Theology You Should Know

God sent His Son Jesus Christ to completely atone for the sins of His people, so that they are saved to worship Him forever and ever. This post covers the Second Head of the Canons of Dort.

Election is God choosing a people for His own possession, to whom He gives faith to trust in Christ so that they may enjoy eternal fellowship with Him forever.

This is an introduction to a five-part series on the Doctrines of Grace as they are expounded in the Canons of Dort, describing the nature of how God saves His people.

Martin Luther is perhaps the most popular figure of theological study, outside secondary literature on the life of Jesus Christ. As the foundational character of Protestantism, to control Luther is to control the reformation. For this reason, reconstructionist have done their best to create a Luther after their own theological image. Today it seems the Luther of faith governs the Luther of history seen with the Luther Renaissance and the Finnish School of interpretation. The former made Luther the German idealist and the later the product of Eastern Orthodoxy. Both camps removed Luther from his actual writings and the 17th c.e. confessional scholastics, who carried on his reform.

Christians watch films, just like with books, to learn more about the human condition. Film does open up many interesting and difficult issues, which requires Christians to be particularly wise and discerning as they watch movies, TV shows, and other film genres.

Learn a definition of the church in four minutes.

Luther found that by grace we are what we are in justification, declared right by an alien righteousness, that is God does not justify us because we are worthy, but by Christ who is supremely worthy. Jesus Christ hides our sin with his glory, he covers our disobedience by his obedience, and shadows our death with his death that the wrath of God can never find us. This is the gospel recovered in the Reformation.

In approaching literature, Christians can look for books that accurately capture and display the human condition in all its innumerable facets.

We commemorate Reformation Day on October 31, for on this day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses outlining corruption in the Church to the door of the Wittenberg Church, sparking the Protestant Reformation. The Reformation recovered and clarified the great doctrines of grace and purified the Church from error.

This is not just dry history. Salvation is at stake in a debate that took place over 1500 years ago. Listen to this podcast and rediscover the theology and piety of one of the most influential Church Fathers.