How to better understand the Church

How to better understand the Church

Below are some more terms to help you better understand the Church: Methodist—During the 1700’s, John Wesley and George Whitefield preached the need for the new birth (and what some considered a new “method” of Christianity). Their followers were ejected from the...
Wretched Man That I Am!

Wretched Man That I Am!

Wretched Man That I Am! from Paul Tripp Ministries “So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making...
Terms to help understand the Church

Terms to help understand the Church

Terms to help you understand the Church: Here are some more terms to help you understand the Church: Confessional—To distinguish themselves from the Roman Catholic Church, many of the churches of the Reformation composed “confessions”, or statements of faith, to...
Astronauts and Archaeologists

Astronauts and Archaeologists

Astronauts and Archaeologists from Paul Tripp Ministries The older you get, the more you move from being an astronaut to an archaeologist. When you’re young, you excitedly launch to worlds unknown. You have all the significant decisions of life before you. It’s a time...
Reformed?

Reformed?

Are you familiar with the following terms? Reformed—Originally this referred to the church in Switzerland, where Ulrich Zwingli was “reforming” the church according to Scripture. It later came to refer to all those who hold to the principles of the Reformation—that...