Paedocommunion Mashed Potatoes & the CREC
IntroductionWell, there’s been a little bruhaha on the interwebs concerning my denomination, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches and our common practice of paedocommunion – welcoming young, baptized children to the Lord’s Supper. The impetus for this I think is two fold, and they are actually related. The first reason is simply the fact that
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Three Cheers for Purity Culture
IntroductionOne of our increasingly pagan culture’s new favorite punching bags is so-called “purity culture.” Apparently some folks believe that before Joshua Harris published his book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” that evangelicals believed in impurity. And weren’t those the golden days of yore? But tthe thing to keep front and center is simply the point that
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What Grace Looks Like
Acts 15:13-35 IntroductionThe decision of the Jerusalem Council illustrates a principle that Christians have always struggled with: grace has a backbone. True grace really is radically free, and precisely because it is so free, it is potent and transformative. And this principle aims in two directions in particular: it aims outward toward the world and
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Covenant Nations & Christian Ones
IntroductionAn old family friend on social media recently objected to the notion of America being a Christian nation. While he claimed it was historically inaccurate, his primary objection was that a nation can’t simply choose to be God’s covenant people. God decides who His covenant people are. God chose Israel in the Old Covenant, and
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