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12 Articles of Faith ◊ January 11, 2004

Addiction: Sin or Disease? ◊ September 11, 2011

Adultery and Forgiveness ◊ February 01, 2004

Advance Directives for Health Care ◊ November 21, 2009

Age Requirements for Lord's Supper ◊ April 10, 2010

Alcoholic Beverages ◊ October 28, 2007

Anglicans taking Communion in an OPC ◊ December 02, 2002

Animals' Role in Life ◊ February 06, 2010

Apocrypha and Purgatory ◊ December 14, 2003

Apostles today ◊ March 10, 2003

Apostolic Healing Services Revisited ◊ June 19, 2005 ◊ December 26, 2004

Apostolic Succession and the Roman Catholic Church ◊ May 30, 2004

Apparent Contradiction in Scripture? ◊ October 17, 2004

Are all sins equal in God's eyes? ◊ March 13, 2011

Are changing seasons a result of the fall? ◊ November 16, 2014

Ash Wednesday ◊ August 21, 2005

Assemblies of God ◊ June 30, 2003

Associate Pastors ◊ January 23, 2011

Attire in Worship Services ◊ March 20, 2011

Authors of Answers ◊ April 02, 2006

Authorship of the Gospels ◊ August 26, 2007

Baptism from another denomination ◊ September 21, 2003

Baptismal Regeneration ◊ August 06, 2006

Baptists and evangelism ◊ September 12, 2010

Baptists and the OPC ◊ December 16, 2007

Baptizing Children of Non-Members ◊ May 28, 2006

Begotten or Proceeding ◊ July 14, 2013

Bible Presbyterian Church ◊ January 13, 2008

Bible Translations ◊ August 14, 2005

Biblical Forgiveness ◊ February 20, 2010

Biblical Theology ◊ August 05, 2007

Binding and loosing ◊ February 26, 2012

Blood and organ donation ◊ November 21, 2010

Blood of Jesus ◊ October 31, 2004

Body, Soul and Spirit ◊ May 01, 2010

Business Partnerships with Unbelievers ◊ August 12, 2007

Calvin and Servetus ◊ September 16, 2012

Calvinism and Reformed Denominations ◊ March 20, 2005

Calvinism vs. Hyper-Calvinism ◊ March 03, 2003 ◊ February 10, 2008

Can Catholics Be Christians? ◊ February 05, 2006

Can Christians own luxuries? ◊ March 31, 2013

Capital Punishment ◊ April 06, 2008

Capitalization of pronouns referring to God ◊ April 04, 2004

Caring for the pastor ◊ May 04, 2008

Carry your cross ◊ January 27, 2003

Catholic vs. Presbyterian ◊ March 28, 2004

Charge to a Congregation ◊ January 23, 2005

Chastening by the Lord ◊ February 03, 2008

Children's Church ◊ March 16, 2008

Children's friends ◊ June 09, 2013

Children: are they an obligation? ◊ March 21, 2004

Christian Condolence to a Non-Christian ◊ April 23, 2006

Christian counseling or psychology ◊ July 15, 2012

Christian Lifestyle ◊ July 22, 2007

Christian Reformed Church ◊ November 30, 2003

Christian Schools ◊ July 15, 2007

Christian Singles ◊ June 10, 2007

Christian View of Contraception ◊ July 03, 2005 ◊ September 28, 2003

Christmas star in Matthew 2 ◊ December 30, 2012

Church Attendance ◊ July 17, 2011

Church building uses ◊ September 30, 2012

Church business meetings on Sunday ◊ April 30, 2006

Church discipline ◊ November 16, 2003

Church fund raising ◊ May 08, 2011

Church Membership from a distance ◊ September 13, 2015

Church membership materials ◊ December 02, 2007

Church unity ◊ January 06, 2008

Close Relationship with God ◊ April 24, 2005

Collecting the offering ◊ October 21, 2012

Coming from other denominations ◊ November 09, 2003

Common Grace, Well-Intentioned Offer, etc. ◊ November 14, 2004

Communion of Saints ◊ January 04, 2004

Covenant Theology and the OPC ◊ October 07, 2007 ◊ October 31, 2009

Covert Missions ◊ December 25, 2005

Creation of Man in Genesis ◊ April 16, 2006

Creation: length of days ◊ March 31, 2003

Creationism vs. Traducianism ◊ December 03, 2006

Criteria of Biblical Canon ◊ February 12, 2012

Crosses in the sanctuary ◊ March 04, 2012

Da Vinci Code ◊ August 20, 2006

Deadly weapons ◊ February 03, 2013

Deborah's Leadership Position ◊ October 16, 2005

Deceiving Pharaoh ◊ November 26, 2006

Demon Possession ◊ October 16, 2011

Denominations and Christian Truth ◊ June 05, 2005 ◊ April 17, 2010

Denominations, Reformed ◊ March 20, 2005 ◊ April 22, 2012

Did David Pray for Grace? ◊ September 17, 2006

Did God Make My Son Homosexual ◊ November 18, 2007 ◊ July 21, 2013

Dietary laws in O.T. ◊ March 06, 2011

Differences between Presbyterian denominations ◊ April 22, 2012

Differing with WCF ◊ May 23, 2010

Discerning the Will of God ◊ December 04, 2005

Divinity of Jesus ◊ March 13, 2010

Divorce and Christian Service ◊ June 03, 2007 ◊ September 02, 2007

Does God desire that everyone be saved? ◊ January 13, 2013

Does God have emotions? ◊ December 09, 2012

Does God Love Everyone? ◊ May 14, 2006

Does OPC reject evolution? ◊ January 23, 2010

Does the OPC say the Lord's Prayer? ◊ June 06, 2010

Double Predestination ◊ January 28, 2007

Early Christians and the Eucharist ◊ May 15, 2005

Easter Eggs ◊ April 08, 2012

Eastern Orthodoxy ◊ June 15, 2008

Elements in the Lord's Supper ◊ September 04, 2005 ◊ April 24, 2011

Emotions - are they only physical and chemical processes? ◊ March 23, 2014

Emotions - are they only physical and chemical processes? ◊ March 23, 2014

End Times Bible Prophecy ◊ May 06, 2007

English Standard Version (ESV) ◊ August 14, 2005

Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses ◊ February 19, 2006

Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the OPC ◊ May 26, 2003

Evangelism by the OPC ◊ August 29, 2004

Evangelism without Decisional Regeneration ◊ March 13, 2005

Evening Worship Service ◊ November 11, 2007

Fake Christians and Worldly Benefits ◊ January 07, 2007

Family Roles ◊ April 18, 2004

Family Worship ◊ September 09, 2007

Fencing the table ◊ October 07, 2012

Fitting in at an OPC ◊ June 13, 2010

Flags in the sanctuary ◊ July 04, 2010

Free Will and Predestination ◊ April 27, 2008

Future of Christianity ◊ October 09, 2011

Gender changes in the NIV ◊ October 24, 2009 ◊ March 25, 2012

Gender of God ◊ June 17, 2012

Genealogies of Jesus ◊ March 19, 2006

Geology and revelation ◊ November 20, 2011

Geology vs. revelation ◊ November 20, 2011

Gift of Teaching ◊ October 24, 2010

God's Chosen People and the Holocaust ◊ June 17, 2007

God's Judgment and Hurricane Katrina ◊ October 09, 2005

God's nature ◊ July 10, 2005

Going to Church ◊ March 05, 2006

Good Non-Christian People? ◊ December 05, 2004

Gospel in the Stars ◊ July 07, 2003

Gospel Ministry ◊ September 26, 2010

Hades, Meaning of Sheol and ◊ January 30, 2005

Harold Camping ◊ May 12, 2003

Have I been called to pastoral ministry? ◊ March 10, 2013

Head Coverings ◊ April 29, 2007

Hebrews 10:29 and the Blood of the Covenant ◊ March 06, 2005

Heidelberg Catechism and Westminster Standards ◊ September 05, 2004

Heidelberg Catechism Teacher's Guide ◊ February 18, 2007

Hermeneutic Used by OPC ◊ December 10, 2006

Historic Premillennialism and Dispensationalism ◊ January 13, 2003 ◊ October 31, 2009

Home Bible Studies ◊ September 18, 2011

Hostile academic environments ◊ December 26, 2010

How Can a Loving God Condemn? ◊ November 07, 2004

How to Be Saved ◊ November 18, 2012

Hunting animals ◊ January 20, 2013

Illegal Immigrants ◊ January 02, 2010

Importance of church membership ◊ April 29, 2012 ◊ September 13, 2015

Importance of Preaching ◊ January 16, 2010

In vitro and artificial insemination ◊ October 26, 2003

Incarnation's Purpose ◊ August 11, 2003

Incorporating Churches ◊ October 12, 2003

Infant baptism and John's Baptism of Jesus ◊ March 27, 2005

Intelligent Design ◊ June 18, 2006

Intermetiate state after death ◊ October 10, 2010

Interracial marriage ◊ February 17, 2013

Is 1 John 5:7 in original scripture? ◊ August 29, 2010

Is a Wedding a Worship Service? ◊ December 19, 2009

Is Jesus the angel of the Lord? ◊ September 05, 2010

Is righteousness "imputed" or "reckoned" to us? ◊ May 20, 2012

Is sickness God's discipline? ◊ July 27, 2014

Is there hope for America's wicked society? ◊ November 04, 2012

J. I. Packer ◊ January 15, 2012

Jeremiah/Zechariah Resolution ◊ February 20, 2005

Jesus as Mary's First-Born ◊ May 22, 2005

John's Baptism of Jesus ◊ March 27, 2005

Joining an OPC ◊ January 25, 2015

Joining the Catholic Church ◊ November 11, 2012

Kenneth Hagin and Word of Faith Movement ◊ December 12, 2004

King James Version ◊ April 28, 2003

Law As Means of Grace ◊ January 15, 2006

Law in Old and New Covenant ◊ December 11, 2005

Laying On of Hands at Ordination ◊ July 24, 2005

LC 109: why was it changed? ◊ May 06, 2012

Leaving a Church Fellowship ◊ September 14, 2003 ◊ May 27, 2007

Leaving another denomination for Presbyterian ◊ February 24, 2013

Leaving the PCUSA ◊ February 08, 2004

Length of Lord's Day ◊ November 10, 2013

Lent: should we observe it? ◊ March 06, 2010

Letters on the Cross ◊ August 28, 2005

Limited atonement ◊ December 30, 2007

Liturgical Year ◊ December 26, 2009

Long hair on men ◊ November 06, 2011

Lord's Supper and Catholics ◊ March 17, 2003

Losing Salvation ◊ October 31, 2010

Lotteries and Gambling ◊ February 26, 2006

Luke 14:33 and "Giving Up Everything" ◊ March 18, 2007

Lutheran vs. Reformed ◊ February 27, 2005

Lutheranism and Limited Atonement ◊ June 08, 2008

Lutherans and Presbyterians ◊ February 25, 2008

Making restitution ◊ March 11, 2012

Man's Chief End and the Unsaved ◊ June 02, 2003

Mark of the beast ◊ January 27, 2013

Marks of the True Church ◊ May 02, 2004 ◊ March 17, 2013

Marriage with a Roman Catholic ◊ May 23, 2004

Martial arts ◊ August 14, 2011

Mary's death and burial ◊ October 14, 2012

Mary: the Mother of God? ◊ December 28, 2003

Matt. 25:31-46 and good works ◊ August 22, 2010

Matt. 7:7-11 ◊ June 05, 2011

Maximum Age of a Baptized Child ◊ June 25, 2006

Meaning of "Altar" ◊ August 13, 2006

Meaning of Sheol and Hades ◊ January 30, 2005

Mel Gibson's movie The Passion ◊ February 22, 2004

Memorial Pictures on Church Bulletins ◊ May 29, 2005

Men Under Care ◊ July 14, 2003

Military Chaplaincy ◊ December 12, 2009

Military service ◊ June 20, 2010

Millennial views ◊ April 20, 2008

Ministers: Voting and Membership ◊ March 26, 2006

Mission Philosophy: OPC & PCA ◊ July 28, 2003

Modern Medical Questions ◊ October 26, 2003

Muslim View of Jesus' Crucifixion ◊ October 03, 2004

Muslims: descended from Esau? ◊ February 04, 2007

Narnia Stories of C.S. Lewis ◊ May 07, 2006

Near death experiences ◊ November 25, 2012

New International Version (NIV) ◊ August 14, 2005

New Perspective on Paul ◊ March 12, 2006

New Testament: Word of God? ◊ October 23, 2005

Nicene Creed ◊ August 08, 2010

OPC and Calvinism ◊ August 15, 2010

OPC Controversies and GA Reports ◊ February 15, 2004

OPC Distinctives ◊ December 09, 2002

OPC General Assembly ◊ June 26, 2011

OPC on Wikipedia ◊ February 09, 2014

Ordination in the OPC ◊ September 10, 2006

Ordination of elders ◊ April 07, 2003

Origin of "session" ◊ June 01, 2014

Original Sin ◊ May 08, 2005

Original sin and immaculate conception ◊ September 09, 2012

Orthodox Revisited - Part 1 ◊ January 09, 2005 ◊ January 02, 2005

Orthodox Revisited - Part 2 ◊ January 09, 2005 ◊ January 02, 2005

Parachurch Ministries ◊ September 03, 2006

Pastor's income ◊ August 05, 2012

Pastoral Prayer ◊ November 28, 2004

Pastors: Voting and Membership ◊ March 26, 2006

Paul the Pharisee ◊ February 19, 2012

Peace About It ◊ May 09, 2010

Place of Pulpit and Table ◊ August 18, 2003

Pledge of Allegiance ◊ January 09, 2010

Polygamy in other countries ◊ February 20, 2011

Prayer "for Jesus' Sake" ◊ August 27, 2006

Prayers of Unbelievers ◊ September 23, 2007

Praying with unbelievers ◊ December 19, 2010

Predestination and Irresistible Grace ◊ November 04, 2002

Preparation for the Lord's Supper ◊ February 13, 2010

Presbyterian Beliefs ◊ July 25, 2004

Presbyterian Church Government ◊ October 21, 2007

Presbyterian Church in America ◊ January 06, 2003 ◊ July 28, 2003

Presbyterian Church USA ◊ June 16, 2003

Presbyterians and the Virgin Birth ◊ April 09, 2006

Prison Evangelism ◊ January 22, 2006

Producing Fruit ◊ March 20, 2010

Profession of faith ◊ May 29, 2011

Protestant Reformed Church and the Free Offer ◊ August 15, 2004

Protestant Saints ◊ July 31, 2005

Psalm 150 set to music ◊ February 25, 2007

Pulpit Committees ◊ January 30, 2010

Purgatory and good works ◊ March 02, 2008

Race relations perspective in the OPC ◊ March 30, 2008 ◊ February 09, 2014

Rapture and Left Behind ◊ May 19, 2003 ◊ April 03, 2011

Reaching young people ◊ June 27, 2010

Red Sea Crossing ◊ July 11, 2004

Reformed Baptists ◊ August 19, 2012

Reformed Christianity v. Atheism ◊ April 21, 2013

Reformed Church in America ◊ April 21, 2003

Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America ◊ May 16, 2004

Reformed View of Original Sin ◊ May 08, 2005 ◊ October 23, 2011

Refusing to baptise one's children ◊ December 16, 2012

Regulative principle of worship ◊ March 09, 2014

Relationship with God ◊ April 24, 2005

Repentance ◊ May 13, 2007

Restaurants on the Sabbath ◊ November 04, 2007

Revelation: Is It Completed? ◊ June 10, 2012

Robes in Worship ◊ November 23, 2003

Rock & Rap Music ◊ September 22, 2013

Roman Catholicism and "Sacred Tradition" ◊ December 17, 2006

Roman Catholics joining the OPC ◊ September 11, 2005 ◊ June 03, 2012

Romans 1:20 ◊ April 03, 2005

Ruth as Covenant Member ◊ June 26, 2005

Salvation of Infants Who Die ◊ February 29, 2004 ◊ July 08, 2012

Salvation of the Elect ◊ April 25, 2004

Salvation: Can It Be Lost? ◊ October 24, 2004

Sanctification ◊ November 25, 2007

Secret Societies ◊ November 14, 2010

Seder: should Christians celebrate? ◊ July 17, 2005

Seminary Choice ◊ December 24, 2006

Serving communion to the sick ◊ December 23, 2002 ◊ February 08, 2015

Session Confidentiality ◊ April 03, 2010

Seventh-Day Adventists ◊ June 10, 2006

Sexual Sin ◊ July 25, 2010

Sheol and Hades ◊ January 30, 2005

Short-term missions ◊ January 02, 2011

Should entertainments be avoided? ◊ March 27, 2011

Shrove Tuesday ◊ February 03, 2003

Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday ◊ August 21, 2005

Shunning the excommunicated ◊ December 11, 2011

Slain in the Spirit ◊ July 30, 2006

Sleep - is it a result of the fall? ◊ January 26, 2014

Sola Fide (only faith) ◊ July 29, 2012

Soul and Spirit ◊ October 30, 2011

Spanking Children ◊ August 31, 2003

Special and General Revelation ◊ November 20, 2011

Starting a new OP Church ◊ September 30, 2007

Supporting non-reformed agencies ◊ August 28, 2011

Systematic Theology book recommendations ◊ October 19, 2014

Teaching our daughters ◊ August 26, 2012

Teaching our daughters ◊ August 26, 2012

Tenebrae & Maundy Thursday Services ◊ March 02, 2013

Thank Offering After Communion ◊ December 19, 2004

Theonomy and the OPC ◊ December 07, 2003

Total Depravity ◊ October 23, 2011

Translation of "homosexual" in 1 Cor. 6:9 ◊ May 13, 2012

Transubstantiation ◊ January 27, 2008

Trinity Hymnal ◊ April 17, 2011

Trinity Hymnal - different words ◊ November 28, 2010 ◊ December 04, 2011

True Church and the OPC ◊ December 09, 2007

TULIP and predestination ◊ November 04, 2002

TV Apostolic Healing Services ◊ June 19, 2005 ◊ December 26, 2004

Universal Atonement ◊ February 13, 2011

Unpardonable sin ◊ December 23, 2007

Value of the Westminster Standards ◊ June 12, 2005

Verichip and the mark of the beast ◊ January 27, 2013

Virgin Mary ◊ May 22, 2005

War and "You Shall Not Murder" ◊ August 22, 2004

Wayward children ◊ March 24, 2003

Wearing a cross as jewelry ◊ November 30, 2014

Wearing jewelry and wigs ◊ January 22, 2012

Wedding locations ◊ June 15, 2014

Wedding toast/speech that glorifies God ◊ July 13, 2014

Were the Apostles (Re-)Baptized? ◊ October 01, 2006

Wesleyan view of sanctification ◊ February 24, 2003

Westminster Confession of Faith - Edition Used ◊ March 07, 2004

Westminster Confession of Faith Study Guide ◊ September 16, 2007

Westminster Standards ◊ June 12, 2005

What is the church "for"? ◊ September 23, 2012

When Was the Church Established? ◊ January 29, 2006

Why wasn't Mary's sin passed on to Jesus? ◊ April 28, 2013

Will sacrifices be restored when Christ returns? ◊ May 31, 2017

Withdrawing from the OPC ◊ November 02, 2003

Woman caught in adultery (John 8:3-11) ◊ June 29, 2014

Women in prayer meetings ◊ October 28, 2012

Women Teaching Women ◊ July 21, 2003

Women Ushers ◊ April 10, 2005

Worshiping with Arminians ◊ May 27, 2012

Zechariah 14: 1-21 ◊ May 15, 2011

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