A Reformed Layman's Perspective on Theology et al

  The Gospel is the good tidings that God revealed to us in Christ Jesus.      All mankind was represented in Adam and in his fall all of us became the children of wrath sentenced to death and separation from God.      Jesus Christ, the second Adam, takes man’s nature upon Himself fulfilling every jot and tittle of the law and takes upon Himself the punishment and death due us.  Since He was sinless death could not hold him and He was raised for our justification.      Now by command of the Father this mediation is preached to all men everywhere that upon repentance and belief in Him not only are all our sins forgiven but also we will spend ETERNITY with Him in heavenly bliss.                            NOW THAT’S “GOOD NEWS” . Written 05/20/2018

 What has really puzzled me for some time is that there are actually some who refer to themselves as "atheists". And I wonder, is there really any such thing as an "atheist"? I've heard there are no atheists in foxholes and there are no atheists in the hereafter . Here is the Dictionary.com defintition: "An atheist is one who denies the existence of a deity or of divine beings". Now, bear in mind, as Christians we believe, that an atheist is created in the image of God..just as is the believer. In other words we all..atheist or believer..bear the marks of the One who has created us, e.g., with faculties of rationality, affections, a sense of morality, spirituality, etc. Paul says, " that which is known about God is evident within them .." (Rom 1:19) Dictionary.com also has a definition for us concerning God: "the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe". As a Christian, of course, I come with a Christia...

And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: ....So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them....and on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; a nd he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.” A voice speaking from heaven to Theistic Evolutionists..... “Well done, creatures. Thanks to the sacrifice of the less fit and to the victories of the more fit, you have completed the work of creation; you have brought man into being.” ( Wm M Schweitzer ) (....but don’t you take a " sabbath rest ", because in the evolutionary scheme of things...the work is never done!   Sorry...no rest.  Dave Van) Written 01/26/2015  

  SALVATION IS OF THE LORD    Dave Van Inwegen It was a Thursday, 1951.  I remember it vividly.  Thursdays...the Cisco Kid came on TV. He was my hero.  I was 12 years old. Now, in walks Dad and says  “get up we’re going to a church function”.  What?  Church again?  As a Pastor’s son I was saturated  with church.  Sundays.. I attended four services. There was Sunday School then worship service,  then youth group in the evening and then another worship service. On Wednesdays..prayer meeting, then an occasional ice cream social (which I didn’t mind)...and now Thursdays also?  I was churched out.  Dad said.. “get in the car”.  On the way he said that I just might like what we’re going to do this evening.  As it turned out he was right.  We went to the Kansas City Bible Institute for a function entitled “Sky Pilots of America”.    Sky Pilots was a Christian organization estab...

   John 11: Excerpt from R C Sprouls commentary on the Gospel of John. The day before I preached on this passage at St. Andrew’s, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas while heading for a landing here in Central Florida. All seven astronauts aboard were killed. I watched television coverage of the tragedy for hour after hour that day, but the same picture was shown over and over again. It was the image of the spacecraft disintegrating and leaving a trail of smoke in the air. I couldn’t help thinking what a catastrophe this was for the families of the people who had been instantly destroyed, but I also thought that if there were believers among those crew members, just as quickly as they died, they were in heaven. If they were believers, they could not die. Yes, they died biologically, but biological death doesn’t disturb the continuity of living, personal existence for God’s people in the slightest.

 IS IT ALL COMING TO AN END    (Dave Van Inwegen) Is it all coming to a conclusion? Has the “old serpent, the Devil, Satan been loosed a little season” (Rev 20:3) I read a Facebook meme the other day, it said: “I used to wonder how the Devil could deceive entire nations like the Bible said he could; I don’t wonder any more.”  So many nations today seem to be infected with the same “woke” disease. The deception is worldwide. One wokster has listed 107 genders in 2023. Is there coming a finality to the reality as we know it. The direct answer to this question (according to Sacred Scripture) is yes, but...then we may ask why or maybe even...when?  How long is Satan's “ little season” as mentioned in Rev Chap 20? At the outset the Book of Genesis tells us that “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”. (Gen 1:1) At the end the Book of The Revelation tells us God creates a “new heaven and a new earth”. (Rev 21:1) There is much comfort in the catec...