The Spirit and the Church
There are many things attributed to the Holy Spirit, some true things and some false things. People will talk about being moved by the Holy Spirit or slain in the Spirit or worshipping in the Spirit. The trouble with these things is that they are either very subjective or entirely unbiblical. But the Apostle’s Creed […]
The Risen King
So far in our little series on the Apostle’s Creed, we’ve confessed that we believe in God the Father, Almighty who made heaven and earth. We’ve confessed that Jesus stepped into history, that he is God Incarnate, fully divine and fully human, and that he truly died. But our great confession does not end with a Christ who […]
Christ stepped into history
The middle section of the Apostle’s Creed is dedicated to Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In a previous post, we considered the uniqueness of Jesus. That there is no one like him. He isn’t one among many, he doesn’t exist on a spectrum of human/divine beings. He is the only One. And this time, we continue […]
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The uniqueness of the Son
This week, we’re continuing our way through the Apostles’ Creed and move from confessing God the Father to God the Son. Words get misused all the time. People will talk about literally doing things when they mean metaphorically. But no word gets misused quite like unique. It’s a word that’s treated like a spectrum, where […]
I Believe
On Sunday, we recited the Apostle’s Creed together. Inspired by this, it seems good for us to take a few weeks to be reminded of what we believe so that we know how to discern what is false when we come across it. To be a Christian is to believe that God is real, mighty, […]
This week’s notices
I’ve mentioned before about the need for our church to be making disciples. This is the charge that we have been given by the Lord Jesus and it is what everything we do as a church revolves around. We are being discipled (or more properly, disciplined) all of the time in the church. When we […]
That you may live long in the land
One of the things that we are sort of used to thinking about is God as Holy Trinity. We rightly, boldly, and humbly confess that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The doctrine of the Trinity is what distinguishes Christians from heretical churches like the Latter Day Saints, JWs, and Islam, to name a […]
How to see change
Yesterday, I spoke of how the life of Jacob speaks of the gospel. He was given God’s promise for the sake of his fathers before him. And alongside receiving that promise, he regularly told people of the God who had been with him all his life. For us, this should be incredibly encouraging. Because the […]
Discipleship Explored
Before he ascended, Jesus offered these words to the apostles: This is often called the Great Commission and what we see throughout the New Testament is that the apostles work really hard to see that this is fulfilled. They are so intent on doing as the Lord Jesus instructed them that they are willing to […]