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Trinity Admin
Dec 30, 2024
Compiled December 2024
Below you will find a compilation of all the articles we have published at Trinity Reformed Church. Some might wonder why we are committed to writing. The answer is this: We write because we know our people are surfing the internet looking for articles to read. And while that article over at missionalreformedjourneygospelcentered.com might say something useful, it wasn’t written for you by people that love you. We don’t write for a larger audience. Our essays are written for the congregation of Trinity Reformed Church in Huntsville, Alabama. We write because our love cannot be contained.
Apologetics
Review of the Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church's Apologetic Witness
To the TRC High School Graduates of 2024
Human Nature is Religious and Why it Matters
Anxiety
The Spirit is Unwilling the Comfort and Encouragement of Psalm 51:11
Baptism
Baptists and Baptism: What Will It Take to Achieve Catholicity?
Books and Reading
Book Recommendations (2023 Part One)
Book Recommendations (2023 Part Two)
Review of its good to be a man a handbook for godly masculinity
Review of Joel Biermann Wholly Citizens: Gods Two Realms and Christian Engagement With the World
Book Recommendations 2024! Part One
Catholicity/Ecumenicity
Catholicity and What it is Not
Confessionalism
25 Theses on why we use a book of old confessions
What if Christians taught the Christian creed?
Why do we recite an ecumenical creed every Sunday?
Review of Anthony Bradley's article on critical race theory
Covenant Renewal Worship
The Day of the Lord: Or What Happens on Sunday?
Why do we recite an ecumenical creed every Sunday?
Why do we Pray So Much During Covenant Renewal Worship?
Covenant Renewal Worship and the Lord's Supper
Why do Christians Worship on Sunday?
Fuddled Worship: Why Virtual Worship is no Substitute for In Person Worship
Why Haven't We Canceled Worship Services?
Education
Class Catechism: English Civil War through American Civil War
Class Catechism: U.S. History 20th - 21st Century
Class Catechism: The New Testament
Sharpening Discernment with Charles Spurgeon
Engaging the Culture
The Ghosts of Modern Science: How Darwin and Huxley Redefined the World
Christians and History and Christian History
The Dubious Diversity Rationale
A New Vision for Virtue in Public Things
Violence and the Secular Society
The Authenticity Ethos versus Biblical Christianity
Christian Reflections for Veterans Day
The Forgotten Requirement of the Dominion Mandate
What to do about the secular takeover?
How Should Christians Respond to Censure?
What to do When Your Boss Encourages You to Support the Moral Revolution
Should Christians Sign the DEI Statement?
Toward Christian Virtue in the Temporal Realm
Antisemitism: Conservative Christianity's Unwelcome Guest
Is Huntsville an Abortion Sanctuary City?
Christianity's Vital Role in Society
The Cross Examination of Christian Nationalism
Eschatology
How is Kingdom Optimism Different from the Power of Positive Thinking?
Cosmic Redemption and Godly Ambition
Eschatology Informs Character: Meditations on Hope
Evangelicalism's Divided Soul: Megan Basham's Shepherds for Sale
Evangelicalism
Subjectivism: The Tie that Binds
A Short History of Evangelical Confusion
A Game Plan for Slumped Shouldered Christians
What is it? Explaining the Gist of Good Preaching
Evangelicalism: A Diagnostic Exam
Family and The Household
Questions This Dad Has for the College Recruiter Who has Come for My Child
Understanding Youthful Arrogance
Grandparenting and the Transcendent Summons
The City Unveiled: Encouragements for Family Devotions
So We're The Church That Hosts English Country Dances
C.S. Lewis on the Christian Household
Reflections on the Great Commission
A Brief Theology of Inheritance
Review of its good to be a man a handbook for godly masculinity
Modern Ironies and the Industrial Revolution
A Word for the High School Graduates of TRC
An Open Letter to the TRC Teenagers
Male Headship: One Sign You are Failing
What to Look for in a Future Spouse
The Sin of Depriving Your Spouse
The Sending Your Kid off to College Prayer
Friends
Matt Carpenter: A Southern Gent Becomes a Yankee
History
A Short History of Evangelical Confusion
The Reformation: Why was it Necessary?
Martin Luther: Purveyor of Reform
Modern Ironies and the Industrial Revolution
John Calvin and the American Republic
Zwingli and the Divided Soul of the Reformation
Expostulatio: A Response to Allen Guelzo on a Christian Founding
How Should Christians Remember King George III?
The American Debate About Established Religion
What if Charles Chauncy was Right?
Conflict and Selfishness: A Case Study of the Puritans
Sin
The Complicated Topic of Self-Love
The Proverbs 28 Method for Subjugating Sin
How do Christians Rationalize Fornication?
The Raucous Realm: Crude Humor Among Teenagers
The Great Commission
Principles for Distancing: Or When do I Stop Ministering to that Person?
Reflections on the Great Commission
Freedom to Serve in Your Calling
Theology
Faith, Conversion, and the Mysteries of God
Preparing for the World to Come
Rinse and Repeat: Encouragements to Press On
A Brief Theology of Possessions
What is the Relationship Between Apostasy and Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
The Forgotten Requirement of the Dominion Mandate
Six Principles of Christian Fasting
Raising Canaan: The Curse of Ham Reconsidered (Part Three)
Raising Canaan: The Curse of Ham Reconsidered (Part Two)
Raising Canaan: The Curse of Ham Reconsidered (Part One)
Thirty Theses About Good Works
What's New About the New Covenant?
Submitting to God's Righteousness
Five Questions About Assurance
Cyrus: God's Unexpected Messiah
Creativity and the Church: Or, How to Develop Creativity
Rousseau's Bluff: A Christian Response to Enlightenment Anthropology
Thirty Theses About Good Works
C.S. Lewis on Church Membership
Symbiotic Kinship Converging the Complex Bond of Faith and Works
50 Characteristics of Pseudoprophets
Traditions: The Living Faith of the Dead
Christian Foundations: The Divinity of Christ
Christian Foundations: Divine Judgment
Christian Foundations: The Fall and Original Sin
Truth Suppression Starts in the Heart
Joab the Commander: Savage or Saint?
He Descended Into Hades: Retrieving Holy Saturday
Wisdom
Are You Mature Enough to Use Social Media?