When reading with the Ten Commandments, the first commandment, “You shall have no other gods before me,” seems pretty straight forward. It is very easy to interpret, easy to understand, and yet also very easy to break. One could venture to say that the first commandment is the most broken commandment in the everyday life [...]
Archive for March, 2010
How does the Law relate with Apostasy?
Posted: March 31, 2010 by Michael Dewalt in The Law and Apostasy0
The regenerate and unregenerate person both have a hard time understanding how Law and love go hand-in-hand. At times, Christians want to make up their own model of what the everyday Christian looks like. They come up with ideas, slogans, and programs, sometimes even misrepresenting Scripture in order to get their own point across. People [...]
The nature of mankind hates rules, it cannot stand Law[1], regulations, or limits, and wherever the line is drawn, the human flesh always wants to cross it. This is most easily seen from creation in Adam and Eve. In Genesis 2:17 God commands, “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you [...]
Deuteronomy 27:9-10 states: “Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God. You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.” If only [...]
Welcome to a Reformed Church, by Danny Hyde
Posted: March 24, 2010 by Michael Dewalt in Danny Hyde, Reformation TrustBook: Rev. Daniel Hyde, Welcome to a Reformed Church: A Guide for Pilgrims. (Reformation Trust: Orlando FL, 2010). Essentials: Rev. Daniel R. Hyde is senior minister of the Oceanside United Reformed Church in Oceanside, California. He is the author of a number of different books such as; Jesus Loves the Little Children, What to Expect [...]
Depressed about America and Healthcare?
Posted: March 23, 2010 by Michael Dewalt in Just My ThoughtsI have no idea how you can be when Ephesians 1: 11-23 reads, In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of [...]
Does the Spirit only work in the PR Denomination?
Posted: March 22, 2010 by Michael Dewalt in Just for FunDid You Know that the Spirit of God is Only Working in one Denomination of the Reformed faith? Either did I! However this past weekend I came across a rather unique book description in a publication catalog by the Reformed Free Publishing Association. The Book: Always Reforming: Continuation of the Sixteenth-Century Reformation, part of the Protestant [...]
Can you Chew Tobacco and Preach the Bible at the Same Time?
Posted: March 15, 2010 by Michael Dewalt in Just for Fun, Preaching/SpeakingWell Italian preachers did during the beginning of the 20th-century! This is my kind of preaching… In Paul Bull’s Lectures on Preaching and Sermon Construction (Chapter 7, Section 5, Point 5) titled “Make a Right Use of Your Voice” he states, “In normal sermons Italian preachers, arrived at the end of their first point, sit [...]
An interview with Danny Hyde about his new book published by Reformation Trust, Welcome to a Reformed Church. Rev. Daniel R. Hyde has been the pastor of the Oceanside United Reformed Church in Carlsbad/Oceanside, California, since it was planted in 2000. He is the author of seven books (see his bibliography here). He has a M.Div. [...]
I Just Received my copy of By Grace Alone
Posted: March 10, 2010 by Michael Dewalt in Reformation Trust, Sinclair B. FergusonFrom RT, “Are you truly amazed by God’s grace? Or have you grown accustomed to it? Yes, we sing of God’s “Amazing Grace,” but do you truly understand what you as a Christian have experienced in receiving the grace of God? Or do you take divine grace for granted? In By Grace Alone: How the Grace of [...]
