One of the joys we have at CMC is being able to partner in the Gospel with Cor Deo’s Drs Peter Mead and Ron Frost. We appreciate their excellent New Covenant emphasis along with their willingness to allow us to present such excellent content and materials to you.

This may not be true in your Christian circles, but I tend to hear about popcorn. Perhaps it reveals a suppressed hankering from those who miss going to the cinema because they have overloaded the schedule with church activities. But what does popcorn have to do with Christianity?

I might have been one of the few people who read about Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic in Philadelphia after it was raided by the FBI back in 2010. But the fact that I’m aware of the current prosecution is because my friends have made an award-winning short documentary about the case,3801 Lancaster (a reference to the clinic address), and the “house of horrors” that masqueraded as a women’s clinic.

So you’ve recently come to faith in Jesus Christ and you’ve experienced the new birth. That’s great! We have for you yet another brief study outline that’s intended to clue you in on a few of the really great things that will be part of your blessed experience in Christ.

The early Church believed itself to have inherited the Old Testament promises given throughout the Old Testament narrative to ethnic Israel. Extant apologetic works from the first few centuries prominently feature Christians arguing that the new covenant was the fulfillment of God’s promises to Abraham, both for Jew and Gentile.

Over the past sev­eral years, I’ve seen, read, and par­tic­i­pated in a lot of dis­cus­sions about what laws or com­mand­ments we need to fol­low in the New Covenant, what a Bib­li­cal The­ol­ogy of the New Covenant should be, or what the escha­tol­ogy of NCT adher­ents should be.

There is war within us between the flesh/sin and the Spirit. But the good news is that you are free to follow the Spirit. You are never trapped in disobedience! Praise be to Jesus that he has given us all we need, he has provided everything for us.

How did the prophets manage to speak of “the grace that was to be yours”? How did they know that there was a “person and time” to search for and enquire about? The answer to these questions is rooted in the fact that, closely connected with the prophets who prophesied, there was also…. The Spirit of Christ who predicted.

How do you need to exercise bold faith where Christ has placed you? Your life is probably less than perfect; don’t be depressed or discouraged. Life was not easy for Ruth on this day. But she lived by faith on God’s word. You and I must life by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, too, regardless of our circumstances.

So you’ve recently come to faith in Jesus Christ and you’ve experienced the new birth. That’s great! We have for you yet another brief study outline that’s intended to clue you in on a few of the really great things that will be part of your blessed experience in Christ.

John Piper writes: There are books you should read at your desk hunched over and ready to wrestle with rarified ideas. Then there are books that you should read the way you stop by a shaded stream. The trust level is high. The expectation for refreshment is keen. Jon Bloom, the President of Desiring God, has written a book like that. I encourage you to get a copy. “Not By Sight”

Among other things a pastor domineers by establishing an inviolable barrier between himself and the sheep. He either surrounds himself with staff who insulate him from contact with the people or withdraws from the daily affairs of the church in such a way that he is unavailable and unreachable.

  The Difference between an Apple and a Tomato   Not long ago a friend of mine became a Christian. Now, I do not say that he “made a decision” or “had an emotional experience.” No, this was a miracle! After years of wandering in spiritual darkness, caring nothing about the things of...

I highly recommend The Father, Son and Spirit: The Trinity and John’s Gospel. I was surprised by the readability of the book (although the last chapter was quite dense) and would not be afraid to recommend it to my own congregation for prayerful/thoughtful/discerning consumption.

Grace is God’s one-way unmerited love being dumped on us without restraint. It’s unbalanced in every way. Praise God for that because our condition was so bad and in ruin that and unbalanced assault of unconditional grace is the only thing that could (and can) fix us.

Though we call ourselves Christians, and would consider it as an affront put upon us, for any one to doubt whether we were Christians or not; yet there are a great many, who bear the name of Christ, that yet do not so much as know what real Christianity is.