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This is chapter 13 taken from Alexander’s Thoughts on Religious Experience. Alexander had twenty years of pastoral ministry before he went to become Princeton Seminary’s first professors. This was published in 1845, and though it is old, by modern standards, it contains some of the wisest and weightiest advice available for Christians who seek to grow in their walk with Christ.

We reject and believe heretical the view that all prophecy–without exception–was fulfilled at the destruction of the temple in AD 70. Here is a statement adopted by our elders in November of 2000.

Originally written for Credenda Agenda, this article is a tongue-in-cheek assessment of the foolishness of pop-psychology.

Sexual conflict is a “garden variety” type of sin that married couples can, through the power of the Holy Spirit, conquer. This article, written for the “bathing suit issue” of Credenda Agenda, seeks to help point the way.

Sincerity in worship is essential to right worship, but not sufficient for it. Sincerity cannot invalidate the authority of the Word to govern our worship.

This entry is part of a series, pastor-traps» Introduction Few things devastate the church as thoroughly as a compromised pastor. To be sure, no pastor is sinless, and indeed, each must model confession and repentance of sin to the flock. But some scandalous sins sully the white garment of integrity so badly that the reproach [...]

This entry is part of a series, pastor-traps» ast issue began a multi-part series for this column – a series devoted to the taxonomy of pastoral sin. In so doing we have passed by the more common, household pests, and devoted ourselves to the leviathans and behemoths of pastoral iniquity – those large enough to [...]

This entry is part of a series, pastor-traps» Lying in pallor before us on the gurney, stiff with death’s chill, are the lifeless remains of a once blooming, vigorous pastorate. One glance at the corpse’s swollen head reveals the cause of death–he succumbed to the same ailment that got Diotrephes. He loved the preeminence. Sexual [...]

This entry is part of a series, pastor-traps» Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. . . 1 Sam. 2:22 If it were to reason from practice to [...]

This entry is part of a series, free-literature» If you are relatively new to Christ Church, chances are you probably have questions about our worship. Euphemistically speaking, it is for many visitors so . . . “different,” so . . . “regimented,” so . . . “Catholic.” Or it may even be that you’ve worshipped [...]