Category: Church history

• The Athanasian Creed from Scripture, Lines 3-4

  

  In 2024, The Sermonator is going line-by-line through the Athanasian Creed, with Scripture. This post explains lines 3-4, and concludes by explaining why the Trinity is essential for our salvation, and the Christian life.

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  January 6, 2024

  Athanasian Creed, Church history, Creeds, doctrine of God, Practical Theology, Systematic Theology, the Trinity

  athanasius, the Trinity

• The Athanasian Creed, from Scripture: Introduction and Lines 1-2

  

  In 2024, The Sermonator will be going line-by-line through the Athanasian Creed, with Scripture. This post explains why we’re doing this; and explains lines 1-2 of the Creed.

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  January 5, 2024

  apostasy, Athanasian Creed, Christology, Creeds, doctrine of God, ecclesiology, Practical Theology, the Trinity

  Athanasian Creed with Scripture

• “I am my Beloved’s, and He is mine”: Christ and the Church in the Song of Solomon [sermon 6-18-23]

  

  In recent years there’s been a tendency to read Song of Solomon as erotic poetry for Christians. But for most of Christian history, it was read as an allegory of Christ’s love for His Bride, the Church. What do we gain when we return to the traditional way of reading the Song of Solomon? This…

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  July 6, 2023

  Bible study, Biblical Interpretation, Christ-Centered Exegesis, Church history, discipleship, ecclesiology, Practical Theology, Sermons, Systematic Theology

  Christ in the Old Testament, Christ in the Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon, spiritual formation, the Church in the Song of Solomon

• If I could erase any man’s legacy from American Christianity, it would be Charles G. Finney

  

  The one where I call upon Christians and churches to renounce Charles Finney’s “new measures” and gratefully return to the “old measures” God gave us in the Bible.

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  March 25, 2023

  Church history, false converts, moralism, Practical Theology

  Charles G. Finney