Category: Doctrine
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Which Bunyan character are you?
Character Reference: Bunyan’s characters look like characters from my church (and yours). These past two weeks I’ve had some brief encounters with other ‘Christians’ about THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS of John Bunyan. Rather than adding a personal COMMENT to one of my Saturday Posts on Doctrines of the Church, I thought I might ask you directly…
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Convicted Characters of Christ’s Church
Continuing with the characters of Bunyan’s allegory, THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS. The MAN FLEEING THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION with a burden on his back ASKED EVANGELIST the question every preacher would like to hear: What must I do? And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And…
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Church of the Lost Pilgrims
The Pilgrim’s Progress in our Church Many Christians are familiar with John Bunyan’s, THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, but IF you will look around you at church this Sunday, you may be surprised to see some of these allegorical characters sitting right next to you in the pew or carrying on conversation at a table in your…
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Preaching Biblical Doctrine to Ourselves
FROM the Word of God TO the saints of Christ’s Church Anyone who does not remain in Christ’s teaching but goes beyond it does not have God. The one who remains in that teaching, this one has both the Father and the Son. Second letter of the Apostle John 1:9 – CSB IF you squirmed…
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Best NOT Preach This
Last time in our Saturday Post series on Doctrine (of and for the Church) we examined some DISTINCTIONS of D. Martyn Lloyd Jones on the Christian Life from a Jason Meyer biography, DOCTRINE AND LIFE AS FUEL AND FIRE. This Saturday we will not only continue with some of those distinctions, but I will introduce…
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Distinction between the Kingdom and the Church of Christ
Kingdom OR Church? Is distinction lacking in the Gospel of YOUR Church? WE like to think that OUR Church has a great vision of Gospel grace, but do we PREACH any distinction between DOCTRINES and the WORK of evangelical ‘christians’ from OUR stages of worship? For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for…
