Whether you’re a member of a Reformed Baptist church, a Presbyterian, Dutch Reformed, or Congregationalist wrestling with questions about baptism, or someone exploring this topic for the first time—this series is for you. Between November 2024 and January 2025, Pastor Cameron Porter led Free Grace Baptist Church through a comprehensive study on baptism from Chapters…
“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.” – Romans 3:28 Our Saturday morning theology study will focus on James Buchanan’s important book “The Doctrine of Justification.” This doctrine – how God declares sinners righteous – is central to our faith as Protestant Reformed Christians. In fact,…
At the end of spring 2024, we finished studying “The Holy Spirit: An Introduction” by Fred Sanders. We are moving on to study “The Trinity: An Introduction” by Scott R. Swain. Its published by Crossway and available on Amazon. Contact our teaching pastor for more information about the study, and for an invite to the Zoom…
We have finished studying “The Person of Christ: An Introduction” by Stephen Wellum and are moving on to study “The Holy Spirit: An Introduction” by Fred Sanders. The book is available on Amazon.ca. Contact our teaching pastor for more information about the study, and for an invite to the Zoom meeting if you can’t make it…
We are restarting our Saturday morning class at 6:30 am on October 21, 2023. Our theology study group meets every other Saturday morning at 6:30am, generally on the opposite weekend of the Sunday morning 1689 London Baptist Confession Study. Typically we have around 10-20 people meeting in the fellowship hall, plus 5-10 from around North…
In our Saturday morning theology class, we have completed our studies in The Mystery of Christ, His Covenant, and His Kingdom by Dr. Samuel D. Renihan within our theology class held every second Saturday morning at 6:30. Dr. Renihan begins chapter 14 of his book with the following statement about the thematic connection between Genesis…
The doctrine of God’s decree is a doctrine, as it comprehends divine sovereignty and the “high mystery of predestination” and “eternal election” (2LCF 3.7), that is to rouse humility on the part of the Christian, affording him “matter of praise, reverence, and admiration of God” (2LCF 3.7). In confessing “God’s decree” we are asserting, simply,…
In part one of this two-part article, based upon the call of Scripture to glory in Him, we set out to make some observations regarding a proper knowledge of our triune God. Using paragraph 3 of Chapter 2 of our Confession we noted: first, that confessing the Trinity does not entail a confession of Tritheism;…
In John 17 the Son of God, according to his assumed humanity, lifts “up his eyes to heaven” and prays to the Father (v.1). Acknowledging the purpose of his incarnational mission as the champion of God’s elect (v.2), Christ proclaims in prayer that eternal life consists in the knowledge of God and in the knowledge…
When we consider distinctive Christian doctrines like the Trinity and justification by faith alone, the empty tomb is a similarly central truth that impacts both doctrine and practice. As we ponder these things during corporate worship and private devotions, we should marvel at the miracle of the resurrection. The following article will offer several reasons…