Category: Reformed Standards
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Uniformity in Doctrine
Series: What It Means To Be Reformed Presbyterian When Presbyterians were united in the middle of the 17th century in Scotland, England, and Ireland, they took a covenant to promote the Reformation in these three kingdoms. They swore to uphold uniformity of religion according to their place and station in life. A part of that covenanted…
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Public Covenanting
Series: What It Means To Be Reformed Presbyterian 2 Chronicles 15:1-15 Historian David H. Fleming notes well that Scotland is pre-eminently the land of the Covenant. Clearly, the 16th century Reformation in Scotland led by John Knox galvanized around public covenants taken by nobility and commoners alike. The rationale for such public, civil covenants taken in…
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Mediatorial Kingship of Jesus Christ
Series: What It Means to Be Reformed Presbyterian Isaiah 55:4-5 One of the distinguishing doctrines of the Reformed Presbyterian Church is the doctrine of the mediatorial kingship of Jesus Christ. In its most basic form, this doctrine teaches that Jesus Christ, as mediator and God-man, is King of the nations. Isaiah 55:4-5 speaks of this…