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“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” -Romans 8:2 KJV Rules. They are both the bane of our existence and yet without them we have chaos. Don’t do this! Don’t do that! It seems in our modern society the rules…
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Jeremiah 33.19–22 (𝔐): Christ, the Church, and Contingency One of the most cited passages in the prophetic corpus is Jeremiah 31.31–34, where the Lord declares that He will “make a new covenant with the house of Israel […] I will put my law in their inward parts […] and they shall be my people […].”[1]…
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How does your church treat doctrine? Does it rank teachings into tiers? Organize them into sets? Or ignore them altogether in favor of vague belief? All of these modern frameworks—doctrinal triage, centered sets, bounded sets—are harmful to the faith. The truth is that if a doctrine is able to be at a secondary level then…
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I grew up in a nondenominational church back in Fresno, CA called Cross City Christian Church (back then it was called Northside). I owe a lot to this church. My passion for the scriptures, my baptismal grace, my love for the Lord. This church really instilled in me the seeds of a Christian life. Unfortunately,…
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Matthew 6.9–13 (𝔖): Scripture as Catechesis A pillar of Christian orthodoxy rests in the inerrancy, inspiration, and infallibility of the Scriptures. Christianity confesses that God gave His Word through the Law and Prophets, which bore witness to the Word Incarnate (cf. Rom. 3.21; Heb. 1.1–4). By nature, Scripture proceeds from the mouth of God (Jn.…
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Ezra 3.10-11 (𝔐): Liturgical Continuity Liturgical worship has formed the church’s service for the last two millennia. While the word “liturgy” carries cultic or ritualistic connotations for some, history speaks to the witness that liturgy has governed the worship of God in the Church universal. Liturgy functions to preserve the truth and give substance to…
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The Future of the Church in a Space Age & How the Anglican Church Can Respond Preface This paper is a hypothetical theological paradigm postulating that if human “progress” continues as it does unimpeded by our own destruction, whether that be by Christ’s return or society resetting itself as it often does, how will Christianity progress…
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The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), in accordance with its doctrinal standards and constitution, cannot in good faith allow members to willfully neglect infant baptism without calling them to repentance and enacting discipline if they persist. Currently many churches in the PCA are under the impression that Baptists may be members of PCA churches and…
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This paper argues that while Eastern Orthodoxy is a true church, the magisterial Protestant tradition better preserves the biblical and patristic deposit of faith in its doctrines of Monergism, Sola Apostolica, Ecclesiology, and cultural catholicity. In this paper I will explain why I am personally not Eastern Orthodox. Before I get into this discussion I…
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“The Common Faith Catechism: Restored in Christ” is a catechism I have been working on for over a year. The goal of this catechism is to be a pastoral aid to show the whole meaning of the human person in relation to God. This includes there value as the image of God and their relationship…