3: WSC – Creation

 
Shorter Catechism, week 4
 
Q. 9. What is the work of creation?
A. The work of creation is, God’s making all things of nothing, by the word of his power,[24] in the space of six days, and all very good.[25]
 
Q. 10. How did God create man?
A. God created man male and female, after his own image,[26] in [...]

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Something to Think About: Where does your time go?

 
A headline in this past Sunday’s edition of the Lancaster Sunday News reached out and grabbed my attention. It read, Time for God? Over-scheduled believers squeeze in religion with books, emails, podcasts. In the article, the reporter answers the question as to how busy believers find time for God in their hectic schedules. What struck [...]

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Doctrine of the Day:Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the Holy Spirit

 
Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the Holy Spirit
Mark Driscoll
 
Known affectionately as “the Doctor” because of his medical career prior to preaching, Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981) is considered by many to be the preeminent British preacher of the twentieth century. He began working at the famed Westminster Chapel in London the day after World War II broke out. That [...]

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Theological Word of the Day: dualism

 
Dualism
 
[doo‘-uh-liz’-um]
(Latin duo, “two”)
Early philosophical system which sees the universe in terms of two antithetical forces which are continually at odds. These two forces are responsible for the origin of the world. Often the dualist worldview produced a metaphysical separation between the spiritual and physical, with the spiritual being good and physical being evil. Christianity has [...]

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Persecuted Church:UK – NOT CHILD FRIENDLY

THIS IS NOT CHILD FRIENDLY
 
A British imam was raping his daughter for ten years, and when she fled her family to avoid being sent to Pakistan for a forced marriage and became a Christian, he led a gang through the streets trying to kill her:
 
We are all too familiar with the persecution of Christians in countries [...]

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Around the Blogosphere: Top 6 Posts of the Heidelblog

 
1. Who or What Defines Reformed?
2. Calvinism Old and New
3. For Those Just Tuning In: What is the Federal Vision?
4. A Word to Students in the Midst of Controversy
5. Thinking About the Confederation of Reformed Evangelicals?
6. Covenant Theology is Not Replacement Theology

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Hymn of the Day: He Hideth My Soul

 
He Hideth My Soul
Fanny J. Crosby, 1820–1915
The blind American poet, Fanny Jane Crosby, did not begin writing gospel texts until she was in her mid-forties. But from then on, inspiring words seemed to flow constantly from her heart, and she became “the happiest creature in all the land.” Friends stopped in frequently to see her [...]

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Devotional: Question Everything?

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. (2 Peter 3:9, ESV)
 
“Question everything” seems to be the keystone of the modern manifesto. You see the attitude (if not the actual phraseology) all around [...]

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Thought of the Day: Sermon on the Mount

 

“[T]he Sermon on the Mount is a description of character and not a code of ethics or of morals. It is not to be regarded as a law- a kind of new ‘Ten Commandments’ or set of rules and regulations which are to be carried out by us-but rather as a description of what we [...]

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Prayer of the Day: Praise for Evangelism

 
Dear Father, author of all true wisdom,Thank you that you do not send your emissaries out as mere recruiters. They are not just to baptize but to preach the Good News about Jesus, that he doesn’t just want us to “join his club” but he wants us to be like him, yes, to be him, [...]

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