One Lord one faith one baptism. Eph. 4.5.
Issue: Issue 8
CHEERFULNESS There is no conflict between this subject and the previous one in this series on the Christian character – sobriety.* The same Christian who is exhorted to be sober and grave is also to be cheerful. It is not that the cheerful Christian is light and superficial: rather that the professing believer who fails …
A PRAYER Lord, give me grace to see my need of grace. Give me grace to ask for grace. Give grace to use thy grace. Give me grace to lay all the glory of grace at Thy feet, for Jesus Christ’s sake.
LIMITED ATONEMENT by Dr. Loraine Boettner (1901-1990) The question which we are to discuss under the subject of “Limited Atonement” is, Did Christ offer up Himself a sacrifice for the whole human race, for every individual without distinction or exception; or did His death have special reference to the elect? In other words, was the …
CHRISTMAS AND THE CHRISTIAN Rev. Ronald Van Overloop The commemoration of the incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ is important to Christians. The unbelieving world also recognizes this event; but, just as it is with everything the ungodly does, he corrupts it, commemorating it only on one day of the year and then doing so …
JONATHAN EDWARDS AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD From my childhood up, my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God’s sovereignty in choosing whom He would to eternal life; and rejecting whom He pleased; leaving them eternally to perish, and be everlastingly tormented in hell. It used to appear like a horrible …
GOD’S ATTRIBUTES Scripture, church history, and gracious experience make one thing plain: The closer a sinner is to God and the more vividly the church is in the throes of authentic revival, the more consciousness there will be of God’s attributes. So astounding is the number, that it’s hard to calculate how many thousands of …
REJECTED OF MEN He was rejected. He could find no supporters for His cause. No one took His side. Men forsook Him. They left Him alone. They condemned His cause, and left Him alone. The prophet says that He was rejected of men. The emphasis of this word probably falls on men that were outstanding …
WHY IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY by the late C. D. Alexander We mean, why the emphasis on the Reformed doctrines as the only way to the reviving of the evangelical cause? Is it not sufficient to preach the plain and “simple” gospel without this insistence upon such themes as Divine Sovereignty, Predestination, the …