Q45: How does Christ’s resurrection benefit us?
A: First, by His resurrection He has overcome death, so that He could make us share in the righteousness which He had obtained for us by His death. Second, by His power we too are raised up to a new life. Third, Christ’s...
Today in American History: April 19th, 1775
The shot heard round the world!
The American Revolution starts at Lexington and Concord, read more here about this incendiary day in American history, a day that kicked off America's war for independence!🧵
Assisted suicide bills are always sold to the public as increasing autonomy and preserving dignity when we all know they do the opposite: they prey on the weakest and most vulnerable among us, precisely by denying their inviolable dignity and seeing them as better off dead.
On this day, in 1536, William Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake for translating the Scriptures into English for the common man. His final words, “Lord, open the King of England’s eyes.”
Latimer, when being burned at the stake (Oct 16, 1555): “Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England as shall never be put out!”
“When we don’t divide it up into law and gospel, when we don’t say law over here, gospel over there, when we say it’s all gospel, it’s all law, it’s all good” Douglas Wilson, “Visible and Invisible Church Revisited,” lecture (Auburn Avenue Pastors’ Conference, January 2002).
A strict abortion law that took effect in Texas in 2021 may have led to nearly 10,000 more births than expected in the last nine months of 2022, according to research published in the journal JAMA. https://t.co/7mIbOXflfc
@RealTheoBro I agree re the NC not extending the OC, but the OC that became obsolete is the Mosaic (Heb. 9:18–22), not the Abrahamic, which was gracious & foreshadowed the NC (Rom. 4:16).
Abrahamic pre-Sinai was a mixed visible church, as is the NT. In both only believers have the substance.