THE BINDING OF THE COVENANT: AN EXEGESIS OF HEBREWS 6.1-8

INTRODUCTION      Often ignored in this modern era of Christianity is the covenantal aspect to the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find academic resources which describe the Biblical narratives in covenantal form at this time in redemptive history. Yet, this neglect of modern scholarship does…

Sunday School: The Trinity, Week 6

In Sunday School, we continued our study on the Triunity of God, with a specific focus on the nature of God’s Being and person-hood. We also continued our study on the absolute deity of Christ, along with a section explaining the difference between monotheism, henotheism and polytheism. Click the link below for the audio. CLICK…

SERMON: “OUR HOPE FOR THE WORLD IS IN CHRIST”

Blessings to all. The following sermon, posted from last Lord’s Day, is from the text of Daniel 7 and speaks to the issue of Jesus’ kingdom now reign. If you have a view of “end-times” that believes that Jesus will not receive His kingdom until the 1000 year millennial period, please listen to this sermon,…

SUNDAY SCHOOL: PREDESTINATION AND SOME CREATION ISSUES

Well, last Sunday we finally made it through chapter 3 of the Westminster Confession on predestination. This allowed us to move on to chapter 4 to touch on some creation issues. The three models that I spoke about included the Young Earth Creation perspective of Genesis 1, the Old Earth view and finally, the ANE…

Sermon: “God’s Grace Through Baptism”

So often in our culture, the sacrament of baptism is treated as an empty ceremony that functions as the believers profession of faith to the world that he or she is now a follower of Christ. Because of this, the meaning and richness of baptism has been greatly reduced to a subjective response by the…

Sermon and Sunday School on Covenant Theology (02/09/14)

Here is the Sunday School lesson and sermon from today. First, we continued our study of the Westminster Confession of Faith, reviewing chapter 2 which deals with the nature of God and the Trinity. During today’s sermon, I spoke on the issue of Covenant Theology and why we in the Reformed Church adhere to this…