Book Review: The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity by Stephen R. Holmes In Stephen R. Holmes’s The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity, we have a book that is sweet to the taste but bitter to the stomach. Though Holmes’s learned […]
Lord Also of the Sabbath: Mark 2:23-28
The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.” Source: Reformation OPC
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: Part 4
A Sacrament is a symbolic action using water, bread, and wine, by which God signifies, seals and applies to us the blessings of the covenant of grace and by which he consecrates us to his service.” Source: St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: Part 3
And Peter said to them, ‘Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Hold Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the […]
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: Part 2
This is what God does through the Sacraments: he signifies his covenant promises, he seals those promises, and he actually applies to us the promises of the gospel. Today, I want to talk about baptism, which is the Sacrament of covenant union, the initiation rite of the church.” Source: St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: Part 1
How do we think about the Sacraments? How does our understanding of the Bible affect how we think about the nature and function of the Sacraments? How should Reformed churches talk about the Sacraments? Dr. Swain addresses these and other questions in Part 1 of his series, “Signed, Sealed, and Delivered”. Source: St. Paul’s Presbyterian […]
