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Did you say "Identity"

    Over the past decade, the realm of thought around the concept of identity, or self-identification, has been a sensitive topic in our post-modern culture. There is a cornucopia of ideas that, not only facilitate Identity, but give expression its’ underlying factors. This brief article on the concept of Identity does not offer a various arrange of explanations, nor will look to break down various attacks on cultural perceptions on current trends. That task would take too much time and would be a summary on the history of philosophy and thought. We have a book recommendation for that! The intent here isn’t to critique, but rather to strip away the concept of identity down to its’ least common denominator, the internal process of man’s heart. According to the American Psychological Association, identity is an Individual’s sense of self defined by physical, psychological, and interpersonal characteristics that are not wholly shared with any other person, ethnicities and s...

The Importance of Preaching

     In today's culture and even inside of the church, we have neglected the ordained means of grace that God blesses in the building of His church. In the culture, ambiguity is the law of the land. They are fine with allowing 5 different thoughts being under the same title. This itself has come into the church.     Today, in the average church the worship in the worship service is the singing of songs. In other churches, it is prayer. These two things are worship, but the worship of a worship service is predicated upon the preaching of the Word. The most important thing we do as a church is sit under, hear, and have biblical preaching ring from the pulpit. Still, people will say that it doesn't really matter.     It is in no way healthy for a church to relegate only about 20%-30% of the service to preaching alone. The old expression goes, "keep the main thing the main thing," and in this case keep preaching as the main thing. We cannot ...

The Heidelber Catechism- Lord's Day 1: Q1 & A1

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