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Address by Dr. James Berry at the conference “Justification by Faith Alone: Recovering Law and Gospel” in Cape Town, South Africa, on 21 June 2025. Since the Fall, humankind has grappled with the tragic reality of our fallenness. This fallenness is most fundamentally experienced as shame—the recognition of a core

Address by Rev. Dr. Simon Jooste at the conference “Justification by Faith Alone: Recovering Law and Gospel” in Cape Town, South Africa, on 21 June 2025. Since Adam broke God’s covenant of strict justice, God has made merciful provision for humanity to live on under divine standards of justice, enforced

Address by Rev. Dr. David Noe at the conference “Justification by Faith Alone: Recovering Law and Gospel” in Cape Town, South Africa, on 20 June 2025. Since 381 AD, the church universal has with one voice confessed our belief in “one baptism for the remission of sins”. Like virtually all

Address by Rev. Dr. Dan Borvan at the conference “Justification by Faith Alone: Recovering Law and Gospel” in Cape Town, South Africa, on 20 June 2025. Martin Luther and John Calvin held divergent views concerning the Epistle of James relative to the doctrine of justification, particularly in relation to the

[. . .] There are real problems with ignoring original context and original intent. First, we effectively lose the Scriptures. If the Scriptures really mean what they mean to this reader and that reader (no matter if those readings contradict each other), then there is no text of Scripture. The

RCSS Pastor Rev. Dr Simon Jooste gave two presentations at the Ratio Christi Conference in Cape Town on 3 August 2024. The title of the first presentation is “God’s justice is not ‘social justice’: an apologetics perspective”. Social justice movements have swept the globe, leaving many Christians to believe that