Tag: salvation

Posted in The Reformation and Westminster Confession Series

Westminster Confession Week 9: Works, Perseverance, and Assurance of Pardon

Posted on by Rev Bill Crawford

The real meat and potatoes of the Reformed Tradition.  How do you know you are saved?  What merit does your good works bring to God?  Can you lose your salvation?  All these are centered in the absolute Sovereign Grace of God.  Not in your weak and temporary choices!  

Posted in The Reformation and Westminster Confession Series

Reformation Week 4: The Inconvenient Doctrine

Posted on by Rev Bill Crawford

My nickname for God’s eternal decrees – The Inconvenient Doctrine is explained as we look at God’s total and complete Sovereign Grace

I can’t deny the complexity of the topic – and I pray this brings more clarity than confusion.

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God Saves Us

Posted on by Rev Bill Crawford

Titus3:4-7 was this mornings reading (and Sunday morning’s sermon text).

God saves us. We westerners have grappled with the meaning of this for some time. We really struggle with being “helpless” but the fact is the human is helpless to overcome their sins and the only course to salvation is God’s saving us.

This is further expounded throughout the book of Ephesians but specifically covered in the foundational text of the Reformed Tradition:

Ephesians 2:8-10
English Standard Version (ESV)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

What does it mean to you today that the God of the Universe, the one who creates all things, knows all things, is all present, and is all powerful created you? and is calling you to a profound and meaningful relationship?

What does it mean to you that God; being in his very nature all knowing and all powerful, could not create Adam without knowing and creating you?

These are profound, awesome, and wonderful thoughts to live with. They should be life changing and life impacting.

Be blessed, bless God, and bless others.