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Entries Tagged ‘The Gospel’

Popular Myth#8: A person is saved by ‘asking Jesus into their heart’

I’ve never been comfortable with the common evangelistic use of ’sinners prayers’. Even before I affirmed, in a conscious way, ‘the doctrines of grace’, I had my concerns about this method of Christian Initiation.  
It seemed to me that many where zealous to get unsaved people to simply ‘ask Jesus into their life’ and if [...]

John MacArthur Exposes the Inadequate Gospel of Rick Warren


The Centrality of the Cross: Sermon Notes

On Sunday I preached at Renfrew Baptist Church. Here are the Sermon notes (because I just know your all desperate to read them! lol).
The The Centrality of the Cross
  
Philippians 3:18-19
 
 18For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19Their [...]

Young people and the gospel: Why a return to reformed theology is so essentially urgent

This article is found at the puritanboard
Why is Confessional, Reformed Theology Important?
The National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) has published its first major findings in Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, by Oxford University Press.
The book Soul Searching accurately describes the state of American Christianity today by describing the beliefs [...]

Mission, mission, mission!!!

Over the last few days I have been really stirred regarding mission, in particular, local mission.
I often spend a lot of time on this blog exploring theological issues, particuarly in the areas of soteriology and ecclessiology. In otherwords what we believe about Salvation and what we believe about the church. However, these themes only have [...]


    "Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it. To me, it is one of the sweetest and most blessed truths in the whole of revelation, and those who are afraid of it are so because they do not understand it. If they could but know that the Lord had chosen them, it would make their hearts dance for joy."
    C.H. Spurgeon