The Westminster Road to Church Unity “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they alsomay be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” (John 17:21) Westminster Abbey, London by Stuart DiNenno All those who call themselves Presbyterians should understand … Read more
We Cannnot Escape Theocracy by Stuart DiNenno “We do not live in a theocracy.” The reality is that we do always live in a theocracy, regardless of whether we acknowledge it or not, for the simple reason that God is inescapable. “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the … Read more
Pessimism About the Future ofChristendom is Cowardly and Faithless by Stuart DiNenno For Christians, pessimism about the future is cowardly and faithless. A view that the world is going to become worse and worse, and that Christianity will not ultimately prevail among the nations, is a heathen view. It is to believe that the gates … Read more
We Cannot Take Cultural Marxist Terms and Use Them in a Christian Way by Stuart DiNenno I wish Christians would get this through their thick skulls: We cannot take Cultural Marxist terms such as “racism,” “sexism,” “homophobia,” “antisemitism,” “xenophobia,” etc. and use them in a Christian way. We cannot use words that were invented by … Read more
Goodman: When Man Measures Obedience By HisOwn Judgment, He Substitutes Antichrist for Christ “For when vile man, replenished with pride, vain glory, and gross ignorance, will measure obedience with the crooked line of his own judgment, and not with the infallible truth of God’s holy word, he must prefer his own decrees, fantasies, and ordinances, … Read more
Rutherford: A Tyrannical Power Does NotFit the Definition of a Power From God ”Tyranny being a work of Satan, is not from God, because sin, either habitual or actual, is not from God: the power that is, must be from God; the magistrate, as magistrate, is good in nature of office, and the intrinsic end … Read more
Charnock on Men Putting Themselves In Place ofGod by Enacting Laws Against God’s Commands “So foolishly fond are men to put themselves in the place of God, and usurp a jurisdiction over men’s consciences: and to presume that laws made against the interest and command of God, must be of more force than the laws … Read more
Murray: Civil Government Is Obligated to ConductIts Affairs in Accordance with God’s Will “[It is an error] if it is thought that the Christian revelation, the Bible, does not come to the civil authority with a demand for obedience to its direction and precept as stringent and inescapable as it does to the individual, to … Read more
Pink on the Truths That Need To Be Published Today “What is needed today is a scriptural setting forth of the condition of the natural man — his total depravity, his spiritual insensibility, his inveterate hostility to God, the fact that he is “condemned already” (John 3:18) and that the wrath of a sin-hating God … Read more
Theodoretus on the Comfort Given byScripture to Those Who Suffer False Accusation “To them that suffer under false accusation the greatest comfort is given by the words of Scripture. When such a sufferer is wounded by the lying words of an unbridled tongue, and feels the sharp stings of distress, he remembers the story of … Read more