"Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God."
Psalm 42:5 ESV
"It is absolutely necessary that the person who cultivates any branch of knowledge first of all and most of all study to be modest and humble.
This applies especially to the theologian."
- Herman Bavinck
On Sunday, I addressed hell from Matthew 25:46, “Should We Be Embarrassed of Hell?”
We must speak on eternal judgment. It refracts the holiness of God, the horror of sin, and the intensively infinite atonement of the Lord Jesus. https://t.co/Xy7OE2iJF6
Our impassible God who cannot sorrow assumed our nature to Himself in the Son to be “a man of sorrows” (Isa 53:3), our sympathetic high priest (Heb 4:15).
It is the orthodox doctrine of God that protects the mystery and beauty of the gospel.
The historic creeds - Apostles’, Nicene, Athanasian, & Chalcedon - do not have more authority than the Bible.
They have more authority than you.
That’s the point.
If you understand why Jesus would send His disciples away from the groundswell of fame on the beach into the swells of the storm on the sea, you will understand the Christian life (see Matt 14:22-33).
Join us on Sept 19-20th, for our 11th annual Sacramento Gospel Conference! This year, we consider “Confessing the Triune God: The Nicene Creed” with James Dolezal of IRBS and Fred Sanders.
Drs. Dolezal and Sanders will speak in 6 sessions and a Q&A.
"Wisdom is justified by her deeds" (Matthew 11:19)
"... He caused the true Wisdom himself to take flesh, to become man, and to suffer death on the cross so that all who believed in Him might be saved by faith."
- Athanasius
“Wisdom is justified by her deeds” (Matt 11:19).
“… which Jesus certainly said about himself. For Jesus is Wisdom itself not because of His acts of power but by His very nature.”
- Hilary of Poitiers
Save the date on Sept 19-20th, for our 10th annual Sacramento Gospel Conference on “Confessing the Triune God: The Nicene Creed” with James Dolezal of @IRBS_1689 and @FredFredSanders.
“My love is ofttimes low,
My joy still ebbs and flows,
But peace with Him remains the same,
No change my Savior knows.
I change, He changes not;
The Christ can never die;
His love, not mine, the resting-place,
His truth, not mine, the tie.”
- Horatius Bonar
The slogan, “Deeds, not creeds,” ignores the question, which deeds?
Christian deeds are defined by the Christian creed: “And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” (Col 3:17).