God’s attribute: God is Simple Part 1

This is a series on the attributes of God.

 

Selected Scriptures

Purpose: For this session we will look at the definition and summary of Biblical reasons to believe in this doctrine.

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God’s attribute: The Aseity of God

This is a new series we are starting on the attributes of God.

 

Selected Scriptures

Purpose: In this session we will look at four points concerning the Aseity of God so that we know and live in the reality of the Aseity of God.

1. Definition of Aseity
2. Scriptural Proofs of the Aseity of God
3. Examples of how the Aseity of God relate to other areas of theology
4. What are the Implications from this lesson?

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God’s attribute: God is unique

This is a new series we are starting on the attributes of God.

Selected Scriptures

Purpose: this session we looked at five truths concerning the truth that God is unique so that we would worship and cultivate a loving awe of God.

1. General statement that God is unique
2. God is different than humans
3. There is Only One God
4. God is different than false gods
5. Three ways God can be distinct

 

Note: Some Words before we begin this study.

• Sometimes in Systematic Theology and Apologetics writing this is called the Creator/Creature distinction
• By unique I mean that God is unlike us or anything other creatures and creation.
• Also when we talk about God’s incommunicable attributes we are talking about attributes that He alone possess, which makes God unique of all beings.

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Review: Parenting First Aid

 

Marty Machowski.  Parenting First Aid.  Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, September 24, 2018. 240 pp.

5 out of 5

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Are you a parent look for a Bible devotional concerning applications with parenting or maybe you are not a parent but you are looking for a devotional to give as a gift to a friend who is a Christian parent?  If this describes you I recommend this book.  I got this book since I know the publisher New Growth Press typically publish biblical and practical Christian living resources and this book definitely didn’t disappoint and is like the other titles they have: edifying, biblical and saturated with practical applications.  The author himself acknowledge how he himself is weak and really need God’s help for parenting through God’s Word and hence the title of this book as “Parenting First Aid.”  I appreciated the humility and vulnerability while reminding the readers to focus on God and being empowered by the Word of God and the Gospel.

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Review: Reprobation: from Augustine to the Synod of Dort

 

Peter Sammons. Reprobation: from Augustine to the Synod of Dort: The Historical Development of the Reformed Doctrine of Reprobation.  Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, January 20, 2020. 154 pp.

3 out of 5

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Do you know what the doctrine of reprobation is?  This doctrine is often misunderstood and/or not always articulated well; furthermore at times people might not understand how the church have understood and worked through this issue in church history.  Concerning the historical theology of the doctrine of reprobation author Peter Sammons makes a contribution with his survey of this doctrine from the early church age through the Middle Ages and into the Reformation era.

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Omniscience of God: 4 Part Series

God’s Omniscience is the attribute of God being all-knowing.  Sadly there are even some quarters of “Christianity” that attack this attribute of God.

Here’s a four part series on God’s Omniscience.

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