by C. Matthew McMahon | Apr 6, 2020 | church history, godly meditation, Jesus Christ, Theology
Everyone ought to be on guard so that, consistent with the exhortation of the apostle, everyone may possess his vessel in sanctification and honor (1 Thess 4:4). We must know that we have the enemy within ourselves, that we carry the seed of uncleanness within, which...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Apr 3, 2020 | church history, Ecclesiology, Idolatry, Reformation, Sacraments, Worship
II. The Scriptures plainly represent magistrates’ granting of men an unrestrained freedom to profess and practice a false religion as extremely sinful and hurtful. 1. It is in the name of God to give liberty to the flesh, of which heresies and idolatry are the...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Apr 2, 2020 | church history, Coronavirus, Reformation
Yellow Fever was as feared if not more than what is currently going around. It killed 10 percent of the remaining population in NYC when half the 50,000 citizens had fled the city. Samuel Miller was minister at the collegiate Presbyterian church at the time and...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Apr 1, 2020 | church history, Coronavirus, Reformation, Theology
“And although that in so great varietie of Circumstances, Rules for every singular thing cannot be set down; yet is it no hard matter to give certain General Precepts agreeable unto the Word of God, by the which, as by a certain Rule, singular Cases may afterwards (as...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Jun 11, 2019 | church history, Devotions, God, Jesus Christ, prayer, Reformation
When his close friend Philipp Melanchthon became deathly ill, Luther prayed fervently for him: “I wearied God’s ears with all his promises of hearing prayers.” Luther even threatened to question God’s faithfulness if God didn’t answer him! Melanchthon recovered, and...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Jun 8, 2019 | church history, Devotions, prayer, Reformation, Theology
How should I pray? What exactly should I say? How long should I go on? Such were the questions put to Luther by his barber and lifelong friend, Peter Beskendorf. In response, Luther composed A Simple Way to Pray, in which he showed how the Lord’s Prayer, the Ten...
