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What was Christ System of Thought?

March 9th, 2010

Herb Trevathan

What was Christ System of Thought?

2/14/10

Anyone who claims to be a Christian must on pain of contradiction hold to the same system of thought that their Lord and Savior held. What was His system of thought? How was His mind structured? What did He consider to be fixed, absolute, objective, unalterable truth? What did He accept as the authority of His mind? What governed and guided His every thought, word and deed? What did He rely on as the arbiter that settled every dispute? What was the basis for all that He taught? What did He believe about Himself i.e. His identity, His purpose, His mission?

Christ Alone: What happened at the Cross?

February 24th, 2010

Herb Trevathan

Christ Alone:

What happened at the Cross?

2/20/10

What happened at the cross of Jesus Christ is one of the most profound questions in all of human history. How you answer this question determines your understanding of the nature of God, your peace with God, and your growth in the doctrines of grace. There are many different theories set forth through out history concerning the cross/work of Christ. However, only God’s revelation in His Holy Word gives the truth of what happened at the cross of Christ. There are only two questions concerning the meaning of Christ cross/work. Did the cross/work of Christ in and of itself alone (Christ Alone) accomplish, secure and guarantee eternal salvation for those for whom it was intended? Or does the cross/work of Christ need something independent of itself in man i.e. man’s faith, works, obedience, or discipleship to make the cross/work effective. In other words, what is the saving factor? Christ cross/work plus man’s contribution or Christ cross/work alone?

Purpose: To learn from Scripture what God says about what happened at the cross. We will learn that God saves sinners all by Himself without the help of man. God the Father planned the sacrifice of His Son from eternity past to glorify Him, by satisfying His justice and holiness by means of Christ cross/work alone to demonstrate His wrath, righteousness, grace, love and mercy.

Civilization and the Protestant Reformation

October 18th, 2009

Herb Trevathan

Civilization and the Protestant Reformation

Civilization as we know it began a few minutes before noon, October 31, 1517.

In the small east German town of Wittenberg, a 34-year-old Augustinian priest walked to Castle Church and nailed 95 theological propositions for debate on the door. The debate Martin Luther began nearly 500 years ago turned the world upside down. Democracy, civil rights and liberties, constitutional government, religious liberty, and the free market all find their roots in the Reformation.

A Religious Fundraising Scam

The occasion for the debate was the fundraising practices of the pope’s representatives in Germany. As a Catholic priest, Luther was concerned that a representative of the pope was telling his parishioners that they could purchase forgiveness for their sins. Luther knew that God alone could forgive sins, and that salvation could not be purchased for any amount of money: It was a free gift of God.