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Reformed Reader

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A Christian resource for book reviews, book recommendations, and quotes from a Reformation perspective. Post tenebras lux. (Editor: Pastor Shane Lems)

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Regeneration: A Work of God and God Alone - (Shedd) reformedreader.wordpress.com…
We Did Not Give Ourselves New Life: Passive in Regeneration

We Did Not Give Ourselves New Life: Passive in Regeneration

In Ephesians 2:5 and Colossians 2:13, Paul makes it clear that God, and God alone, gives new life to a sinful person. Regeneration is the work of the Holy Spirit, not the work of man. When a person…

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Does Regeneration Instantly Make Us Perfect? (Vos) - reformedreader.wordpress.com…
Does Regeneration Instantly Make Us Perfect?

Does Regeneration Instantly Make Us Perfect?

In many places the Bible talks about the great fact that God, by his Holy Spirit, graciously and sovereignly changes people’s hearts, renews their wills, and enlightens their minds so they wi…

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Paul’s Thought Pattern in Ephesians 2:1-10

Paul’s Thought Pattern in Ephesians 2:1-10

Sinclair Ferguson’s book, The Holy Spirit, is a great resource in many ways. Today I was reading his section about regeneration, and I found where Ferguson summarizes Paul’s thought pat…

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Regeneration: God's Work - reformedreader.wordpress.com… @AbrahamKuyper
Regeneration: God’s Work

Regeneration: God’s Work

Once you see the depravity and spiritual deadness of a person apart from God, you begin to see more and more how regeneration is a work of God and God alone. In other words, a person who is dead in…

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"All men are conceived in sin, and are by nature children of wrath, incapable of saving good, prone to evil, dead in sin, and in bondage thereto..." Canons of Dort, III/IV.3 #depravity
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Faith Is Not a Talent, Special Power, or Skill - reformedreader.wordpress.com…
Faith Is Not a Talent, Special Power, or Skill

Faith Is Not a Talent, Special Power, or Skill

I sometimes struggle with overthinking things. In the past few years I’ve told myself, “Don’t overthink it, just do it or don’t do it.” I’m getting better in thi…

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"There is a pleasure in being in a ship beaten about by a storm, when we are sure that it will not founder. The persecutions which harass the Church are of this nature." Blaise Pascal
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"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous." Blaise Pascal
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"The law imposed what it did not give. Grace gives what it imposes." Blaise Pascal
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"It is in vain, O men, that you seek within yourselves the remedy for your ills." Blaise Pascal
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Easily Offended? Overly Sensitive to Criticism? A Book For You - reformedreader.wordpress.com… #unoffendable
Easily Offended? Overly Sensitive to Criticism? Here’s A Book For You…

Easily Offended? Overly Sensitive to Criticism? Here’s A Book For You…

I picked this book up a few months ago based on the title and topic: Unoffendable by Brandt Hansen. The book is about anger, frustration, and being too easily offended. In this book, Hansen explain…

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Fellowship with God: from God, for God, with God - reformedreader.wordpress.com…
Created for Fellowship: from God, for God, and with God

Created for Fellowship: from God, for God, and with God

I was recently moving some books around when I found this in a cupboard: Confronted by Grace: Meditations of a Theologian by John Webster. I picked it up a few years ago and forgot about it. I star…

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The Free Offer of the Gospel and Reformed Theology - reformedreader.wordpress.com… #evangelism
The Free Offer of the Gospel and Reformed Theology

The Free Offer of the Gospel and Reformed Theology

Historically, Reformed theology teaches that it is right and proper to call sinners to faith in Christ, sincerely promising that if they turn from sin and trust in him, they will be saved. It’…

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The Repentance of a Christian (Warfield) reformedreader.wordpress.com… @BBWarfield_
The Repentance of a Christian (Warfield)

The Repentance of a Christian (Warfield)

(The following post was originally published in May 2018) Here’s a great snippet of a great sermon by B. B. Warfield on Psalm 51: Thus we perceive that in its conception of God, of sin, of salvatio…

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Why Don't Reformed/Presbyterian Churches Allow Young Kids and Infants to take Communion? reformedreader.wordpress.com…
Why Don’t Reformed Churches Allow Young Children and Infants to Partake of the Lord’s Supper?

Why Don’t Reformed Churches Allow Young Children and Infants to Partake of the Lord’s Supper?

Confessional Reformed and Presbyterian churches do not allow young children and infants to partake of Holy Communion. Some might ask, “Why not?” Why can’t young children and infan…

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Preaching Is Not Podcasting: The Preacher's Task Summarized from Scripture - reformedreader.wordpress.com…

The Preacher’s Task Summarized from Scripture (Or: Preaching Is Not Podcasting)

I’m sure many of you have heard sermons that were not simple and straightforward expositions of Scripture focused on Christ. Some preachers today think preaching is like podcasting, so their …

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Predestination: The Pride Killer (Zanchi) reformedreader.wordpress.com… @Pjobanion
Predestination: The Pride Killer

Predestination: The Pride Killer

Christians who begin to understand the Bible’s teaching about predestination should be humbled by this truth. It’s inconsistent Christianity to believe in predestination and walk around…

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The Inner Logic of Pelagianism - reformedreader.wordpress.com…
The Inner Logic of Pelagianism

The Inner Logic of Pelagianism

I’m enjoying various articles in Ruined Sinners to Reclaim: Sin and Depravity in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective. One chapter worth reading is Bradley Green’…

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Predestination: The Greatest Comfort to Believers - reformedreader.wordpress.com…
Predestination: The Greatest Comfort to Believers

Predestination: The Greatest Comfort to Believers

The first chapter of Ephesians is one of those texts in Scripture that Christians cannot read enough. It is full of comforting truth about God’s redeeming love, the work of Christ, and the re…

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The School of Sanctified Affliction: The Lord Disciplines the Ones He Loves - reformedreader.wordpress.com… @OctaviuWinslow
The School of Sanctified Affliction

The School of Sanctified Affliction

Psalm 94:12 says, “Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Lord, and whom you teach from your Law” [NASB 2020]. It might sound odd that being disciplined by the Lord is a blessing. Disc…

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