Come to the Pactum Conference to learn amazing realities, build lasting, like-minded relationships, and to meet international missionaries to partner with.
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Believing, repenting...are the product of the new nature; & can never be produced by the old corrupt nature...The heart is shut against Christ: man cannot open it, only God can do it by his grace.
- Thomas Boston
“A certain class maintain that the law and the gospel are mixed, and that partly by observance of the law, and partly by God's grace, men are saved.
These men understand not the truth, and are false teachers.”
- C.H. Spurgeon
The Pactum Conference aims to be robustly biblical, decisively covenantal, and warmly confessional. Oh, and we are decidedly pro-local church and pro-local-church pastor.
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Christ is often obscured. Not necessarily denied. Not necessarily rejected. Often, he is affirmed, named, preached, and praised. But in many churches and Christian spaces, the finished work of Christ is functionally moved to the background, while the sinner's performance, sincerity, discipline, improvement, and inward experience are moved to the foreground.
The result is confusion. The law and the gospel are collapsed. What God commands and what God gives are blurred together. Sinners are told that Jesus saves, but then are subtly taught to look within themselves for the confidence, assurance, and peace that can only be found outside of themselves in Christ.
This is not a fringe problem. It is the air many people have breathed for generations. Revivalism, pietism, legalism, and the subjectification of religion have trained many people to look in when the gospel calls them to look out — away from self and unto Christ.
The answer is not vague encouragement. It is not more spiritual intensity. It is not new disciplines. The answer is the clear proclamation of the person, work, and heart of Christ.
Jesus is enough. His obedience is enough. His death is enough. His resurrection is enough. His righteousness is enough. His compassion toward sinners is real. The gospel is not merely the way into the Christian life. It is the foundation, comfort, and hope of the whole thing.
It's been one year since Voddie Baucham, Jr. left the land of the dying and entered the land of the living.
We greatly miss our brother. He was uniquely gifted by our Lord as a husband, father, grandfather, pastor, and educator. There is no replacing him. Like King David, our dear brother Voddie, "after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, fell asleep" (Acts 13:36). Though he has been taken from us, the Lord whose purpose he served so fervently and effectively, remains enthroned over all creation. We will honor Voddie's memory best as we seek to follow his example as he followed Christ—to spend our lives and to be spent making the glorious gospel of our Sovereign known throughout the world.
"Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come;
'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home."
—John Newton, "Amazing Grace"
Why Tethered?
Through podcasts, written resources, and gatherings, we aim to help people see Christ in all of Scripture, rest in his finished work, and understand the freeness of the gospel.
We want people to take comfort in his compassionate heart toward sinners and sufferers — and to call them away from themselves and unto Christ, where confidence, assurance, peace, and life are actually found.
Excited to see that my new book, An Introduction to Reformed Apologetics: Warring with Idols, is the number 1 new release in its category! You can pick up a copy here:
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Are you truly discerning?
“Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong.
It is knowing the difference between right and almost right."
- C.H. Spurgeon
Tomorrow is the official release date of my new book Cathedral of Theology. It's on prolegomena . . . a theology of theology. You can order your copy here
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