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Creeds and confessions: A biblical basis
Creeds and confessions have a deep legacy in church history. Across two thousand years, we can track how the church has sought to guard apostolic teaching, particularly in seasons when heresy demanded that believers articulate their convictions with precision and...
Creeds and Confessions: A Historical Background
Toward the end of his life, Paul challenged Timothy with a simple but weighty exhortation: “Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 1:13). Paul was deeply concerned that the body of...
The Trinity and the Christian Life: Why the Truth about God Demands Undivided Devotion
Some years ago, two pastors from a Reformed Baptist Church in St. Charles, Illinois, hosted a podcast titled “Doctrine and Devotion.” The conviction that drove the podcast was that doctrine must always lead to devotion. Belief necessarily affects behaviour. Scriptural...
God the Spirit: Revealer of Wisdom and Resurrector of the Dead
The Holy Spirit is easily the most misunderstood and neglected person of the Trinity. Many mistake the Spirit as little more than an impersonal force. Others relegate him to the realm of sensational or mystical experiences. The Reformed tradition in which I stand...
God the Son: Agent and Mediator of All Things
Previously, in considering how Scripture frames the doctrine of the Trinity, we focused on the Father as the source and goal of all things. First Corinthians 8:6 describes the Father as the one “from whom are all things and for whom we exist.” But Paul does not end...
God the Father: Source and Goal of All Things
We have been thinking about the Trinity—specifically, the shared deity of Father and Son—from the perspective of 1 Corinthians 8:6, where Paul offers a most profound summary of God’s identity and our place in relation to him. The Father, we saw in a previous part, is...