Confessions, Creeds, and Catechisms: Guidance for the Church

During this season at Servants of Grace, we’ve been considering the confessions, creeds, and catechisms inside the local church. Today, many believe that truth is all about how we feel, or they dismiss the place of doctrine in the Christian Life. Some even believe they can live the Christian life without being part of the […]

You can learn theology by reading good books, but if you want to see theology connect with life, listen to someone pray. Prayer is theology gone live. J. I. Packer defines theology as, “first the activity of thinking and speaking about God (theologizing), and second the product of that activity.”[i] Our theology, what we believe

One of the greatest joys of the Christian life is knowing that we have not only been purchased by the shed blood of Jesus Christ, but that we have been joined together to Christ by faith. We are counted as members of His very Body. The beauty of this consists in the fact that all

The Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed, the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith…These are just a few of the many creeds and confessions of the Church. In fact, the local church I pastor collectively embraces these creeds and confessions. But why do we need them? As someone who holds to Sola Scriptura

The Research Center at Arizona Christian University says, “Individuals who call themselves Christian are the largest of the various “Christian” segments evaluated and include the broadest spectrum of theological points of view. In total, currently, about seven out of every ten adults (69%) adopt the label “Christian” to identify their faith.” The study also states

On September 16th, 2001, churches across the United States were packed. It is estimated there was a 40 percent increase in average attendance at Sunday morning services.[i] Americans were gathering in shock, fear, dismay, and sorrow about what had happened five days prior on 9/11. A question was at the front of everyone’s mind: What

I remember my high school principal once talked about the importance of education. He told my class that we could lose our jobs, our possessions, and even our freedom, but no one could take away what we have learned. He wanted us to understand the value of knowledge. Unlike material possessions, which can be taken

In speaking of the nourishment of Scripture, Spurgeon conveyed: “I have many an old book in my library in which there have been book-worms, and I have sometimes amused myself with tracing a worm. I do not know how he gets to the volume originally, but being there he eats his way into it. He