Covenant Reformed News - August 2023
... text refers to the ritual or ceremony of baptism: Everyone baptized with water has personally and truly “put on Christ.” According to this view, Galatians 3:27 teaches the baptismal regeneration of all ...
Covenant Reformed News - July 2023
... New Testament that concern the believer’s spiritual adornment. Some verses speak of the Christian’s clothing as a once-and-for-all gift granted to him at his regeneration, as here in Galatians 3:27: we ...
Making a Stand
... the child of God to Himself at the moment of regeneration. At that specific moment God sends forth His Spirit into our hearts. When that Spirit begins His work in us, immediately we who were dead are ...
PRC and Sister-Church News Highlights for November 27, 2022 *(Updated)
... function in showing us our depravity and sin, and our need for God’s great salvation. Now the question is: “Does the law have a place in the regeneration of a sinner and in his growth in grace, that is, ...
Covenant Reformed News - November 2022
... knowledge of Christ, as the Heidelberg Catechism teaches in the knowledge of misery. Has it such a function, and what place has it in the regeneration of a sinner and in his growth in grace?”
We have ...
Covenant Reformed News - October 2022
... in the knowledge of misery. Has it such a function, and what place has it in the regeneration of a sinner and in his growth in grace?”
Identifying our misery with our sin and depravity, the Heidelberg ...
Covenant PRC-NI Newsletter - August 2022
... of this mystical union and related it to the covenant, election, Jesus’ death, the forgiveness of sins, sanctification, our death, Christ’s resurrection, regeneration, marriage, the antithesis, abuse, ...
Psalm 69 vs. the Free Offer
... of his glorious justice” (Westminster Confession 3:7).
“Salvation” surely includes the blessings of union with Christ, regeneration, calling, justification, adoption, sanctification, preservation and ...
PRC and Sister-Church News Highlights for July 10, 2022 *(Updated)
... ng children and older children. Visit this page to learn more.
This Week's Thought for Contemplation
"The benefits of baptism are the same for children as for adults: the forgiveness of sins, re ...
Covenant Reformed News - May 2022
... is forever sure for the God of eternal election, effectual redemption and irresistible regeneration will not and cannot change. Rev. Angus Stewart
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Covenant Reformed News - April 2022
... Jesus mean by being ‘born of water and of the Spirit’ in John 3:5? Obviously, this isn’t referring to baptismal regeneration.”
“What does John mean by ‘the spirit, and the water, and the blood’ in I ...
By Faith Rahab Received the Spies
... renewed or recreated through the work of Jesus Christ and His Spirit. This takes place, as we have noticed before, at the time of regeneration. Then, when grafted into Christ, a person is repelled by ...
Desiring a Better Country
... us by Christ on the cross. That salvation begins with the work of regeneration, our spiritual rebirth. At that time we who were dead up to this point receive the life of Christ in us. With that work ...
By Faith Abraham Obeys God’s Call`
... is the faith God works in our hearts. The power unto faith is a gift God bestows on us at the moment of our regeneration. Regeneration, remember, is that moment in a dead sinner’s life when God instills ...
PRC and Sister-Church News Highlights for November 7, 2021
... rated Noah. He took this fallen man who was born dead in sin and infused into his heart the life of Christ. Because of that work of regeneration, man believes and repents, and that, by virtue of the ...
By Faith Noah Prepares an Ark
... of Christ. Because of that work of regeneration, man believes and repents, and that, by virtue of the grace received! This was the grace Noah found in the eyes of the Lord.
By virtue of the ...
Abels' More Excellent Sacrifice
... that one cannot believe without being regenerated by the Spirit. At the time of regeneration, the Spirit of Jesus Christ begins a powerful work in the heart of the child of God. He grafts us into Jesus ...
Faith: A Confident Conviction
... the miraculous work of regeneration. At that moment we are brought from death into life. This is true because at that moment we are also grafted into Jesus Christ. We are dead branches grafted into ...
Covenant Reformed News - October 2021
... God’s all-encompassing providence and the infallibility of the Bible. The papacy’s seven sacraments are unbiblical, including baptismal regeneration, transubstantiation, masses for the dead, the worship ...
The Comfort of the Intermediate State
... with our regeneration (John 5:24, 25) when the heavenly and undying life of Christ is given us. Our resurrection continues when our souls fly away from this world to the next, and is completed with th ...