“But if the watchman see the sword come,
and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and
take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his
blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]
“For we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
[Ephesians 6:12]
Presbyterians Week Headlines
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A 4 July 2017 Vatican Radio
article titled “Catholic
and Reformed Churches Mark Ecumenical "Milestone"” reports that
on 5 July 2017 in Wittenburg, Germany, the World Communion of Reformed Churches
(WCRC) signed onto the Joint
Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, the 1999 Catholic-Lutheran
agreement on how Christians might be worthy of salvation in the eyes of God.
WCRC represents 80 million
members of Congregational, Presbyterian, Reformed, United, Uniting, and
Waldensian churches.
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As a Christian physician, I
have not only marveled at the spiritual ramifications of Christ’s death, but
also the physical and physiological aspects. To present this, I have compiled a
succinct overview of Jesus’ death from a physical and medical perspective that
I hope both lay and medical people can appreciate and understand. — Mark A.
Marinella, M.D., F.A.C.P.
The most forthright and
engaging presentation of the Biblical view of animals in print. J. Y. Jones,
long an accomplished physician, scholar, writer, outdoorsman, hunter, and man
of God, is uniquely qualified to offer his cutting-edge treatment of this controversial
topic. Don’t let the down-to-earth, diverting and friendly style fool you. Just
as America’s wise Founding Fathers discovered latent tyranny in a penny tea
tax, Dr. Jones powerfully exposes the radical political agenda of the
contemporary animal rights movement. With careful argument, he reveals the
animal rights movement as a potentially significant menace to liberty and even
to Christianity itself. Adding Dr. Jones’s able apologetic for the Christian
faith in reasoned and transparently personal terms, one should prepare for a
rich, compelling, and enjoyable read.
-- Confrontational
Politics: How to Effectively Practice The Politics of Principle - H. L.
Richardson
In this era of ever-growing,
more distant, unresponsive government—and politicians of both parties who do
not walk their talk—retired California state senator H. L. (Bill) Richardson’s
book is a strong tonic.
He warns, however, his words
are not for the faint of heart: as Finley Peter Dunne once said, “Politics
ain’t beanbag.”
He spells out in a series of
lessons how his often hard-pressed conservative minority was able to win
victory after victory on issues like the death penalty, gun control, and
removing liberal judges. “The central theme of this book is the methodology
both sides use. Being ‘right’ is not enough,” he cautions.
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Westinghouse Street, Suite E, Ventura,
California 93003,
805-642-2070, Fax: 805-642-1862, Contact Page
Confessing the Faith Study
Guide is a resource that aims to make group study easy. The questions stick
closely to the text of Chad Van Dixhoorn’s Confessing the Faith and follow the
chapter subheadings that you will find there. Some questions cover essential
doctrines; others explore scriptural passages; still others promote personal
application. Each chapter ends with a consideration for prayer.
In Particular Redemption,
taking up these words of Titus 2:14, John Hurrion expounds the doctrine of
redemption, focusing attention especially on the end and design, extent and
importance of the death of Christ. There is a peculiar importance attached to a
man’s last words. That is especially true of John Hurrion. As his life was
ebbing away, his mind was flooded with thoughts about his Saviour, Jesus
Christ, as he prepared the four addresses found in this book for the press.
‘The delight he took in his subject’, his editor wrote, ‘carried him above his
great pain and weakness’, and in dying he confessed: ‘The death of Christ being
the fountain of our life, there is nothing more necessary, pleasant, or useful
to the Christian, than a right apprehension and remembrance of it.’
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