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Jeff Meyers: Young Child Communion & the Westminster Standards
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160; Jeff Meyers. Saturday, February 2, 2013. Young Child Communion and the Westminster Standards. On Interviews and Testimonies, Part V. Continued from Part IV. Q Doesn't admitting young children violate the Westminster Standards? Shouldn't we only admit mature believers who can understand what is happening at the Table? Is young child communion consistent with the Westminster Standards? Faith ought not to be made the criteria for genuine. Faith before we count them as a genuine. Genuine faith may be pr...
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Jeff Meyers: December 2012
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160; Jeff Meyers. Thursday, December 27, 2012. The Apostolic Succession of Suffering, Part III. And although this sounds odd to our ears, these sufferings are for the world. In other words, they are in some deep, mystical sense vicarious. Now, we usually reserve that word “substitutionary” for the sufferings of Christ for us on the cross. He took the punishment we deserved. He suffered for our sins. But thats not the only way one can substitute for another. Jeffrey J. Meyers. But that leaves the seco...
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Jeff Meyers: A Simple Church Year Catechism - Advent, Christmas, & Epiphany
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160; Jeff Meyers. Sunday, January 13, 2008. A Simple Church Year Catechism - Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. Q 1 Why do we have different seasons of the year? A God created the seasons for man’s use and enjoyment. Q 2 What do Fall and Winter remind us of? A Fall and Winter remind us of sin and death because it is dark and cold. Q 3 What do Spring and Summer teach us? A Spring teaches us that God brings light and life to the world through Jesus Christ. Q 4 What does the church calendar chiefly celebrate?
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Jeff Meyers: November 2012
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160; Jeff Meyers. Friday, November 30, 2012. Some thoughts on the Freedom of the Trinity. Jeffrey J. Meyers. Thursday, November 29, 2012. What are we to think about this kind of reasoning? Well, for one thing, it is certainly true that God is present everywhere. But his omnipresence is not what I am referring to when I talk about God's special presence. In each of these locations. There is a huge difference. Similarly, it is not that God is absent from the food court in the mall on Sunday; rather, he has...
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Jeff Meyers: October 2012
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160; Jeff Meyers. Wednesday, October 31, 2012. Augustine’s piety was rooted and grounded in theology. For Augustine, masculine piety is inseparably connected with theologizing. The separation of theology from worship, which has proved so disastrous to modern thought, was unknown to him. The separation of theology from piety was unthinkable. Theology and devotion were fused aspects of a single faith. To The City of God. Must be understood as such. And I might add, they all should be read devotionally.
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Jeff Meyers: A Simple Church Year Catechism – Lent & Easter
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160; Jeff Meyers. Thursday, February 14, 2013. A Simple Church Year Catechism – Lent and Easter. Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lenten Season) is February 13. The season of Lent lasts for 40 days (not including Sundays). It ends on Easter Sunday (March 31). The word “Lent” comes from the Middle English lente. 8220;spring”) and from the Old English lengten. At the heart of any worthy Lenten observance is a cultivated attitude of repentance. True repentance means a genuine change in heart and mind, a ...
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Jeff Meyers: Young Communicants & Voting
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160; Jeff Meyers. Friday, February 15, 2013. Young Communicants and Voting. On Interviews and Testimonies, Part VI. Continued from Part V. Q Should these young children vote? If they are full communing members of the church, how can they be forbidden the right to vote? Should children admitted to the table become voting members as well? No, young children should not vote. They can eat. At the Table, but they don't participate in ruling. At the Lord’s Table and passing judgments. Forbids the Session from ...
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Jeff Meyers: On Interviews & Testimonies, Part II
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160; Jeff Meyers. Tuesday, November 20, 2012. On Interviews and Testimonies, Part II. Continued from Part I. Probably the most popular set of diagnostic questions for evangelically oriented elders and boards are the two Evangelism Explosion (EE) questions:. 1 Have you come to the place in your spiritual life where you can say you know for certain that if you were to die today you would go to heaven? What would you say? I want to unpack this a little bit more. Or even how they think. Don't twist what I am...
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Jeff Meyers: Learning the Bible!
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160; Jeff Meyers. Thursday, February 7, 2013. For years I've complained that churches don't teach the Bible. That seminaries don't effectively teach Bible content! That endless topical sermons in our churches are contributing to an epidemic of biblical illiteracy in the Christian community. Here is some good stuff on this topic my Michael Bull. Was it because he was taught that the Bible was written by idiots, or was it because he was taught by idiots? Read the entire article here. Jeffrey J. Meyers.
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Jeff Meyers: On Interviews & Testimonies, Part III
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160; Jeff Meyers. Thursday, January 31, 2013. On Interviews and Testimonies, Part III. Continued from Part II. What are the implications for the interview process? Second, we should be very careful not to accuse a candidate of "salvation by works" simply because they talk about their obedience or faithfulness. Let's say that a child is asked if he believes he will go to heaven when he dies. The child responds:. Yes, I believe so. Interviewer: That's wonderful. How do you know. Get you into heaven? He is ...
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