reformed perspectives

Practical Theology


A.A. Hodge   A.A. Hodge (1823-1886), Professor in Systematic Theology at Princeton Seminary from 1877 until his death in 1886.

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• A Comparison of Systems


Adam Shields   Adam Shields

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• Jeremy and I


Alejandro Moreno Morrison   Alejandro Moreno Morrison

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• The Role and Use of Evidence in Reformed Presuppositional Apologetics, part 1

• The Role and Use of Evidence in Reformed Presuppositional Apologetics, part 2


Al Martin   Al Martin, has been an elder at the Trinity Baptist Church of Montville, New Jersey since its inception in 1967. Over thirty years of pastoral experience and an evident gift of pointed applicatory preaching have made Pastor Martin a widely recognized counselor and pastor.

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• What is a Biblical Christian?

• The Practical Implications of Calvinism


A.W. Pink   A.W. Pink (1886-1952), a native of Nottingham, England, whose life as a pastor and writer was spent in a variety of locations in the British Isles, the United States, and Australia.

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• Another Gospel

• Complete Submission

• Present Day Evangelism

• The Way of Salvation

• God's Word and Obedience


A.W. Tozer   A.W. Tozer (1897-1963), was an American Protestant pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctorates.

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• The Speaking Voice


Bart Garrett   Bart Garrett

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• Christians and Contraception


B.B. Warfield   B.B. Warfield (1851-1921), the famed Princeton professor has a well earned reputation as a scholar and teacher of the faith.

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• The Resurrection of Christ:

• Sanctification

• Calvin as a Theologian and Calvinism Today

• The Cessation of the Charismata

• Election

• What Fatalism Is

• Christ’s Little Ones

• The Formation of the Canon of the New Testament

• The Foundations of the Sabbath in the Word of God


Ben Aalbers

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• Weighty Matters: A Presbyterian Reformation (1 of 4)

• Weighty Matters: A Presbyterian Reformation (2 of 4)

• Weighty Matters: A Presbyterian Reformation (3 of 4)

• Weighty Matters: A Presbyterian Reformation (4 of 4)

• Weighty Matters: A Presbyterian Reformation


Cary Smith   Cary Smith

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• The Important Questions


C.F.W. Walther   C.F.W. Walther (1811-1887), educated at the University of Leipzig. For forty-six years Walther was the pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis. He also taught at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, from 1850 until his death. He served as the president of the Synod from its founding in 1847 to 1850. In 1864 he was again elected president and served until 1878.

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• Law and Gospel


C.F. Boerkoel

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• Almost Lost – But Saved And

• The Sword of Gods’ Justice


Charles Woodruff

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• Should We Make an Issue of the Sovereignty of God?

• What Is True Revival?


Christopher Caudle   Christopher Caudle, Husband of the beautiful Marci Strickland

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• Happy Meals and Theodicy


Christian George   Christian George, Christian George is an author of several books, a graduate of Beeson Divinity School and is currently working on his Ph.D. His most recent book is entitled, Sex, Sushi, and Salvation. J. I. Packer writes of this book, "The exotic potpourri of life slices vividily projects the truth that our Redeemer God alone can fufill the desires for intimacy, community, and eternity that He has implanted in us. A top-class read ..."

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• Dietrich Bonhoeffer vs.


Chuck Colson

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• Atheism


Rev. Chuck De Groat   Rev. Chuck De Groat, Assistant Pastor, Willow Creek Church, PCA; Director, Willow Creek Counseling Center

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• The Courage To Suffer

• Loving You Through Your Law

• The Relentless and Exhausting Attempt to Get It Right


C. H. Spurgeon   C.H. Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) was a British Baptist preacher who remains highly influential amongst Reformed Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers."

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• "SALVATION IS OF THE LORD!"


Clifford Wilson was an Area Supervisor at Gezer, Israel, in 1969 and former director of the Australian Institute of Archaeology. He is also the author of Crash Go the Chariots, written in answer to Erich von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods. The present article is taken from the author’s That Incredible Book . . . The Bible, Word of Truth, Melbourne, 1973

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• The Flood: Fact or Fiction?


Rev. Cornelius Van Til   Rev. Cornelius Van Til, (1895-1987) began his teaching career in 1928 as Professor of Apologetics at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1929 he was one of four Princeton professors to break away and found a new seminary, Westminster, as a conservative alternative to the more liberal Princeton. Van Til taught apologetics at Westminster from 1929 until his retirement in 1972, a 44 year career, all in all.

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• The Reformed View of Education

• Why I Believe in God


Rev. C. Harinck

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• You Must be Born Again


Dante Spencer

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• Is There Obedience In Faith?

• Protoevangelium Of Genesis 3:15


Daniel Wray

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• On Being Valiant for Truth


Dr. David W. Jones   Dr. David W. Jones, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

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• Are Biblical Covenants Dissoluble?


David Rogers   David Rogers

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• Ben and Yousef


Derek R. Iannelli-Smith   Derek R. Iannelli-Smith, Director of Biblical Counseling & Discipleship, Metro North Counseling Center

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• Reflective Review of Sexual Anorexia by Patrick Carnes

• Reflective Review of Hunger for Healing by Keith Miller


D. E. Bills

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• How to Preach with an Interpreter


Douglas Jones   Douglas Jones, Senior Fellow and Permanent Member of the Board of Trustees at New Saint Andrews College

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• Why & What:


Dwayne Wood passed away June 11, 2008. He was a graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida and a counselor in Birmingham, Alabama.

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• The Direction of Grief: Remembering


Ebenezer Erskine   Ebenezer Erskine, (June 22, 1680 - June 2, 1754), was a Scottish church leader, chief founder of the Secession Church (formed of dissenters from the Church of Scotland).

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• Thoughts on Unbelief


E. J. Young   Dr. E. J. Young (1907-1968) was a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Westminster Theological Seminary (Th.B. and Th.M.), and the Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning (Ph.D.), Young was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in 1935. One year later, he joined the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, the same year that he was appointed to the Old Testament department at Westminster Seminary.

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• The Human Writers of the Old Testament


Elnathan Parr (1577–1622), Church of England clergyman and religious writer.

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• The Study of the Word


Eric M. Moulton

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• Relevant Gospel Contours for Ministry to Students in a Postmodern Context


Ernest C. Reisinger   Ernest C. Reisinger was pastor emeritus of Grace Baptist church in Cape Coral, Florida, and associate editor of The Founders Journal.

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• Doctrinal Content of the Message of Evangelism


Erroll Hulse, serves as associate pastor of Leeds Reformed Baptist Church in Leeds, England.

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• Adding to the Church

• The Local Church and Evangelism


Dr. Gary D. Long  

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• A Doctrinal Study on the Extent of the Atonement

• A Doctrinal Study on the Extent of the Atonement

• A Doctrinal Study on the Extent of the Atonement

• A Doctrinal Study on the Extent of the Atonement

• A Doctrinal Study on the Extent of the Atonement


Rev. Gary T. Waldecker and Family   Rev. Gary T. Waldecker, MTW

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• Toward a Theology of Movement


G. J. Vos   Geerhardus Johannes Vos (aka G. J. Vos) (1862–1949) was an American, Reformed theologian and one of the most distinguished representatives of the Princeton Theology. He is sometimes called the father of Reformed Biblical Theology.

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• True’ and Truth’ in the Johannine Writings


George Jaffray

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• Explosive Evangelism


Graham Buck   Graham Buck

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• No Sacrifice Remains:


J. Gresham Machen   J. Gresham Machen

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• The Doctrine of the Atonement

• The Creeds and Doctrinal Advance

• On the Deity of Christ

• Faith and Works

• Life Founded Upon Truth 

• The Living Saviour


Henry Mahan   Henry Mahan was born in Birmingham, Alabama August 1926. He began pastoring at the young age of 21 and has wide experience in the pastoral ministry, having been pastor of Thirteenth Street Baptist Church, Ashland, Kentucky, for over 50 years.

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• What is it to Preach the Gospel?


Henry M. Morris   Henry M. Morris attended the University of Minnesota (M.S.; Ph.D.), and Rice University (B.S.). Moreover, he was Head of the Civil Engineering Department at Southwestern Louisiana University

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• The Case Against Evolution

• The Geologic History


Dr. H. Henry Meeter, served for thirty years as Chairman of the Bible Department at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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• The Place of Faith in the Calvinistic System

• The Fundamental Principle of Calvinism


Homer C. Hoeksema   Homer C. Hoeksema (1923-1989), Professor of Dogmatics and New Testmanet studies at Protestant Reformed Seminary.

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• God So Loved the World


Hywel Jones   Hywel Jones, Professor of Practical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary, California.

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• The Doctrine of Scripture Today


I.C. Herendeen

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• Accepting Christ


Ilya Lizorkin Stellenbosch University.

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• The Woman of Valor:

• The Woman of Valor:


Issac Watts   Issac Watts

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• Proof of a Separate State of Souls, Part 1

• Proof of a Separate State of Souls, Part 2

• Proof of a Separate State of Souls, Part 3

• Proof of a Separate State of Souls, Part 4

• Proof of a Separate State of Souls, Part 5


Jack and Carol Arnold   Dr. Jack L. Arnold (1935-2005), President of Equipping Pastors International, and Pastor Emeritus of Covenant Presbyterian Church, Oviedo, FL (pictured with wife Carol)

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• Another Look at Missions for the New Millennium


Jacob Hale

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• Derrida, Van Til and the Metaphysics of Postmodernism


James E. Adams   James E.Adams is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where he majored in Greek and received an A.B. degree. He earned a B.D. from the Reformed Episcopal Seminary, the S.T.M from the Temple University School of Theology in Homiletics under Andrew W. Blackwood, and the Ph.D from the University of Missouri. He also did graduate work at the Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary and held a post-doctoral fellowship in Psychology at the University of Illinois under O. Hobart Mowrer.

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• Decisional Regeneration


James Wilson

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• Civil Government


Jason Foster   Jason Foster, 2006 M. Div Graduate from Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL

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• Hospitality

• The Ecology of John Calvin


Jay Wilson, student Reformed Theological Seminary.

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• Starbucks: The Land of Opportunity!


John Angell James

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• The Necessity of Progress


J.C. Ryle   J.C. Ryle, in 1841 was ordained as a minister in the Anglican Church, (Church of England). In 1880 Ryle was named the first Bishop of the newly constituted diocese of Liverpool. Throughout his ministry he became known and beloved as a defender of the evangelical reformed faith as expressed in the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, of the Church of England.

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• Prayer


Jeff Rojan, publisher of the Reformed Layman.

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• A Conversation Concerning Infant Baptism

• A Conversation Concerning Pretended Liberty of Conscience


Dr. J.I. Packer   Dr. J. I. Packer was educated at Oxford University. Packer has served as assistant minister at St. John's Church of England, Harborne, Birmingham and Senior Tutor and Principal at Tyndale Hall (an Anglican seminary in Bristol). He preaches and lectures widely in Great Britain and America and contributes frequently to theological periodicals. His writings include Fundamentalism and the Word of God, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and Knowing God. Currently Dr. Packer is Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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• J. I. Packer's introduction to a 1958 reprint

• Evangelical Annihilationism in Review

• Conscience, Choice, and Character

• What Did the Cross Achieve?

• Freedom and Authority

• The Old Gospel and the New

• Situational Ethics

• The Plan of God


Joel Esala   Joel Esala

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• The Epistemology of Pascal’s Wager


Joseph E. Torres   Joseph E. Torres

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• Faith vs. Faith

• What’s God’s Time Frame?


John Barber   Dr. John Barber, Pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

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• Dave Hunt's What Love is This: Calvinism's Misrepresentation of God

• The Da Vinci Code:

• Luther and Calvin on Music and Worship


John Blanchard   John Blanchard is an internationally known Christian preacher, teacher, apologist and author. He has written 25 books, including two of Britian's most widely used evangelistic presentations, Right With God and the booklet Ultimate Questions.

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• Ultimate Questions


John Bunyan

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• Sanctification


John Calvin   John Calvin (1509 – 1564) was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism or Reformed theology. In Geneva, he rejected Papal authority, established a new scheme of civic and ecclesiastical governance, and created a central hub from which Reformed theology was propagated. He is renowned for his teachings and writings - especially The Institution of Christian Religion.

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• Difficulties in Scripture

• The Mystery of Godliness

• The Resurrection of Christ

• The Call to Witness


John Cheesman, is the Vicar of St James' Church, Westgate, Ramsgate, Kent.

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• Another Gospel

• The End of the Gospel: Worship


John Colquhoun, (1748-1827) former pastor New Church in South Leith, Scotland. Educated at Glasgow University. Shortly after his conversion he walked all the way from Luss to Glasgow, a distance in all of about fifty miles, to buy a copy of Thomas Boston's Fourfold State. This book had a moulding influence on his early Christian life. He came to esteem it next to his Bible. The influence of Boston's teaching was later to permeate his ministry and writings.

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• The Establishment of the Law by the Gospel

• The Uses of the Gospel and the Law

• The Law and the Gospel, Part 1

• The Law and the Gospel, Part 2

• The Law and the Gospel, Part 3


John A Davies   John A. Davies

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• Toward a Biblical Theology of the Environment, part 1

• Toward a Biblical Theology of the Environment, part 2


John De Vries was Associate Professor in Chemistry at Calvin College when he gave this address at the Second American Calvinistic Conference, held at Calvin College and Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 3-5, 1942.

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• The Word of God and Science


Dr. John M. Frame   Dr. John M. Frame, Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL

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• Apologetic Method

• Certainty

• Christ and Culture

• Doctrine of the Knowledge of God (for Apologetics)

• Do We Need God To Be Moral?

• Greeks Bearing Gifts

• I'm Glad You Asked

• Infinite Series

• No News Is Good News

• The Ontological Argument

• Problems of Apologetics

• Self Refuting Statements

• Apologetic Method Summer 2004

• Transcendental Arguments

• Unregenerate Knowledge of God

• A Van Til Glossary

• Van Til Reconsidered

• Why I Believe 2

• A Fresh Look at the Regulative Principle

• Christian Faith, Health, and Medical Practice

• Christians and Charter Schools

• Christian Schools

• Cloning

• Do We Need God To Be Moral?

• The Biblical Doctrine of the Family

• Heart Righteousness and Decalogical Hermeneutics

• Homelessness

• Homosexuality and AIDS

• Living With Ourselves

• Ministries of Mercy to the Unborn

• Minorities and the Reformed Churches

• Must We Always Tell the Truth?

• Oaths and Slang

• Operation Rescue: Case Study on Civil Disobedience

• Pastoral and Social Ethics

• Pastoral and Social Ethics

• Pastoral and Social Ethics Spring 2005

• Pastoral and Social Ethics

• Polygamy

• Preaching Christ From the Decalogue

• Racism, Sexism, Marxism

• Meanings of “Racism,” and Some Evaluations

• Recent Reflections on Divorce

• Stealing By Government

• The New Reproduction

• Toward a Theology of the State

• Women In the Church

• Women Teaching Adult Sunday School Classes

• Christianity and Contemporary Epistemology

• History of Epistemology

• History of Epistemology

• History of Epistemology

• No News Is Good News: Modernity, The Postmodern, and Apologetics

• Paul Helm: Belief Policies

• Review of Esther Meek, Longing to Know

• How to be Confident amid Millennial Frenzy

• The Collected Works of John M. Frame

• Ministries of Mercy to the Unborn

• The Apostle

• Between the Apostles and the Parousia

• Evangelical Reunion, part 21

• The Bible On the Problem of Evil