying, delightful fruit, so that the believer’s “heart may be enlarged in peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, in love and thankfulness to God, and in strength and cheerfulness in the duties of obedience, the proper fruits of this assurance; so far is...
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Jesus as Our Mediator
Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:20–2:5 1. What He must be a. Truly human b. Practical applications c. Truly God d. Practical applications 2. Who He is a. Our Lord Jesus Christ b. Our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption 3. How we know Him a. From the holy gospel b. Practical...
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The Great Peacemaker
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Benefits Of Ecclesiology: Avoiding Proud Individualism and Authoritarianism
Ecclesiology reminds us that we need other believers. It opposes the mindset of radical individualism, independence, and autonomy. Yet it also opposes the total or absolute subordination of individuals to the authority of a leader. For example, the teaching that the church is Christ’s body presses upon us the reality...
Church History
Apostolic Foundations
The first century of church history divides roughly into three periods. In the first, our Lord Jesus, through His ministry, began to fulfill the great promise of Matthew 16:18, “I will build my church.” Jesus came into the world to die as the Savior of His people and to build...
Christian Living
Receiving the Preached Word
King James II of England, when battling the Puritans, sent a proclamation to all the ministers in the Church of England, demanding that it be read to every congregation on Sunday. Knowing that the bill opposed New Testament Christianity as well as the Puritan style of preaching, the Puritans detested...
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Benefits Of Ecclesiology: Employing God’s Method of Evangelism
By a chain of rhetorical questions, Paul leads us to the conclusion that the church’s ministry is crucial for the conversion of sinners: “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And...
