It is perfectly obvious that not everyone submits to everyone else, and it is foolish to imagine it so. Elders do not submit themselves to parishioners, police do not submit themselves to citizens, and husbands do not submit themselves to wives. What Paul is indicating here is that, although not all people submit to each other, all people do submit to someone.

Wolfgang Musculus was, as Richad Muller says, one of the “important second-generation codifiers of the reformed faith”[1] alongside Calvin, Vermigli, and Hyperius.

It is unquestionable that infants and young children were allowed at the Lord’s table in the early church. Calvin and Musculus admit as much.

We’re concerned with the more pressing question regarding the participants in the Supper. Here, our interests are focused on “who may partake?” rather than “what does it mean to partake?” This question is indeed more pressing, because if we aren’t granting admittance to all those for whom Christ has given his body and blood, it will avail little to the church.

While I respect the conscience of these brothers and sisters, it makes them the weaker, and for this I do not despise them, but I offer the following so they may mature into the fullness of Christ.

If we are moving toward that view of glory, and we have the blessed assurance of God’s promise that it will happen, we ought to be joyful and triumphant, building the Kingdom of God by the proclamation of the Gospel, one generation at a time.

If this Divine Design is easy to comprehend and for the prosperity of its adherents, then why is it abused so flippantly today?

If from the pulpit you only hear, week after week, about your union with Christ, and every passage of scripture that is preached culminates with “and Christ succeeded where you failed” or “and Christ did what you and I could never do” or “therefore we thank God for our union with Christ,” then you have a pastor feeding you milk from a big-boy sized rubber nipple.

In this episode, we continue our series by looking at God's mercy defined, developed, and delivered (Luke 1:50-54; 2 Corinthians 1:3-5; Lamentations 3:22-24).

The confession articulates – in no uncertain terms – that salvation is within God’s covenant, yet it is only a possibility, not a guarantee. One way Jesus articulated this truth was by his parable of the wheat and the tares (Matthew 13:24-43).

Here's an update on what's been happening in my life and an explanation - somewhat - as to where I've been.

Holiness indeed characterizes the church and God put church discipline in place not to ostracize his children, but rather to protect the holiness of his Bride, something any husband or wife can appreciate.

Bunyan is as theologically uncompromising as the finest Strict Baptist, but he chose to live by love.

Let us remember that the wicked only ever temporarily succeed. The righteous only ever temporarily fail.

If God chooses those who are saved, then why evangelize?

In his request for the word of truth to persist in his mouth, David was in fact asking that his heart would be continually filled with faith.

How often do the saints of God feel ill equipped to answer those who come against our Lord? How quickly do we become dismayed with feelings of inadequacy, incompetence, and weakness that overcome us when we are opposed by infidels? This is an all-to-often occurrence for the redeemed, but it ought not be.

Biblical sympathy is the ability (not the necessity) to feel what someone else feels as well as the ability to understand how others feel. It is the capacity to feel another person’s feelings, thoughts, or attitudes vicariously, as a distinct and separate person, coming alongside a sufferer for their help and betterment.