Thomas Manton on Perseverance

By Thomas Manton “First, What is the wisdom of God in the way of salvation prescribed by the gospel? The sum of the gospel is this: that all those who, by true repentance and faith, do forsake the flesh, the world, and the devil, and give themselves up to God...

How Should We Worship God?

How Should We Worship God? By David Silversides There was a time when the question of how we should worship God was viewed as a matter of importance to professing Christians. It still is, though for a different reason. Whereas our forefathers struggled with what was...

Helpful Bible Commentaries

Dr. Keith Mathison’s RecommendationsMatthew Poole The Expositors Bible Commentary Shaw’s Commentary on the Westminster Confession Westminster Shorter catechism Project The Presbyterian Standards by F. Beattie Calvin’s CommentaryCommentary on the...

Hymns? You might want to rethink that one.

If you hold to the biblical idea that prayer, sacraments and the word are the means of grace and you sing hymns written by women, you are actually sitting under the teaching of a women and a direct break in the Regulative Principle of Worship. Think about...

Law vs Gospel

I truly do not understand all the hoopla lately in regard to law vs gospel; I mean, I learned that stuff back when I was a new believer…Justification by faith alone does not mean that that justification, though efficacious, is never alone from the fruits of that...

Wisdom from James Durham

“…the Antinomians … make all sanctification to be justification … the Papists make all justification to be sanctification; therefore we would learn to distinguish these two, yet not so as to separate them.” – James Durham