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BOOK REVIEW: The Steadfast Love of the Lord: Experiencing the Life-Changing Power of God’s Unchanging Affection by Sam Storms
God is love. I don’t think there is a more universally held belief about the Christian God than that statement. Things go massively off...
Pastor Jared
4 days ago3 min read
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From Forgiveness to Reconciliation, Part 3: A Practical Example
We have mentioned throughout our look at forgiveness and reconciliation that the whole point of both is for the spiritual maturity of all...
Pastor Jared
May 303 min read
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GUEST BLOGGER: What is a Successful Marriage? Part 2: Affirmations
NOTE: I have invited the contributions of Stu Reimer to write in this space on the issues of marriage and family. If you follow CRC at...
Pastor Jared
May 234 min read
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From Forgiveness to Reconciliation, Part 2: Ministers of Reconciliation
In 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 Paul speaks about reconciliation in its gospel context. What he does in this chapter is to remind us first that...
Pastor Jared
May 164 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: What About Free Will?: Reconciling Our Choices with God’s Sovereignty by Scott Christensen
This is how the conversations usually progress after I mention to someone that I am a pastor… Someone: Where are you a Pastor? Me:...
Pastor Jared
May 93 min read
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From Forgiveness to Reconciliation, Part 1: Be Reconciled!
We previously spent 5 blogs speaking about the nature and need for us to be forgiving people; to have the gospel cultivate a disposition...
Pastor Jared
May 24 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen
NOTE: This will be the last blog until May. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss one. The liberalism of Machen’s time -- the early...
Pastor Jared
Mar 284 min read
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Biblical Forgiveness: A Summary
We’ve covered a fair bit of territory in our four previous blogs covering forgiveness. Crucially, we have seen that forgiveness is really...
Pastor Jared
Mar 215 min read
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GUEST BLOGGER: A Successful Marriage? Part 1: Denials
NOTE: I have invited the contributions of Stu Reimer to write in this space on the issues of marriage and family. If you follow CRC at...
Pastor Jared
Mar 144 min read
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Biblical Forgiveness Part 4: How many times must I forgive???
"Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said...
Pastor Jared
Mar 73 min read
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It's Been A Long Road
When we started working our way through Ephesians, I mentioned that it will take us until July after which we will break for the month of...
Pastor Jared
Feb 282 min read
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Biblical Forgiveness Part 3: A high stakes game
Following the Lord’s Prayer in which Jesus tells us that as part of our prayer life we need to seek the forgiveness of God for our debts...
Pastor Jared
Feb 214 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: Ten Myths of Calvinism: Recovering the Breadth of the Reformed Tradition
This is book number three on the topic of Calvinism which we have reviewed in this space (and on the Here I Sit Podcast ). It is written...
Pastor Jared
Feb 143 min read
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Biblical Forgiveness Part 2: Definitions
We ended our last blog with this statement… God has been, is, and always will be a forgiving God. He offers us forgiveness for sin full...
Pastor Jared
Feb 74 min read
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GUEST BLOGGER: Laying Foundations
NOTE: I have invited the contributions of Stu Reimer to write in this space on the issues of marriage and family. If you follow CRC at...
Pastor Jared
Jan 313 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: Killing Calvinism: How to Destroy a Perfectly Good Theology From the Inside by Greg Dutcher
You’ve probably all heard the phrase - ‘Cage-stage Calvinist.’ It’s not a complementary term as it refers to someone who has figured out...
Pastor Jared
Jan 244 min read
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Biblical Forgiveness, Part 1
We live in a world that doesn’t work the way it should. We all know that. One of the very real results of living in a fallen world is...
Pastor Jared
Jan 173 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: The Joy of Calvinism: Knowing God’s Personal, Unconditional, Irresistible, Unbreakable Love by Greg Forster
I’ve been a reformed theologian, or Calvinist, for almost 30 years. During those years, I have taught at several institutions, pastored...
Pastor Jared
Jan 104 min read
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A Christmas Reminder
NOTE: This will be the last blog until the New Year. Make sure to subscribe to receive all the blogs in your inbox and look for the next...
Pastor Jared
Nov 29, 20243 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: Redemption: Accomplished and Applied by John Murray
Other than the Bible, this book is the one I hold dearest to my heart. I first read it in the summer of 1998 between the first and second...
Pastor Jared
Nov 22, 20244 min read
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