Gothard offered to save families not by offering to parents and children free salvation by grace alone, through faith alone but by law.
I’m the homeschooling mom of eleven children, the five youngest still at home. My husband was arrested for felony child abuse in September 2015, and I’ve learned from the extreme needs we’ve experienced and from the help we’ve been given.
Some of the most glaring distortions of Calvin’s ministry and doctrine are related to his understanding of the law. First, there is the question of the law and society: Was Calvin an ayatollah, dedicated to making Geneva a revived theocracy? Second, did Calvin embrace or depart from Luther with respect to the relation of law […]
The term “Trinity” is not a Biblical term, and we are not using Biblical language when we define what is expressed by it as the doctrine that there is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in […]
The Marrow was not well received by the 18th century General Assembly of the Scottish Church. When Thomas Boston recovered and promoted it, controversy ensued.
According to Hebrews 12, Christians, i.e., those who have received, by grace alone, through faith alone, the benefits of the covenant of grace, are motivated to sanctification not by the covenant of works ('do this and live') but by the covenant of grace ('do this because Christ lived for you').
“The Marrow of Modern Divinity is a book with an interesting history and an important message. The title is indicative of the book’s content: it is filled with choice quotations from key Reformers, including Luther, Calvin, Bullinger, Ursinus, and Ames. First published in 1645 by an English bookseller/barber/surgeon named Edward Fisher, it was also at […]
…Together, the Danvers Statement and this publication define complementarianism as a movement. Since then, many of the founders and council members of CBMW have written extensively on biblical manhood and womanhood.
“As a pastor for over 25 years, I have seen the sorrow of many godly Christian parents as one, some, or all of their children have left the faith as adults. But the sorrow arises from more than just the obvious spiritual concern for their children. There is also overwhelming guilt: what did I do […]