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Creed or Chaos?
Vol. 26, No. 3 • May/Jun 2017
I grew up in a branch of evangelicalism that centered on the teachings of one particular pastor who helped start a fellowship of churches, now numbering more than twelve hundred around the world. As the father of these churches, this pastor was highly respected. In fact, to end most theological arguments in our churches, we […]
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Letter from the Editor
I grew up in a branch of evangelicalism that centered on the teachings of one particular pastor who helped start a fellowship of churches, now numbering more than twelve hundred around the world. As the father of these churches, this pastor was highly respected. In fact, to end most theological arguments in our churches, we […]
With This Faith
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” —The Declaration of Independence Despite the nobility of the sentiment, it is a tragic and uncomfortable fact that the history […]
Seek the Good of the City
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that […]
Creed or Chaos?
If Christian dogma is irrelevant to life, to what, in Heaven’s name, is it relevant?—since religious dogma is in fact nothing but a statement of doctrines concerning the nature of life and the universe. If Christian ministers really believe it is only an intellectual game for theologians and has no bearing upon human life, it […]
Creeds and Confessions
Tradition is the fruit of the Spirit’s teaching activity from the ages as God’s people have sought understanding of Scripture. It is not infallible, but neither is it negligible, and we impoverish ourselves if we disregard it. — J. I. Packer1 Obviously, Christianity did not begin when it was born, nor did our generation invent […]
We Confess, Unless…
When people hear reformational Christians claim to be confessional, they wonder what that means exactly: “Do you go to confession?” This is not as mistaken a question as we might think—the words for “confessing” faith and “confessing” sins have been the same for centuries. At the time of the Reformation, debates about the nature of […]
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“Moreover, they unjustly set the ancient fathers against us (I mean the ancient writers of a better age of the church) as if in them they had supporters of their own impiety. If the contest were to be determined by patristic authority, the tide of victory — to put it very modestly — would turn […]
Did Constantine Change the Day of Worship?
Did Constantine change the church’s day of worship from Saturday to Sunday? Pastor Adriel Sanchez addresses this theory that has long been stated online, demonstrating that the Christian practice has been to gather for worship on Sunday, the Lord’s Day, since the first century.
