Category Archives: Doctrine

Creeds + Catechisms: Why You Don’t Have to Be Afraid


  Creed and catechism. Two words that scare a lot of people. Do they scare you? Turn you off? If so, it doesn’t have to be that way. Maybe catechisms scare you because of your rigorous Catholic school upbringing. Perhaps creeds appall you because of your experience in a church that split over “doctrine.” Or…
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God’s Sovereignty and Why It Doesn’t Contradict Man’s Freedom


Where you learn that God’s sovereignty means the absolute rule, authority and government of God over all His creation…including man’s freedom. Supreme. Superior. Chief. Foremost. Highest. Preeminent. Superb. Superlative. Ultimate. Utmost. Predominate. Unsurpassable. Ruler. These are all words used to describe sovereign. And they apply to God’s sovereignty. God’s sovereignty means the absolute rule…the absolute…
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Hell: What’s at Stake If We Neglect It?


  What happens when orthodox Christians neglect the doctrine of hell? We begin to tinker with orthodoxy in some unhealthy ways. Hell doesn’t get much press. Blame it on the  and its fear of all things supernatural. To be fair, Enlightenment writers were reacting to a gross abundance of commentary on hell. In fact, this environment forced  to remark that some…
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