The Struggles and Hopes of a Disabled Dad
Better than Salvation
“Glorifying God supersedes personal salvation for every truly pious person” (Joel Beeke, Puritan Reformed Spirituality, p. 2).
right attitudes toward Him and doing what He wants
“For Calvin, pietas designates the right attitude of man towards God. This attitude includes true knowledge, heartfelt worship, saving faith, filial fear, prayerful submission, and reverential love. Knowing who God is (theology) embraces right attitudes toward Him and doing what He wants (piety)” (Joel Beeke, Puritan Reformed Spirituality, p. 2).
Theology Without Life is Bad Theology
“Theology first of all deals with knowledge—knowledge of God and of ourselves—but there is no true knowledge where there is no true piety…Calvin’s concept to piety (pietas) is rooted in the knowledge of God and includes attitudes and actions that are directed to the adoration and service of God” (Joel Beeke, Puritan Reformed Spirituality, p. […]
National Association of Nouthetic Counselors
The Center for biblical Counseling is in the process of becoming a certified NANC Training Center. We anticipate that this process will be complete some time this summer. Once CBC becomes a certified training center, any training we will do or will have done will be accepted in the NANC counselor certification process. This means that anyone taking […]
We belong To One Another in Christ
“Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it be a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, p. 21)
We Know God
It was Canon Holmes, of India, who more than twenty-five years ago called attention to the inferential character of the average man’s faith in God. To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate; but He remains personally unknown to the individual. ‘He must […]
Union with Christ
“Union with Christ necessarily involves union with his people. The church is not simply a ‘means of grace,’ useful to our growth; it is a necessary part of Christian experience, to be taken with utmost seriousness” (Bruce Milne in C.J. Mahaney Ed., Why Small Groups?, p. 47).