Baptistic Congregationalist. Credal, Sacramental, Covenantal. Student of Puritans. Striving to be cheerful & charitable. Member of Grace Life Church, Ankeny
Joined March 2011
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Just a reminder - my quoting of any theologian is not necessarily a personal endorsement of or agreement with that quote. I post things I find interesting or of some significance
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If you have no care of your tounge, all your religion is vain.
“If any among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tounge, this man’s religion is vain.” —James 1:23
—Thomas Watson, A Plea for the Godly, Pg. 212
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In line with this, Tertullian argued that Adam's sleep prefigured Christ's death, and that Eve's formation from Adam's side anticipated the formation of the Church (the true mother of the living) from Christ's wounded side. (A Treatise on the Soul, Ch 43)
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God "built" (בָּנָה) Eve with the rib of Adam.
So, he also builds the temple of Jesus' body.
Out of this Last Adam, he builds the temple of Ezekiel, of the church, and of the new Jerusalem.
"What is the house that *you* will build for *me*?"
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The Calvinist is the man who has seen God, and is filled on the one hand with a sense of his own unworthiness…and much more as a sinner, and on the other with adoring wonder that nevertheless this God is a God who receives sinners.
—B.B. Warfield
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Central to the Lord's Supper in 1 Cor. 10 are three words, each used twice, translated as “communion” or “participation” which refer to receiving only the ritual (Christian or pagan) but the spiritual reality that it points to. Paul never says our communion is merely around or based on the blood or body of Christ. Rather it is communion with the body and blood itself. In other words, when we partake, we receive Christ himself in some sense.
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Seeing ourselves as primarily Baptist rather than Reformed won’t stop outflow but rather enhance it.
Most don’t become 1689 to be more Baptist. It’s to be more Reformed. This is true of both baptistic and P&R inflow.
It’s that we’re the pinnacle of the Reformed faith.
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Drove all the way to my local polling place and there was literally nowhere on my ballot to vote against a 24 team College Football Playoff and a 76 team NCAA Basketball Tournament. Had to write it all in
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The White House is posting salvation by God's grace in Jesus Christ. Massive W.
whitehouse.gov/briefings-sta…
I asked google “how do you help someone see the beauty of reformed liturgy when theyre used to attractional megachurch environments?” It actually gave me a pretty incredible answer, screenshotted below
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We don’t come to church primarily to work, we come primarily to have our faith strengthens by receiving Christ through the ordinary means of grace of Word and sacrament.