Look forward in faith.

Look forward in faith. Believe that God has a great future for you. Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Walk with him in holiness of life. Encourage one another to keep on going, believing in the Lord, trusting in his Word and walking with him day by day. May God help each of …

Turn To The Lord.

Turn to the Lord, believe in him, listen to him, grow in him - these are the things he wants us to do.

Confessing our Faith

Statement of Christian Faith - by the Church of Scotland We believe in one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit God is love. We praise God the Father: who created the universe and keeps it in being. He has made us His sons and daughters to share his joy, living together in justice and peace, …

The Strengthening Of Our Faith

In the New Testament, we read much about Peter, We read about him in the Gospels. We read about him in the Acts of the Apostles. His name speaks of both failure and triumph. Peter was a man who denied his Lord. He was a man who won thousands of people for his Lord. In …

Faith, Holiness, Worship And Witness

"Come to him ... be yourselves built into a spiritual house" (1 Peter 2:4-5). This speaks to us of personal conversion and life in fellowship with God's people. The life of holiness, to which we are called, is to be lived in fellowship with God's people. We are to encourage one another to live a …

Don’t forget about the past, but don’t live in the past.

We give thanks for what God has done, but we can't remain in the past. The past has gone. We must put it behind us. We must press on into God's future Let us pray for what God will do. Looking back to the past will help us - only if it inspires us to …

Faith in Scripture as God’s Word

Berkouwer criticizes "an incorrect conception of theology, a conception of theology, a conception which considers it possible to discuss Holy Scripture apart from a personal relationship of belief in it, as though that alone would constitute true 'objectivity'." (Holy Scripture, pp. 9-10). He holds that those who view Scripture in this way "wrongly ... see …

Faith and Sanctification

Except for one reference to A Half Century of Theology, all of the quotations in this post are from Faith and Sanctification.Berkouwer approaches social concern from a Biblical and Reformed perspective. In Ephesians 2:8-10, the emphases ‘by grace’ and ‘through faith’ lead directly on to the emphasis ‘for good works’. Berkouwer underscores this connection between …

Berkouwer’s theology of the relationship between grace and faith

The more I thought of my own work on Berkouwer, the more I came to feel that the key Biblical text is Ephesians 2:8 - "By grace you have been saved through faith". The emphasis is on the absolute necessity of both grace and faith. It is not 'by grace you have been saved without …

Our Faith is rooted in the Truth of the Gospel.

Berkouwer emphasizes both objectivity and subjectivity. He does this by emphasizing that faith’s subjective certainty is rooted in the truth of the Gospel. “Faith involves a certain subjectivity, … a subjectivity which has meaning only as it is bound to the gospel.” (Faith and Justification, p. 30). “the church’s … certainty is bound to certain …