Judging our brothers

Is the church called to judge it’s people? Think Matt 18; How would the church be a church if it didn’t practice judgement? It would cease being a church. One of the three marks that make a church a church is discipline; discipline is a form of judgement....

On Halloween

  The bottom line is that since we have Reformation day on October 31st, there is absolutely no logical reason to celebrate Halloween. We should all be having major blowouts on October 31st. We celebrate the 4th of July like there’s no tomorrow for our...

Robert S. Rayburn on Covenant Succession

” Our doctrine has not been well taught in seminaries, in pulpits, or in books, whether written for ministers or laymen. Consequently, many ministers and congregations have only a vague notion of the theological substructure of the practice of paedobaptism, of...

Horace Bushnell on ‘Christian Nurture’

“this is the Lords chosen way to perpetuate and extend His church. It is the growth from within, like the mustard seed…..The regular normal mode of increase is through the multiplication of Christian families, the blessings descending from generation to...