Jim Orrick is a professor at Boyce College in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as the author of A Year with George Herbert: A Guide to Fifty-Two of His Best Loved Poems. Why is Mere Calvinism an important work? Mere Calvinism is the most helpful and accessible book on the Doctrines of Grace. Everyone can read this …
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15 Quotes from Reformed Preaching by Joel Beeke
1. The Truth of Christ must be brought home to the heart by the Holy Spirit in order to produce love (pg. 23). 2. Faith opens a window to see into heaven, but experiential knowledge brings a foretaste of heaven into the soul (pg. 48). 3. Reformed preaching is declaring biblical truth to promote biblical …
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Offices of Christ
By Evan Knies A few Sunday nights ago, we walked through this study with our students. These notes are adapted from Wayne Grudem's Systematic. There were three major offices among the people of Israel in the Old Testament: the prophet (Nathan, 2 Sam. 7:2), priest (Abiathar, 1 Sam. 30:7), and king (David, 2 Sam. 5:3). In …
New Year Mercies
By Evan Knies The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. - Lamentations 3:22-23 This year has been tough to say the least. My family has had some trials. My wife's family has had some trials. At the end …
Building Faith & Counting Costs: The Cost of Discipleship in a Society that Takes Faith for Granted
By David Brown For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? (Luke 14:28) In his excellent commentary on Luke’s Gospel New Testament scholar David E. Garland wrote: “ Many who come to …
The King’s Table 