Theological Term of the Week

saints
The body of Christ; all believers worldwide, both living and dead.

• From scripture:

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building upthe body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, (Ephesians 4:11-13, ESV)

• From the Second Helvetic Confession:

Chapter 17

What Is the Church? The Church is an assembly of the faithful called or gathered out of the world; a communion, I say, of all saints, namely, of those who truly know and rightly worship and serve the true God in Christ the Savior, by the Word and Holy Spirit, and who by faith are partakers of all benefits which are freely offered through Christ.

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Linked Together: Listen and Learn

Because you can’t spend all of January reading.

Apologetics
I just finished listening to these lectures on Worldview Apologetics by James Anderson and recommend them to you. 

Canon
Michael Kruger was on the Dividing Line this morning discussing issues related to the canon of scripture.

Heidelberg Catechism

Question 17. Why must our mediator and deliverer be, at the same time, true God?

Answer: So that he might, by the power of his divine nature (a) bear in his human nature, (b) the burden of God’s wrath; (c) and might obtain for us, and restore to us, righteousness and life. (d)

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