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Commissioned Church Workers

There has been a lot of chatter about Recommendation 7 from the PCA women’s study committee.  Concerns arise from all sides about what it does or does not say about Church authority and whether the notion of a commissioned church worker constitutes the creation of a...

By Whose Authority? (Luke 20:1-8)

http://mp3.sa-media.com/filearea/641269371/641269371.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download20 One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up 2 and said to him, “Tell us by...

Luke 8:40-56

http://www.hopeofchrist.net/sermon/2010/20100221-Eve-Luke8;40-56.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadLuke 8:40-56 (ESV) — 40 Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him. 41 And there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler...

Giving Honor to our Rulers (Romans 13)

I recently taught on Romans 13 and it gave me a fresh perspective on the passage. Romans 13 certainly teaches us about how we ought to honor and respect those who govern us and that, in fact, their authority comes from God. I don’t believe, however, that it says...

Theonomy: Three Questions Answered

Jacob asked the following: Theonomy is concerned with three irreducible questions, which anti-theonomists cannot answer in an epistemologically satisfactory manner: 1) Which sins should civil magistrates punish? 2) What should those punishments be? 3) How does one...