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Blog: The Heavenly Proprietor

In this episode, we present the idea of God's proprietary rights over all that he has made (Genesis 1:1; Exodus 20:8-11; Deuteronomy 5:12-15; Psalm 130:8; Galatians 4:5; Psalm 24:1; Psalm 50:12; Psalm 89:11).

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Biblical Counseling Nicolas Muyres Biblical Counseling Nicolas Muyres

Counseling Theology: Christ’s Dual Natures

Considering the biblical teaching regarding the divinity of Christ. One place to look would be to the teaching of Paul found in Philippians 2. In verse 6 Paul plainly traces Christ’s life from eternity past, when he was in the form of God and equal to God, saying, “though [Jesus] was in the form of God, [he] did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.”

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God John Fry God John Fry

The Heavenly Proprietor

If it appeals to your logic that when an inventor creates something then he or she gets proprietary rights over his creation, how much more sense does it make that we should recognize the Preeminent Creator as the Owner over “The world, and all those who dwell in it” (Psalm 24:1)?

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Episode 13: God is Infinite

In this episode, we revisit the WLC Q7 which asks, "What is God?" Then, we provide some biblical basis for Louis Berkhof's claim that God is infinite, or free from all limitations (Job 11:1-9; 38:4-5).

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Atheism Nicolas Muyres Atheism Nicolas Muyres

The Folly of Atheism PT 1

Atheism is the worldview of fools. It touts itself as intellectual and scientific but is nothing more than a philosophy masquerading as neutral and objective.

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Theology John Fry Theology John Fry

God and Man

In preparation for this month’s podcast, where we will discuss Theology Proper and Anthropology utilizing Calvin’s Institutes, this brief survey of these two themes within the Pentateuch displays the biblical basis for God’s holiness and Man’s root problem: sin.

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Liturgy Rob Smith Liturgy Rob Smith

Jerusalem the Golden

Jerusalem the Golden is a hymn, composed by Alexander Ewing in 1853. He took the words from an ancient Medieval hymn, written by Bernard of Cluny in the 1100s.

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Levitical Worship is Reformed Worship

Most Evangelical Christians (including those within the Reformed camp) would not look to the book of Leviticus to derive its order of worship. Reformed Christians pride themselves on being a people who follow the Regulative Principle of Worship (i.e. we must only do what God commands us to do in worship), but when it comes to the rules for the RPW, we more often than not leave it within the confines of the New Covenant Scriptures.

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