Genesis 17:7-14 (ESV) 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the…
The Adamic Covenant and the Shape of Human Life God placed Adam into a covenant world with a calling to serve as priest, king, and son. Adam was commissioned to worship God, guard what was good, exercise dominion, and extend God’s righteous order throughout the earth. Adam stood as the covenant head of humanity, representing…
Covenant as Communion: One Covenant from the Triune God At the heart of our theology is covenant. A covenant is an oath-bound relationship, but more deeply, covenant is communion—shared life with God. God is eternally Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, existing in perfect love and fellowship. Creation and redemption flow out of this eternal love.…
Introduction I wonder what you have been thinking as we’ve been working through this series on covenant theology and the sacraments. I hope you haven’t gotten the wrong idea. You don’t have to be reformed or agree with me on paedobaptism to be a Christian or a member of this church. In that sense, it…
Please forgive the poor audio quality… Genesis 17:1-14 (ESV) 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, 2 that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” 3 Then Abram fell on his face.…
Sphere Sovereignty “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine” (Abraham Kuyper)! “We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5)… “Satan…
Genesis 6:18 (ESV) But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
Please forgive the poor audio quality… Genesis 6-9 (ESV) 6:1 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, “My…
Genesis 1:26-31, 2:1-10, 15-25, 3:1-24 (ESV) 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the…