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Glen Clary/April 1, 2016
The Lord’s Prayer in Reformed Worship, Pt. 3
The Lord’s Prayer has six petitions: three thy petitions and three us petitions. The first three petitions have in view God’s name, God’s kingdom and God’s will; the last three …
Jeffrey A. Stivason/March 31, 2016
The Nature of Christ’s Suffering and Death
Someone once said, “There is nothing new under the sun.” It is a truth acknowledged but often forgotten. Have you ever been in a conversation when someone acted as though …
Glen Clary/March 31, 2016
The Lord’s Prayer in Reformed Worship, Pt. 2
The Lord’s Prayer may be divided into three sections (cf. LC 188 ). It begins with an invocation, “Our Father in heaven.” The middle section consists of six petitions. …
Glen Clary/March 30, 2016
The Lord’s Prayer in Reformed Worship, Pt. 1
Since the beginning of the Christian church, the Lord’s Prayer has been used as a guide for daily prayer. The treatises of Tertullian, Cyprian, and Origen on the Lord’s Prayer …
Camden M. Bucey/March 30, 2016
Owen on Limited Atonement
If Christ hath merited grace and glory for all those for whom he died, if he died for all, how comes it to pass that these things are not communicated …
Glen Clary/March 28, 2016
The Origins of the Church Calendar
Now that Easter is over, this is a good opportunity to reflect on what just happened yesterday and to share some thoughts on the origin of the church calendar. As …
Glen Clary/March 26, 2016
The Oldest Easter Sermon
The oldest extant Easter sermon from the ancient church is a sermon preached by Melito, the bishop of Sardis in Asia Minor at the end of the second century. This sermon …
Glen Clary/March 23, 2016
The Lord’s Supper and Eschatology
Having seven children, I’ve seen a lot of cartoons. Every now and then, I’ll take them to the theater to see a new release that they’re dying to see. Since …
Glen Clary/March 21, 2016
Infant Baptism: Commanded, Forbidden, or Neither?
Infant baptism is forbidden unless it is commanded. Now, that may seem obvious to most Christians, but there are some who believe that infant baptism is lawful even if it …
Glen Clary/March 18, 2016
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi—A Reformed Perspective
The term “liturgical theology” refers both to theology of worship and theology from worship: the former meaning doctrines about worship; the latter, doctrines derived from liturgical texts. More recently, however, …
Glen Clary/March 16, 2016
What hath Geneva to do with Canterbury?
Why are Presbyterians worshiping like Anglicans? Why do some PCA churches have Ash Wednesday services? Why are they preaching the lectionary and following the church calendar? An Episcoterian (the term …
Glen Clary/March 15, 2016
John Knox’s Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper
In 1550, the Scottish Reformer John Knox wrote a brief summary of the Reformed doctrine of the Lord’s Supper. Knox entitled his document Here is briefly declared in a summary, according …
Glen Clary/March 14, 2016
Early Christian Worship
What would it have been like to worship with the saints at Rome in the middle of the second century? One can only imagine how thrilling it must have been …
Glen Clary/March 11, 2016
Communion Prayers in the Ancient Church
In 1873, “Archbishop Philotheos Bryennios was browsing in the library of the Greek Convent of the Holy Sepulchre in Istanbul when, by chance, he noticed the text of the Didache …
Glen Clary/March 11, 2016
Who Discovered the Regulative Principle?
Most students of the Reformation recognize that Martin Luther discovered (more accurately re-discovered) the doctrine of justification by faith alone and that Ulrich Zwingli discovered the symbolic interpretation of the Lord’s …