God commands that certain elements be part of a worship service. God commands that these certain elements in a worship service be done in a certain way. God also commands that we conduct ourselves with a certain decorum when it comes to participation in this kind of worship. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_16.mp3
Now that we understand what elements God wants in a worship service, we need to think about when He wants us to do each of them. A good Reformed liturgy gives careful thought to the order of the elements in a worship service. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_15.mp3
If the second commandment teaches the regulative principle, we have to then ask: “What exactly does the Bible say we should do in New Covenant worship”? Without a New Testament book of Leviticus, are we left in the dark? http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_14.mp3
Behind and implied by the second commandment is this “regulative principle of worship,” which is taught all throughout the Holy Scriptures. Listen to see how and where. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_13.mp3
Though the “regulative principle of worship” may be an odd or unfamiliar phrase, we hope you’ll come to undertsand and accept it as a good label for the second commandment’s authoritative import regarding worship. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_12.mp3
The Jesus statues and crucifixes of the Roman Catholics, and the Jesus pictures in children’s Bibles of the Evangelicals, are a testimony to our thinking we are wiser than God. We are trying to re-make Jesus in our own image in gross violation of the second commandment. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_11.mp3
The first commandment forbids worship of any false god, and now the second commandment forbids any false worship of the true God. This distinction lays the foundation for the practical application of the second commandment in our lives. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_10.mp3
At last, the commandments. God requires in the first commandment not only that He be exclusively acknowledged, but also that we give all of our very selves to Him alone. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_9.mp3
So what was engraved on each of the two tablets that God gave to Moses? How they answered that question in Sunday School might have distracted you from some important ways to understand and apply the ten commandments properly. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_8.mp3
So how should you thank God for saving your body and soul? The right way is to obey His holy laws. The wrong way is to exert yourself in obedience to easier substitutes. As we come closer to the Ten Commandments themselves, be prepared, in light of the gospel, to obey them no matter how difficult the task. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_7.mp3
The second “table” of the Ten Commandments is an objective standard for civil order and righteousness. Its principles are reflected among every people group, even among those who deny that the Ten Commandments are from God. Any society in gross violation of the second table is inevitably a cesspool of immorality. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_6.mp3
Last time we talked about the law thrashing unbelievers and driving them to see their need for Jesus Christ. This time we talk about how the law ought to do the same thing for Christians. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_5.mp3
The first way to apply the Ten Commandments to your life is to let them show you, one by one, how you have failed to keep them. This uncomfortable exercise is necessary for you to see your need for Jesus Christ and appreciate the magnitude of what He has done. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_4.mp3
New Covenant Christians must understand the Ten Commandments and apply them to their lives. Concerning both internal and external purity, the Ten Commandments encompass all areas of life, and command the opposite of what they forbid. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_3.mp3
Knowing which commands God wants you to follow is not as easy as just flipping open the Bible and doing the first thing you read. God always gives His commands (laws) to people in the context of different covenants. If you get this, you’ll be ready to apply any of His laws in the Bible to your life in the right way, and not in some freakish, base way. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_2.mp3...
The Ten Commandments are big news. Someone is always complaining they are being ignored or abused. Churches fight over whether they even matter today. But you can’t begin to understand and apply the Ten Commandments unless you know and believe the law/gospel contrast. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Ten_Commandments_1.mp3
Well, folks, this is the swan song to this series and our review of this book. Frankly, we’re tired of reading it. In this final show, we discuss how offensive it is that Arminians are dissatisfied with God’s loving disposition, even to the reprobate. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS_Bad_Reasons_8.mp3
Everyone is in trouble. Everyone is guilty. Everyone needs to hear what can be done about the mess we are in. We are trying to convince you that you need to hear us out about the basic questions of life. http://media.urclearning.org/audio/SS_3Questions.mp3
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Bad_Reasons_Why_You_Are_Not_A_Calvinist_7.mp3 (26:54) Part two of our response to the philosophical analysis section seeks to apply the famous Genesis 50 text to Walls’ range of options for understanding the nature of human freedom and God’s control. Our conclusion, again, is that the biblical data cannot support anything but the idea that God ordains and directs the free actions of His creatures....
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Bad_Reasons_Why_You_Are_Not_A_Calvinist_6.mp3 (33:20) Otherwise helpful, descriptive philosophical categories regarding the nature of human freedom must not become the ultimate boundaries of how we may systematize and confess the Bible’s teaching about the extent of God’s control and its relationship to human responsibility.
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Bad_Reasons_Why_You_Are_Not_A_Calvinist_5.mp3 (13:42) That election is “in Christ” does not in any way overthrow the idea that the Father’s election of His people is sovereign, personal, fixed, definite, and individual.
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Bad_Reasons_Why_You_Are_Not_A_Calvinist_4.mp3 (16:13) So John chapter six is about Christ’s unity with the Father. Yes, but that does not set aside His clear statements regarding the way in which the Father and the Son save their elect people. The Father drags His previously unwilling people straight to His Son, Who never loses them.
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Bad_Reasons_Why_You_Are_Not_A_Calvinist_3.mp3 (18:49) If you were wondering how an educated Arminian would read Romans chapter nine in a way contrary to how we have, here’s your answer (at least the first part of it). The authors make spotty references to this or that phrase in this or that verse and essentially ignore the immediate context of Paul’s argument....
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/ss_Bad_Reasons_Why_You_Are_Not_A_Calvinist_2.mp3 (28:50) Everyone agrees that the words “predestination” and “election” are in the Bible. Everyone also agrees that Romans 9-11 is a central passage in understanding what those words mean. Here, we work verse-by-verse through Romans 9:1-24, in order to show that the straightforward reading of this text indisputably teaches what we today call “Calvinism.”...
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/ss_Bad_Reasons_Why_You_Are_Not_A_Calvinist_1.mp3 (37:48) We present a new series discussing the Calvinism/Arminianism debate by reviewing the new book titled “Why I Am Not A Calvinist.” Today, we alert the discerning reader to some less than helpful analyses and introductions to the topic by the book’s authors.
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/SS-Every_Member_Ministry_Remix.mp3 (20:47) Note: This showâ€s content was re-edited and replaces the original posted in July 2006. One sacred cow of many church growth gurus, including those of the “Presbyterian” or “Reformed” ilk, is the idea that every member of the church should be involved in “ministry.” Ministry, however, is committed by Christ in His Word only to the officers of His church. When we assign the duties of the officers to every member, we...
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/sns_atheism-8.mp3 (38:31) Dawkins’ worldview lacks foundation for his outlandish claim that instructing children in the Christian faith is worse than sexually molesting them. His telling extreme stories of religious abuse is a cheap tactic to try and give credibility to this obviously ridiculous claim, and to hide its sinister implications.
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/Atheism-7_Impossibility_of_Contrary.mp3 Dawkins’ critique of typical God-proofs simply avoids the main one: the transcendental argument for the existence of God. Last time , we introduced this argument as an answer to the “ultimate Boeing 747 gambit”; this week, we present the transcendental argument to bolster the other more traditional proofs which Dawkins attempts to refute....
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/Atheism_6.mp3 (24:56) Note: This show’s content was re-edited and replaces the original. Dawkins’ central argument against God’s existence–the “ultimate Boeing 747 gambit”–fails for at least two reasons. First, the gambit needs Darwinian evolution by natural selection to be true in spite of its glaring logical and factual flaws. Second, the gambit’s conclusions cannot account for the principles it used to draw its conclusions....
http://www.start.urclearning.org/audio/Atheism_5.mp3 As if his simplistic attack against the Scripture’s moral fabric wasn’t enough, Dawkins marches forward to assault the Bible’s factual credibility. But evidence, common sense, and the modern scholarly consensus (even of the Bible’s detractors) are major obstacles to the credibility of his argument.
