Pastor of Heritage Reformed Presbyterian Church. My writings represent my own views, not others. And stop slandering.
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Declare Me Innocent, O LORD
Declare me innocent, O LORD;
I walk in blameless ways,
and I have trusted in the LORD,
not wav’ring all my days.
Examine me and prove me, LORD;
test heart and mind, I pray.
Your love surrounds me; from your truth
my feet will never stray.
I do not sit with worthless men;
I shun the hypocrite.
I hate the crowd of wicked men;
with them I will not sit.
I wash my hands in innocence,
and blameless is my heart;
I go about your altar, LORD,
the place you set apart.
I speak aloud your awesome deeds,
your praises I will tell.
I love your habitation, LORD,
the place your glory dwells.
Sweep not away my soul, O LORD,
with those who hate your way,
nor take away my life with those
who love to wound and slay.
For their right hands are full of bribes;
they plot iniquity.
But I will lead a blameless life;
in mercy set me free.
My feet will stand with confidence
upon a level place,
and in the great assembly I
will praise the LORD of grace.
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This is mythology, btw.
“Ecclesia semper reformanda est:
The church is always to be reformed or always needing to be reformed;
A saying often attributed to the early modern Reformed but as yet not documented from their actual usage. The phrase and its variants... are most probably all twentieth-century inventions, employed for the sake of justifying doctrinal change. Early modern identifications of the church as reformanda do not carry with them the modern claim that it was the intention of the Reformers that doctrine be constantly modified to suit the times: rather, use of the term connoted such things as the need to move further away from the abuses and superstitions of the Roman church or... a need to be continually observant in the reformation of Christian life.”—Richard A. Muller; Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms (Baker Academic; eBook Ed.), pp. 141-142
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Happy Reformation Day, and Lord's Day tomorrow.
To celebrate, we have a free download on our website for today & tomorrow.
It's a biography of Martin Luther by Melchior Adam, a 17th century German Calvinist.
Go to our website > Resources > Downloads, and scroll to the end.
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Or, and hear me out here… we shouldn’t act like we’re smarter than everyone that came before us.
You set up a false dichotomy.
Danny claims to be “Reformed,” but listen to Jerome Zanchi (major 17th century Reformed divine) respond to this sort of errant thinking:
“14. The faithful interpretations of the devout and learned should not be condemned.
Indeed, although the Holy Scriptures are perspicuous in those things that are necessary for salvation, we nevertheless do not reject the interpretations and explications of devout men who are both learned and skillful, whether they are ancient or more recent, namely, their interpretations and explanations that are pursued on the basis of those same Holy Scriptures and insofar as the Scriptures are explained by the Scriptures and in accordance with the first foundations of faith (1 Thess. 5:21). The sum of these contained in the Apostles’ Creed as well as in the creeds of the truly ancient and holy ecumenical councils convened against prominent heretics.”—Jerome Zanchi; Confession of the Christian Religion (RHB Publishing; 2025), p. 49
The others don't want you trusting or often times even reading the Bible, at least not all of it. They want you to doubt the Scriptures and trust the Church, but they couch this as being unable to understand the Scriptures and yet somehow being able to understand the Church.
America was founded as a Protestant Nation and by God’s grace it will be kept one…
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guy: “separation of church and state!”
same guy: “church membership should ground immigration policy”
"I am more than willing to have anyone who will be a citizen with me in heaven to be a member of my household here on earth! We are all brothers and sisters in Christ after all!" Oops.
Yeah, just say no to the global citizen error. Being a fellow Christian doesn't make you or give you a right to be a fellow citizen of the same country anymore than being a fellow Christian gives you the right to dissolve families. The distinction between native and foreigner is biblical, and to destroy that is sin. A foreigner in the Old covenant who came to faith in the God of Israel did not become an Israelite as a result. They became covenant members of the Church and Kingdom of God, citizens of the heavenly kingdom, but not citizens of Israel simply due to Spiritual conversion. Foreigners were to be treated well, but they were still to be treated as foreigners, not as natives, and certainly not as if their race or ethnicity somehow magically became of one of the tribes/sons of Israel.
Pentecost did not erase these natural distinctions. The new covenant doesn't destroy nations and distinct races/peoples. God has ordained distinct nations and peoples for the civil good and good order of mankind. Christian fellowship is universal, across the lines of tribe, tongue, and nation, and praise God for that. But it does not dissolve or blur the natural realities and goods of various tribes, tongues, and nations.
Fellow Christians who are naturally drastically different, including in terms of natural affection, culture, language, custom, etc., do not all magically form a healthy nation if you just throw and mix them all together as citizens in one country. Do not remove what God has established for the good of nations and peoples. The Gospel is to make disciples of all the nations, not dissolve the nations and cram them all into one nation that loses all its distinctions by mass mixing/mass immigration.
And don't believe the liberal lies that this is about "hate" or bigotry. We must stop taking our worldview from the unbelieving world and the Egalitarian error.
So good, yet also so obvious to me.
Christ is the sure foundation, and thst is apprehended by faith not by pointing and saying ah, there goes Rome, or Orthodoxy, or the Oriental Orthodox, exclusively and solely the one holy, catholic, and apostolic church.
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You can weep over your sin and still love it.
You can fear its consequences while secretly longing to commit it again.
You can confess it with your lips while keeping it enthroned in your heart.
In his 1668 book The Doctrine of Repentance, the Puritan Thomas Watson identifies SIX essential ingredients of true repentance:
1. SIGHT OF SIN: You must see your own wickedness, not merely the sins of others. You must recognize what you are before a holy God.
2. SORROW FOR SIN: You must grieve not merely because your sin has brought you suffering, but because you have offended the God who made you.
3. CONFESSION OF SIN: You must stop excusing, minimizing, and concealing your transgressions. You must accuse yourself and acknowledge your guilt before God.
4. SHAME FOR SIN: You must learn to blush at what you once boasted of. What once delighted your corrupt heart must now humble you.
5. HATRED OF SIN: You must hate what you once loved. Not merely because sin threatens your happiness, reputation, or eternal safety, but because it is hateful to God.
6. TURNING FROM SIN: You must forsake your wicked ways and turn to God with your whole heart. You cannot claim to have abandoned sin while secretly reserving a place for its return.
You have not truly repented merely because you regret what sin has cost you.
The question is whether you now hate the sin you once cherished, and whether your heart and life are being turned toward God.
Repentance is not merely sorrow over sin.
It is a Spirit-wrought change of heart that produces a change of life.
Westminster Confession of Faith 20.1:
I. The liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the gospel consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the moral law;a and in their being delivered from this present evil world, bondage to Satan, and dominion of sin,bfrom the evil of afflictions, the sting of death, the victory of the grave, and everlasting damnation;c as also in their free access to God,d and their yielding obedience unto him, not out of slavish fear, but a child-like love and willing mind.e All which were common also to believers under the law;f but under the New Testament the liberty of Christians is further enlarged in their freedom from the yoke of the ceremonial law, to which the Jewish Church was subjected;g and in greater boldness of access to the throne of grace,h and in fuller communications of the free Spirit of God, than believers under the law did ordinarily partake of.i
Another absolute winner so far. He's saying everything I am thinking and saying, so of course it's great haha.
But I immediately went ballistic reading the foreword to Rock and Sand by Trenham because right off the bat this naked appeal to the Church being "without spot or blemish" is used as if that is true presently and evidently absolutely. Trenham then says as much in his book, and in one of the appendices he shows Patriarch Dositheos claiming the same. Dositheos also says because the Spirit speaks through both the Scriptures and the Church they are the same and equal authority because the Church always speaks from God, cannot err and has never erred, and is incapable of deceiving!
Well, you could only possibly begin to believe that outlandish claim if you believe that Scripture is teaching that the Church entirely and absolutely, presently, is "without spot or blemish". In other words, you have to believe not only that Christ the Head of the Church is glorified presently, but so is the Church herself.
I don't know enough about it, but I imagine this ties in with some of Orthodoxy's particularities about theosis.
Also, good job in the video so far showing how Cyprian's view of the Church is tied in with his sacramentology, and did not gain consensus and basically had to be modified by Augustine and others.
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Spot on once again by @Canonandcreed. I almost didn't bother to start watching his stuff because I am typically ashamed of what a lot of those who call themselves Protestants, Reformed, or Evangelical post out there, and a lot of it is theatrics and debates which I find overrated. But Myles here does an excellent job, is thorough, and kindly helps improve/correct the Protestant guy in this video as well.
This is probably a better treatment from the Reformed/Protestant perspective than you are going to get in most of our seminaries today. We have to admit our own issues and ignorance of our own heritage. But that doesn't mean we are wrong, we just need to recover what we have forgotten or misunderstood.
youtube.com/watch?v=9IO_r50T…
Spot on once again by @Canonandcreed. I almost didn't bother to start watching his stuff because I am typically ashamed of what a lot of those who call themselves Protestants, Reformed, or Evangelical post out there, and a lot of it is theatrics and debates which I find overrated. But Myles here does an excellent job, is thorough, and kindly helps improve/correct the Protestant guy in this video as well.
This is probably a better treatment from the Reformed/Protestant perspective than you are going to get in most of our seminaries today. We have to admit our own issues and ignorance of our own heritage. But that doesn't mean we are wrong, we just need to recover what we have forgotten or misunderstood.
youtube.com/watch?v=9IO_r50T…
The Heidelberg Catechism (a Reformed confession) states that Christ “has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil” (Q&A 1) and “has redeemed us, both soul and body, from all our sins… and has delivered us from all the power of the devil” (Q&A 34).
That's just a start, of course.
Amen.
Or, and hear me out here… we shouldn’t act like we’re smarter than everyone that came before us.
You set up a false dichotomy.
Danny claims to be “Reformed,” but listen to Jerome Zanchi (major 17th century Reformed divine) respond to this sort of errant thinking:
“14. The faithful interpretations of the devout and learned should not be condemned.
Indeed, although the Holy Scriptures are perspicuous in those things that are necessary for salvation, we nevertheless do not reject the interpretations and explications of devout men who are both learned and skillful, whether they are ancient or more recent, namely, their interpretations and explanations that are pursued on the basis of those same Holy Scriptures and insofar as the Scriptures are explained by the Scriptures and in accordance with the first foundations of faith (1 Thess. 5:21). The sum of these contained in the Apostles’ Creed as well as in the creeds of the truly ancient and holy ecumenical councils convened against prominent heretics.”—Jerome Zanchi; Confession of the Christian Religion (RHB Publishing; 2025), p. 49