Matthew 5:16 question

feeds@yuku.com (earl40) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:58:25 GMT

"In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven."

Is the "all men" ALL, or just the elect? I ask because I do not see how ALL men can give praise to a God they do not know?

Thanksgiving Proclamation

feeds@yuku.com (ndegroot) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:00:37 GMT

Here are some questions for anyone interested in responding. If you are part of a U.S. congregation and had a Thanksgiving service on Thursday, was President Obama's Thanksgiving Proclamation read during the service? What do you think of the propriety of reading a proclamation like that during a worship service? Does it make a difference if the corporate worship service was held on a weekday instead of on Sunday?

RPW

feeds@yuku.com (Perisseuo) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:40:53 GMT

How do you view the Regulative Principle of Worship (RPW)?

Restrictions on who can give the Benediction

feeds@yuku.com (Perisseuo) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:02:40 GMT

I have always heard that only an ordain person can deliver the benediction to the congregation. Yet when I went to look that up in the Book of Church Order (BCO) I could not find any mention of it. What gives?

Ft Hood Shooting - Prayer

feeds@yuku.com (5 Solas) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:37:10 GMT

Please pray for the wounded and the families of those slain.

American flag in sanctuary

feeds@yuku.com (Perisseuo) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:23:08 GMT

Is there a sensible source on the subject in placing an American flag in the sanctuary?

There is a request for us to put a flag in the sanctuary. Are there any biblical warrants in doing so or not?

Double predestination

feeds@yuku.com (docs1) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:43:12 GMT

I wish I could find the comments I saw not so long ago regarding this. The person commenting had a interesting way of speaking of it as he fit it into a larger context. I found his thoughts interesting and he had a fancy name for it and as best I can remember it may have started with a p. But he more or less defined double predestination as the belief that some are born and have no chance at all of redemption no matter how things go for them and regardless of whatever decisions they make. I...

John Frame and Michael Horton

feeds@yuku.com (ndegroot) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:21 GMT

Has anyone been following the recent dust-up between John Frame and Michael Horton? Frame posted a review of Horton's book Christless Christianity ( http://www.frame-poythres..._articles/2009Horton.htm ) and the White Horse Inn responded (

Reading and ministry

feeds@yuku.com (Perisseuo) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:25:20 GMT

In another Christian forum that I participate, frequently someone will post a thread on 'What are you reading'. And many will reply by telling everyone what they are reading. There is nothing wrong with that. But, I made a post asking the question 'why do we post on what we are reading, but hardly ever on what are we doing in ministry'. Well, one answer was they felt like it was bragging to tell others about their ministry. I'm sure pride can come...

Does Satan tempt non-believers

feeds@yuku.com (Perisseuo) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:43:42 GMT

In today's SS class, we were in James 1. James tells us that Satan is the tempter. Someone asked the question, "does Satan tempt unbelievers" What is the Reformed answer for that?

Bi-Covenental

feeds@yuku.com (Perisseuo) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:37:31 GMT

I've heard the term before, but what precisely is it, and why would someone use it instead of another better-known term?

Has anyone ever read this book?

feeds@yuku.com (docs1) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:20:21 GMT

I don't think education is so much into this type of thing any longer. At least not in high school where it may have have made the most impact because it would have provided a proper foundation for later thinking. I don't remember ever been taught along these lines. But of course it would best probably be taught from a Christian perspective. I've seen this book advertised here and there and have wondered about it. Just from the...

Info on Scot McNight

feeds@yuku.com (Perisseuo) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:41:03 GMT

My church secretary received a mass email today about the book study series by Scot McNight. A quick google tells me that he is not Reformed, but I did see where his book received some kind of recognition from Christianity Today.

Who is the guy?

Unfashionable

feeds@yuku.com (deins) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:18:10 GMT

Any thoughts on this book?

http://www.amazon.com/Unfashionable-Making-Difference-World-Different/dp/1601420854

http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/The_White_Horse_Inn/archives.asp?bcd=2009-9-6

Jehovah's Witnesses

feeds@yuku.com (LAKing) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:06:06 GMT

I have just finished a lengthy, rather heated (their heat not mine) conversation with another pair of Jehovah's Witnesses. It's seems that they are coming by my door fairly often now and I try to treat them with courtesy and love (that is if I forget to look out the peephole first). They are nice people and gentle, so please do not construe this as attack. A group came by yesterday and they merely shoved a Watchtower into my hand and left with a smile and no conversation. But today...

Question regarding John MacArthur

feeds@yuku.com (docs1) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:36:25 GMT

I've listened to some of Dr. Kim Riddlebarger's tapes lately and took a look at his blog. In so doing I became aware to a greater degree of John MacArthur's statement not so long ago "why every self-respecting Calvinist is a pre-millennialist." But in reading about that I found out that John MacArtur, although well known as a 5 point Calvinist if I'm correct, believes in a pre-tribulation rapture of the church. I'm suprised because I'm not used to associating...

Did Cornelius have faith in God before he met Peter?

feeds@yuku.com (earl40) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:07:12 GMT

Glory - a new trend

feeds@yuku.com (Perisseuo) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:26:35 GMT

It's funny how a person's church training makes some concepts terminology foreign. I have always thought of glory as belonging to God. Ultimately it does, but last Sunday my Pastor's sermon was on our lost glory. I heard the concept expressed before but not necessarily with using the term glory.

Well, I am now seeing the word, "glory", pop up more and more these days. Is it a new trend, or returning to something old?

In Pipers "Are There Two Wills in God?"

feeds@yuku.com (earl40) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:17:19 GMT

Correct me if I am wrong here did John Piper suggest that God had 1 will in salvation?

"Therefore I affirm with John 3:16 and 1 Timothy 2:4 that God loves the world with a deep compassion that...

Hyper-calvinism

feeds@yuku.com (Perisseuo) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:25:26 GMT

What would you say are some of the erroneous positions taken by Hyper-calvinism?

I think think of:

Denying common grace
Faulty view of man's responsibility

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