The Central Significance of Culture
Old Testament
Daily Family Worship: Household Devotions Each Morning and Evening as a Chief Means of Church Revival
Seventh Edition: December 2000 The Westminster Larger Catechism Q. & A. 156f states: 'Although all are not to be permitted to read the Word publicly to the congregation, yet all sorts of people are bound to read it apart by themselves and with their families. To which end the Holy Scriptures are to be translated… Read more »
Presbyterian Baptism in Noah’s Flood
It is interesting to see how the Neo-Catastrophist Henry Morris perceived Noah’s Flood — through his own spectacles of baptistic immersionism. There, he forgot it was only the unbaptized wicked who were totally submersed – and that it was only Noah’s family that was baptized, precisely by sprinkling from above. In his book The Beginning… Read more »
Women and Church Eldership
1. THE GENERAL MINISTRY OF ALL BELIEVERS Every human being, regardless of age or gender, should be involved in serving God as a "minister" or diakonos. Rom. 13:4 & I Tim. 1:12 and esp. I Pet. 4:10-11. And every Christian person (at his or her baptism) has been anointed and appointed to the general ministry… Read more »
Mount Sinai and the Sermon on the Mount
Preface The following paraphrastic translation is neither a strict translation nor a free paraphrase of Matthew chapter five. In a strict translation, an attempt is made to give a precise rendition of the writer's very words, taken straight from the ancient language he wrote in. Even the thoughtforms of the writer's own ancient culture are… Read more »
Holy Harvests: Annual Revivals at Whitsuntide Through Pentecost Feasts
– 1 – H O L Y H A R V E S T S Annual Revivals at Whitsuntide through Pentecost Feasts especially in Andrew Murray's South Africa from 1860 to 1990 – 2 – DEDICATION Dedicated to my dear wife, Nellie Lee, who knew by heart and showed forth from her life the fruits… Read more »
God Triune in the Beginning – and for the 21st Century
GOD TRIUNE IN THE BEGINNING — AND FOR THE 21ST CENTURY In Genesis 1:1, "God" translates 'Elohiym (PLURAL) — meaning: three or more Gods. It is used with the singular verb bara' — meaning: "He did create" (and NOT with the plural verb baru' meaning "They did create"). What that three-in-one God created, is said… Read more »
Daniel’s Eschatology
CHRIST'S KINGDOM AN EVER-INCREASING AND CONQUERING STONE Daniel 2 "O king, you saw…a great image [depicting four successive kingdoms]…. You kept on looking, until a Stone was cut out, without hands. This smote the image upon its iron-and-clay feet, and broke them into pieces…. And the Stone Which smote the image, became a great Mountain… Read more »
Biblical Presbyterian Eldership
Page 1 of 11 ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT, CONTENT & SCOPE OF THE OFFICE OF ELDERSHIP There is no more important officer in the Christian Church — – than the Elder. Whatever else Preachers and even Patriarchs and Apostles may be, -they are basically "Elders"1 too. One of the very words for "Elder" — -Presbuteros in the… Read more »
Creation and Commission: Genesis 1 to 3 – Translation and Commentary
– 2 – The Eternal God-Triune covenantally creates the Tri-Universe 1:1 God-Triune created [the Tri-Universec alias] the two Heavens and the Earth at the beginning. 1:2 Then, the unshaped Earth was empty. And darkness was upon the surface of the ocean depths. Yet God-Triune’s Spirit kept on hovering over the surface of the waters. 1:1a)… Read more »