Tag: Holy Spirit

  • Free Christian E-Book: The Mystery of the Trinity

    This book is a work by New Testament Scholar Vern Poythress who teaches at Westminster Theological Seminary.  It is titled “Mystery and the Trinity” with the subtitle “A Trinitarian Approach to the Attributes of God.” While Poythress official teaching position is New Testament professor I have found him to be skilled in multiple discipline ranging…

  • The Gospel: Defined and Defended

    Background If you ask many people, who espouse Christ and go to church every week, just what is the gospel you will get various responses. Some will say being a “good person” is the gospel. Roman Catholics may say the gospel is that Jesus died for us and is present in a real way in…

  • Mary Deconstructed: Mariology or Mariolatry?

    I’ve seen numerous times on Facebook, Catholics and Orthodox more vigorously and passionately defend their Marian beliefs than they do Christ’s divinity. The emphasis is always on Mary! There are Marian processions with thousands of people carrying a statue of Mary through the streets, there are numerous statues of Mary that people bow to and…

  • Ecumenism: Common Ground or Compromise of Doctrine?

    It’s no secret that the Christian visible church is fractured (the institutional Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox churches), yet in another sense we have unity in the true Church which is the invisible Body of Christ. It’s made up of the regenerate (God’s Elect) in all the various institutional churches and denominations. Can we achieve common…

  • Race Realism: A Discourse on the Current State of Race in America

    Shakespeare was the greatest writer of all time, besides the Bible – which was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It’s sad so many high schools and universities have dropped the study of the venerable bard and his many works. Too white. Too western. Too Christian. This is the tip of the anti-white,…

  • God’s children: Natural Birth or New Birth

    We’ve all heard the popular assertion, “We are all God’s children.”, but is this slogan really a true statement of fact according to Scripture? In this article we shall examine that question and see what Scripture has to say about it. If we carefully study and exegete Scripture relating to this topic, four things stand…

  • A Doxology

    Now praise the FatherAnd the SonWith the Holy SpiritThree in One We give to YouOur highest praiseWe shall worship YouAll our days Christ ransomed usFrom eternal perditionYou cannot be savedBy your own volition We are saved byGrace aloneIt was ChristWho did atone God chose His electBefore the world’s foundationIt was totally by His good pleasureThis…

  • Water Baptism: A Reformed Examination of John 3:5

    When a person is baptized is it the water itself that regenerates? Or is it the washing by the Holy Spirit that regenerates? According to Calvin, and other Reformed commentators, the water in John 3:5 is not referring to water baptism. And it is the washing by the Holy Spirit that regenerates. And that alone.…

  • Reformed vs Catholic: Determining Doctrine

    “The Bible claims to be the sole and sufficient infallible rule of faith for the Christian church. The Scriptures are not in need of any supplement; their authority comes from their nature as God-breathed revelation; their authority is not dependent upon man, church, or council. The Scriptures are self-consistent, self-interpreting, and self-authenticating. The Christian church…