In early November, I had the opportunity to attend the Southern California Reformed Baptist Pastors’ Conference (SCRBPC) at the Trinity Reformed Baptist Church in La Mirada beside Nathan Neels, Carla Neels, Phil Hutchings, and Justin Hutchings. While the conference was originally a small-scale pastor’s conference, it has evolved into the premiere Reformed Baptist event in…
Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded, in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you. – Titus 2:6–8 In the pastoral epistles…
In our Saturday morning theology class, we have completed our studies in The Mystery of Christ, His Covenant, and His Kingdom by Dr. Samuel D. Renihan within our theology class held every second Saturday morning at 6:30. Dr. Renihan begins chapter 14 of his book with the following statement about the thematic connection between Genesis…
When we consider distinctive Christian doctrines like the Trinity and justification by faith alone, the empty tomb is a similarly central truth that impacts both doctrine and practice. As we ponder these things during corporate worship and private devotions, we should marvel at the miracle of the resurrection. The following article will offer several reasons…
Having treated, in the preceding Book, of the exhibition of the covenant of grace, both under the Old and New Testament dispensations, and of the law and gospel, as held forth in both; and of the latter only in a general way; I shall now proceed to consider, the particular, special, and important doctrines of…
Excerpted from A Body of Doctrinal Divinity – John Gill There was Gospel in the former dispensation, though called the legal dispensation; it was preached to Adam, to Abraham, and by Isaiah, and other prophets, as has been observed. Yet there is a clearer revelation and ministration of it under the present dispensation; as the…
We rejoice to report the recent installation of Pastor Ryan Maljaars into full-time pastoral ministry. On May 28, 2022, Pastor Butler and Pastor Kirkpatrick completed a theological examination of Pastor Maljaars. Over the course of two hours, Pastor Maljaars demonstrated his familiarity with major biblical themes, the outlines of various sections of scripture, and a…
Charles H. Spurgeon – Excerpt from a sermon preached December 11, 1859 THE true minister of Christ feels impelled to preach the whole truth, because it and it alone can meet the wants of man. What evils has this world seen through a distorted, mangled, man-moulded gospel. What mischiefs have been done to the souls…
In confessionally Reformed discourse regarding the doctrine of salvation (soteriology), great pains are taken to harmonize and synthesize the biblical texts that speak to the various aspects of the gospel. As a result, systematic theology texts tend to invest a lot of effort into explaining the logical order of those aspects through the “order of…
In Genesis 1:26–31, the creation account tells us that mankind was created in God’s image. As Professor Mark Ross explains, this means that mankind exclusively possesses what theologians call the imago Dei whereby man is a “personal being” in the “likeness [of] God” with a unique “measure of sovereignty over all the earth, with dominion…