It has become increasingly common for many pastors in Reformed churches to speak of the importance of an “ordinary means of grace” ministry. Many ministers find it deeply reassuring…
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ChurchConfessionalLeadershipMinistry
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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ChurchConfessionalReformationTheology
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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ChurchConfessionalTheology
Striking at the Vitals of Religion
The Courage to Discipline Theological Errorby Nick Willborn February 25, 2020One of the marks of a genuine church of Jesus Christ has, for centuries, been the proper biblical discipline of those who sin and live in that sin in…
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ChurchConfessionalLeadership
Church Discipline as a “Mark” of the Church
by Adam Parker February 9, 2020When you think of church discipline, what comes to mind? Those with more colorful imaginations may think of the Spanish Inquisition. Others may think of a pastor with a…
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ConfessionalWorship
Music as Idolatry
Regulating Worship for Weight and Majestyby Douglas Bond November 8, 2019Everyone has a regulative principle of worship. Everyone regulates what they do in worship either by the past, the pragmatic, by personal preference, or by the unprohibited. Sola Scriptura,…
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ConfessionalSanctificationTheology
The Westminster Statement on Biblical Sexuality
by Jeff Windt July 12, 2019This article originally appeared at Reformation21.org on July 8, 2019. It appears here with permission. Ray Ortlund, one of the original signers of the Nashville Statement, in his book Marriage…
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ConfessionalLeadershipMinistry
Cultural Magisterium or Biblical Magisterium?
Time to Stand - Where Do I Stand? - Here I Stand!by Harry Reeder July 5, 2019On a cold October 31 morning in the year of our Lord 1517, a tempestuous professor of theology from the Augustinian University of Wittenberg seeking to secure a theological…
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ConfessionalMinistryWorship
Plain Preaching that is Full of Power
A Series on The Westminster Larger Catechism Q&A 154-160by John Rakshith Prabhakar October 30, 2018Editor’s Note: This is part 8 in a 10 part series on Westminster Larger Catechism Question and Answer 154-160. I was raised in a church tradition where sermons were…
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The Revoice Conference is history. When first announced with its advertised purpose statement, sponsors, plenary sessions and speakers, my Session requested I pastorally address it for them and our…