Christianity & Culture Conference Featuring Rev. Dr. David VanDrunen 22-23 August 2014 Hosted by Reformed Church Southern Suburbs (RCSS) ~ Would you consider spreading the word about this conference? A flyer for distribution can be found here ~ Struggle to relate your faith to popular culture? Should we be concernedContinue Reading
In Genesis 9:6 God says: Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.” What does it mean to image God? What happened to man’s likeness to God after the Fall? How does the image of God informContinue Reading
In this sermon on Genesis 8:20-9:17, we look at God’s non-redemptive covenant with Noah after the flood, which governs and sets the terms for Christian life in God’s common kingdom. This sermon furthers the two kingdoms argument that Christ’s call to turn the other cheek in the Sermon on theContinue Reading
In Matthew 5:33-48, Jesus – as the one greater than Moses – contrasts his spiritual kingdom with the earthly geopolitical kingdom of Israel in the Promised Land, governed by the laws of the Mosaic (Old) covenant. What is most striking about Christ’s words here is that he overturns God’s commandsContinue Reading
Cape Town showcases some of the most staggering natural beauty that this world has to offer (see left.) The problem is that many believe that the God of salvation can be found in the mountain, trees and streams. The thing is that while the nature of things does reveal theContinue Reading
Over the last few weeks we have heard God speak to us through Paul’s letter to Titus. In this letter we have learned many things about our lives inside and outside of the church. Central among these truths is that God has saved us by his grace and not byContinue 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
I have already drawn attention to the fact that the elder qualifications in Titus 1.5-9 have many things in common with moral virtues expected from upstanding pagan citizens in the ancient world of Greece. (This is one piece of evidence for the fact that even non-Christians know something of God’sContinue Reading
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