Cultivating Holiness
Our friends at the Mid-Michigan Reformation Society recently hosted a meeting with Dr. Joel Beeke. Follow the link to hear "Cultivating Holiness." Dr. Beeke is the pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reform

Accepting Those Who Differ: Lessons On Unity From Romans 14 And 15
One of the issues that I have longed struggled with is how to maintain unity among believers. Because Christians believe in absolute truth, we often struggle to get along when we disagree on what the truth is. Doctrinal disagreement has long seperated believers from one another.Unfortunately,

The Jesus You Can't Ignore
Too often today Jesus is pictured as peace loving hippy who traveled around preaching love. While Jesus certainly loved peace and was the most loving person who ever lived, the contemporary portrayal of Jesus is myopic. In light of this, John MacArthur's book "The Jesus You Can't Ignore" provides a much n

Pastors, Elders, Deacons etc.
This posting is from the web site of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and is the position of the Alliance (www.AllianceNet.org) regarding pastors, elders etc. This can be found in the Q&A archives. Why Does the Church Need Pastors?Question BoxThis question asks “Why does the church need pastors, and what are pastors supposed to do?” One reason why this question is sometimes raised, and why a small portion of Christian churches do not have ordained ministers, is that the Bible speaks so strongly about the Holy Spirit’s ministry for all believers. We believe that, according to Scripture, every Christian can understand God’s Word with the

In Defense of Pastoral Leadership
Recently, a friend, Arthur Sido at "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness", has posted on his blog his own views and the links to others supporting the view that there is to be no human authority within the local church. The NEMRS affirms the view of church leadership expressed in the Westminster and London Baptist Confessio