Bible Text: Psalm 103 | Preacher: Rev. Angus Stewart | Series: Lord’s Day 46, The Lord’s Prayer

I. Praying to Father
II. Praying to Father in Heaven

Bible Text: Acts 15:1-35 | Preacher: Rev. Angus Stewart | Series: Jerusalem and Antioch

I. The Occasion of the Jerusalem Assembly
II. The Discussion at the Jerusalem Assembly
III. The Decisions of the Jerusalem Assembly

Article 2: By What Means God is Made Known Unto Us.
We know Him by two means: first, by the creation, preservation and government of the universe; which is before our eyes as a most elegant book, wherein all creatures, great and small, are as so many characters leading us to contemplate the invisible things of God, namely, His eternal power and divinity, as the apostle Paul saith (Rom.1:20). All which things are sufficient to convince men, and leave them without excuse.
Secondly, He makes Himself more clearly and fully known to us by His holy and divine Word, that is to say, as far as is necessary for us to know in this life, to His glory and our salvation.
 
 
Nazi Perversion of Christianity:
Making (Nazi) History a Source of God’s (Gracious) Revelation
(quotes from Nazi apologist theologian, D. Cajus Fabricius,
Positive Christianity in the Third Reich [Dresden: H. Püschel, 1937])
 
“It is true that Christendom is not of opinion there is no other Divine revelation except through Jesus Christ. On the contrary we know that God’s hand is to be traced in history and in Nature” (p. 69; italics added).
“… our German Volk is a part of the Aryan race; German blood courses through our veins, and we live on German soil. We love this Volk with all the surrender we are capable of, and we love precisely his people of ours today, raised as it has been from out the depths of direst need by an overwhelming act of Divine Providence. And in this great happening we look upon the fact that the Führer, Adolf Hitler has been given to us as a very special mark of God’s mercy towards us. We shall never be weary of thanking God for this special ordering of our history in the great happenings of the world” (p. 46).
“One fact in this struggle for existence has become to them an overpowering reality: the Führer. In him they have experienced the incontestable fact that all great happenings in history do not originate in the universal but in the particular, not in crowds but in some great personality. In him too, they have experienced that great historical deeds are not only planned in the magnificence of royal palaces, or at the official boards of parliaments and ministries, or even in the buildings of large banking-houses, but may have their source in one simple life that started in modest circumstances, having to struggle onward through poverty and privation, and after much hard fighting finally reaches the height, and even on the height thinks only of self-denial and sacrifice” (pp. 70-71).
“The Führer himself belongs to those who fulfil the will of God and realize the life of Christ in this life in an extraordinary degree. The Führer in uniting the nation and helping it to rise from the laxity and neglect into which it had fallen, to a sense of moral discipline, fulfils the law of Christ respecting love in a way few mortals could ever hope to emulate … And when he [i.e., the Führer] himself in the strength of his trust in God places the destiny of the whole nation in the hands of the Father, he manifests the Spirit which through the coming of Christ has become a living power in the world” (p. 71).
 

Bible Text: II Corinthians 5:18-19 | Preacher: Rev. Martyn McGeown

I. The Meaning
II. The Accomplishment
III. The Proclamation

Bible Text: John 10:28-30 | Preacher: Rev. Martyn McGeown

I. The Meaning
II. The Necessity
III. The Reason

Article 1: There is One Only God.
We all believe with the heart, and confess with the mouth, that there is one only simple and spiritual Being, which we call God; and that He is eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, immutable, infinite, almighty, perfectly wise, just, good, and the overflowing fountain of all good.

Bible Text: Acts 13-14 | Preacher: Rev. Angus Stewart | Series: Jerusalem and Antioch

I. The Methods They Employed
II. The Difficulties They Experienced
III. The Report They Gave

Bible Text: Acts 13-14 | Preacher: Rev. Angus Stewart | Series: Jerusalem and Antioch

I. The Methods They Employed
II. The Difficulties They Experienced
III. The Report They Gave

Article 1: There is One Only God.
We all believe with the heart, and confess with the mouth, that there is one only simple and spiritual Being, which we call God; and that He is eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, immutable, infinite, almighty, perfectly wise, just, good, and the overflowing fountain of all good.
 
 
David J. Engelsma, The Sixteenth-Century Reformation of the Church, p. 63:

It is, however, the urgency of the conflict of the Reformed faith with Anabaptism in our day that needs to be sounded and appreciated. If one thinks only of the physical descendants of the Anabaptists, the Hutterites in South Dakota and the Amish in Indiana, he will regard the notion of a conflict as nonsense. But let him consider that the spiritual descendants of the Anabaptists dominate the American religious scene. Non-Roman Catholic religion in America is overwhelmingly Anabaptist. It rejects infant baptism; the covenant; total depravity; justification by faith alone; and sovereign, gracious predestination. Its gospel is salvation by free will and good works. It is anti-doctrinal and anti-confessional. It spurns the unity of the church as manifested in a denomination. It is individualistic; experience-centered; and millennial, dreaming the Anabaptist dream of the thousand-year, carnal reign of Christ on earth.
There is even in some quarters the surfacing of the latent Anabaptist characteristic of revolution. The latter-day Anabaptists are willing to resort to force against the state over their church-schools, over abortion, and over other laws that they judge oppressive and unjust.
There churches call themselves evangelical or fundamentalist. In fact, they are Anabaptist.
The preachers who are the successors of Carlstadt, Muntzer, Grebel, Hutter, and Joris are Billy Graham, Jack Hyles, Jerry Falwell, Ed Dobson, Bill Hybels, and the entire charismatic swarm.
In one of history’s ironies, the Anabaptists who once skulked in woods and fields, the outlaws of society, now worship in huge cathedrals and command the attention, and even deference, of the [American] president.
 

Bible Text: John 6:38-40 | Preacher: Rev. Angus Stewart

I. What It Is
II. What Christ Does