Reformed Church Southern Suburbs

“The Holy Scriptures are sufficient. We don’t need any addition revelation. If somebody says, ‘The Holy Spirit told me’, I’m going to test it against the Scriptures. If it agrees with the Scriptures, then I don’t really need that additional revelation. If somebody says, ‘The Holy Spirit told me’, and

Like the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), Romans is in three parts: guilt, grace and gratitude. We may consider Romans 1:1–17 the prologue to the epistle. The guilt section runs from 1:18–3:20. Here Paul is preaching the law in its first use: to convict the world of sin and its need for a Saviour. Failure to

For many evangelicals and for some ostensibly Reformed folk, it has been fashionable for the past several years to teach that we are justified now by grace alone (sola gratia), through faith alone (sola fide), on the basis of Christ’s righteousness imputed but that because salvation includes sanctification and sanctification

[The] gospels do not speak at length or even frequently about Jesus “hanging out” (as people say) with prostitutes or even with sinners. When we account for the repetition of the same narratives in the synoptic gospels (i.e., Matthew, Mark and Luke), we can focus on three passages: Matthew 9:10, 32-32; and Luke

As Reformed Christians, we confess that infants of believing parents (or of at least one believing parent) should be baptised. Heidelberg Catechism Lord’s Day 74 asks, “Should infants, too, be baptised?” Answer: Yes. Infants as well as adults belong to God’s covenant and congregation.[1] Through Christ’s blood, the redemption from

Pastor and church historian R. Scott Clark has completed a series of podcasts on the Apostles’ Creed. Dr Clark writes: “I chose the title for this series for two reasons: (1) Since I began pastoral ministry in 1987, it is one of the questions I have received most often. (2)