Category: Sermons
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Regulated Worship
Series: What It Means To Be Reformed Presbyterian Acts 2:42 From the outset of the Reformation, Calvin wrote that the first concern of the Reformed church was worship. One hundred years later, in the 1640’s, the Westminster Assembly formulated a Directory for Public Worship which affirmed the regulative principle and its application in a series of…
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Presbyterian Church Government, part 2: Session and Presbytery
Series: What It Means To Be Reformed Presbyterian 1 Timothy 4:14 Presbyterian church government is rule in the church by elders. The elders are organized in courts (the session, the presbytery and the Synod) to which is committed the power of governing the church and of ordaining officers. This power is moral and spiritual, and subject…
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Presbyterian Church Government, part 1
Series: What It Means To Be Reformed Presbyterian Ephesians 4:10-12 The Solemn League and Covenant entered into and signed by both England and Scotland in 1643 called for a specific kind of government which was Biblical, according to the best reformed churches on the continent, and most likely to secure the peace of the church. Such…
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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…