One of my favorite hymns of all time is the classic, “God Moves in a Mysterious Way,” by William Cowper. Many years ago, when I first heard the lyrics…
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April 2020
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The Duties of Civil Magistrates
Lessons from the Westminster Confession of Faithby Brian Cosby April 21, 2020During this unusual season of global pandemic, government officials have shut down businesses, restricted travel, and banned gatherings of various sizes. Because of this, lawsuits have been filed and…
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Don’t Lay an Egg
The Danger of Doctrinal Minimalismby David Gilbert April 10, 2020It’s an oft quoted phrase in the history of the Reformation that Luther hatched the egg Erasmus laid. For while God used the humanistic scholar, Erasmus, to drive a…
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One of the great debates in the nineteenth-century American Presbyterian church centered around Roman Catholic baptism.[1] As large numbers of people were emigrating to the United States from Roman…