by C. Matthew McMahon | Mar 25, 2024 | bible study, church history, godly meditation, Jesus Christ, prayer, Reformation, Sacraments, Theology, Worship
Church Councils on the Word of God, Part 5by Fred T. Di Lella The First General Council In the 4th Century the Biblical doctrine of the Deity of Christ came under attack. Arius, a very handsome and affable elder from Alexandria, began to set forth blasphemous...
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 | Feb 18, 2020 | Ecclesiology, Idolatry, Sacraments, Worship
Alas! perimus licitis [We perish by permitted things], inordinate love to, and immoderate pursuing after things lawful in themselves destroy more souls than things sinful and unlawful in themselves do. The excuses of those invited to the marriage of the king’s son are...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Feb 14, 2020 | Ecclesiology, Idolatry, Sacraments, Worship
“How absurd a tenet is this, which holds that there is some particular worship of God allowed, and not commanded? What new light is this which makes all our divines [i.e. theologians] to have been in the mist, who have acknowledged no worship of God, but that which...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Feb 9, 2020 | Ecclesiology, Idolatry, Sacraments, Worship
In the observance of the 4th command consists the practice of the other 9; in the neglect of it is the neglect of all religion As in the first commandment the substance of God’s worship is set down—namely that we, knowing and acknowledging the only true God to be our...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Jun 2, 2019 | church history, Ecclesiology, Reformation, Sacraments
The Reformed church of yesteryear had a more biblically rich, complex and theologically accurate view of the Lord’s Supper than 99% of those claiming the Reformed banner today. Not only did the magisterial Reformers take time in sermons, tracts, commentaries and...
