by Dave Sarafolean | May 12, 2023 | Doctrine, Protestant Reformation, Reformed Theology
Dr. Robert Godfrey, former president of Westminster Seminary in California, and current fellow at Ligonier Ministries, has written a very helpful article about recognizing whether a church is faithful or not. His article is based upon the theology of the Protestant...
by Dave Sarafolean | May 11, 2023 | Church History, Doctrine, Reformed Theology
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the classic book, Christianity and Liberalism, published in 1923. The book was written by J. Gresham Machen, a professor of New Testament and Greek at Princeton Theological Seminary. The book was written to counter the...
by Dave Sarafolean | Oct 28, 2022 | Calvin, Calvinism, Doctrine, Protestant Reformation, Reformed Theology
The Protestant Reformation is traced to October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the church door of Wittenberg, Germany. He intended to enter into a scholarly debate with his fellow monks about church practice as compared to the teaching of Scripture. ...
by Dave Sarafolean | Oct 21, 2022 | Calvin, Church History, Doctrine, Reformed Theology
As a young Christian I was starved for a historical grounding of our faith. After college I read J.I. Packer’s book, Knowing God, with a group of singles from my church. Somewhere in there the Westminster Confession of Faith was mentioned and a seed was...
by Dave Sarafolean | Oct 18, 2019 | Doctrine, Reformed Theology
One of the trends in the evangelical church during the last decade or so has been the elastic use of the word “reformed.” What I mean is that the word identified a particular stream of the Protestant Reformation that produced creeds and confessions to...
by Dave Sarafolean | Jul 15, 2019 | Doctrine, Reformed Theology
This summer I have been preaching a series of sermons on the Canons of Dort, in recognition of the 400th anniversary of their publication. Yesterday I preached a sermon entitled Corruption and Conversion, I. I spent quite a bit of time exploring the nature of the...
