In Colossians 2:19-23, the Apostle Paul admonishes the Christians at Colossae not to let their faith in Christ be derailed by false teachers who are insisting upon submission to all sorts of worldly rules, such as abstaining from food and drink. Like the Pharisaic version in the days of Jesus,Continue Reading
It could have been tempting for the Christians on the island of Crete, back in the first-century, to create their own gated-community and just shut out the rest of the world. Why? Because Crete was a very difficult place to live for believers. Remember, Christians were looked upon with suspicionContinue Reading
The early church, during the time of Paul and Titus, had many things stacked against her. Christians were considered an odd and sometimes dangerous minority in the first-century Greek and Roman world. People were suspicious of them. For one, Christians were notorious for being unwilling to worship Caesar and theContinue Reading
The sheep in the churches on the island of Crete were surrounded by dangerous animals. One of Crete’s poet-prophets, Epimenides, once joked that the absence of wild beasts on the island could be explained by the presence of humans. Cretans were known for being lovers of money, viciously greedy, liarsContinue Reading
Two of the challenges that the minister Titus was facing as a church planter on the island of Crete centered on the Christian’s relationship to the world outside of the church. On the one hand, there were false teachers who believed that in order to be saved one had toContinue Reading
During our service this past Sunday evening, we confessed Heidelberg Catechism Q/A 1: What is your only comfort in life and in death? That I, with body and soul, both in life and in death,1 am not my own,2 but belong to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ,3 who with HisContinue Reading
The following is the sermon from this past Sunday evening service, November 25, 2012. Justification is by faith alone (Gal. 2:15-21) The bible can basically be broken down into two parts or moods: law and gospel. The law tells us what God requires of us, while the gospel tells usContinue Reading
This past Sunday evening, October 14, the RCSS gathered for corporate worship at the Reformed Church of Cape Town in the city bowl. The following is the liturgy that was followed and the sermon that was preached. You are welcome to join us this coming Sunday evening. Please watch thisContinue Reading
In Titus 1.10-16, Paul addresses the false teachers that had unsettled the churches on the island of Crete. These false teachers were of a Jewish kind, not unlike the Pharisees that we read about in the Gospels and the Judaizers that Paul condemns in the book of Galatians. Basically, theyContinue Reading
Reformed Church Southern Suburbs 2025