Hard Theology
Why a Trinitarian Benediction? — 2 Corinthians 13:14
Reverend Anthony R. Locke May 30th, 2010 (Trinity Sunday) at the First Presbyterian Church of Tucker 2 Corinthians 13:14 English Standard Version The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. The Trinity is one of those distinctively Christian doctrines that separate us from…
Read MoreA Place Prepared for the Devil — Revelation 20:7-10
Sermon Series in Revelation # 41 Revelation 20:7-10 7 And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of…
Read MoreInfant Baptism: How My Mind Has Changed by Dennis E. Johnson
In 1994 one of our daughters, while away from home attending college, asked me to explain the rationale I saw in God’s Word for baptizing the infant children of believers. Since I was a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church when she and her siblings were born, they had all been baptized as infants; but…
Read MoreWhy We Baptize the Children of Believers
“Why does your church baptize infants?” This is a question that is often asked by visitors to Reformed and Presbyterian churches. Since the historic practice of baptizing the children of believers is largely a foreign concept to the vast majority of evangelicals today, accepting this doctrine can be a difficult hurdle for a family that…
Read MoreGod CAN’T Leave Your Salvation to Chance
John 6:37-44 English Standard Version 37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of…
Read MoreIs Inerrancy A Bible Doctrine?
Matthew 5:17-20 17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is…
Read MoreFilling Up What Is Lacking in Christ’s Afflictions
Reverend Anthony R. Locke March 27th, 2011 www.FirstPresTucker.org at the First Presbyterian Church of Tucker Colossians 1:24-29 English Standard Version 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, 25 of which…
Read MoreCan You Feel Your Predestination?
Reverend Anthony R. Locke November 7th, 2010 www.FirstPresTucker.org at the First Presbyterian Church of Tucker Romans 8:28 – 9:33 English Standard Version There is an amazing Bible topic called Predestination. It answers some pretty important questions about God and our salvation. Specifically, predestination is suppose to make us feel certain things in our heart and in our faith…
Read MoreWhat Is Jesus Doing Right Now? — Matthew 16:13-28
Matthew 16:13-28 Apostle’s Creed Series 13 English Standard Version 13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”…
Read MoreIs FAITH the Necessary Good Works to get Into Heaven?
April 18th, 2010 Apostle’s Creed Series 01 John 6:22-40 22 On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. 23 Other boats…
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