Chad Coleman

The Mercy of God

From the standpoint of the redeemed, the punishment of the wicked is an act of unspeakable mercy. How dreadful would it be if the present order of things should continue forever, when the children of God are obliged to live in the midst of the children of the Devil. Heaven would at once cease to be Heaven if the ears of the saints still heard the blasphemous, filthy language of the reprobate. What a mercy that in the New Jerusalem “there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination” (Rev 21:27) ~ A.W. Pink 1886 – 1952

Democracy Without Moral Fortitude

Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.
John Adams, An Essay on Man’s Lust for Power, 1763

On The Doctrines of Grace

Ye may yourself ebb and flow, rise and fall, wax and wane; but your Lord is this day as he was yesterday; and it is your comfort that your salvation is not rolled upon wheels of your own making, neither have ye to do with a Christ of your own shaping. -Samuel Rutherford

Women’s Head Covering And Nephilim

Recently some discussion came up with fellow parishioners regarding the verse in Corinthians (ESV) where a woman is to have her head covered. Specifically in verse 10.

¹⁰That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

Emphasis is mine regarding the angels. But this definitely makes things interesting. Why should women cover their heads as a symbol of authority, because of the angels? And where else in scripture is this sort of thing even discussed? (more…)

On Good Works

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.” (RC Sproul, Chosen By God, 107).

This means that we, in ourselves, are entirely unable to do any good. When I say ‘good’, I am not referring to what the world deems to be ‘good’. We are talking about a righteous goodness. Even God says that our good works are still as filthy rags to Him.

In Isaiah 64:6 we read “We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.”

And so, all truly good works come from the Father working through us.