Jeffrey Perry®

Believer, have you failed today? Take heart, Christ hasn’t.

Skipping corporate worship isn’t just missing a sermon. It’s missing the voice of Christ, the comfort of His table, and the strengthening of your soul through the ordinary means of grace.

"A good liturgy declares Christ to me by driving me to Jesus in the Law and proclaiming comfort to me in the Gospel." Rod Rosenbladt

The principle acts of saving faith have immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, and resting upon him alone for justification, sanctification, and eternal life, by virtue of the covenant of grace. LBCF 1689, 14.2

Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It's moving away from virtue to Christ. Rod Rosenbladt

God is in the Details

To those worried about antinomianism, I understand. You fear that too much grace talk will lead to sin. But the solution is not to reintroduce the law as a threat. The solution is to preach the gospel so clearly that hearts are melted into joyful obedience.

The apostle emphasizes that we do not silence the foolishness of the world by shouting louder or by engaging in hostile opposition. Instead, we silence it by submitting to God’s authority, by living lives of honor, love, and reverence. open.substack.com/pub/marrowwoke…

God's love is not reactive. It is not sentimental. It is not ignited by some spark in you. It is eternal, because it flows from who He is.

I don’t have enough faith. I don’t have enough strength. But I do have a Savior who is enough.

So why do we hold to the Regulative Principle? Because we love the church. Because we honor the Lord’s Day. Because we want Christ. Because we believe God knows best how He should be worshiped.

In many churches, the Lord’s Day has become man’s day. Man’s agenda. Man’s feelings. Man’s response. But the Lord’s Day is His. He calls. He speaks. He feeds. He sends. And we respond in reverence and joy.

“Special music” often replaces congregational singing with performance. But the gathered church isn’t an audience. It’s a choir of redeemed sinners, singing to one another and to God (Col. 3:16).

Worship doesn’t climax in an altar call. It climaxes at the Table. Not in your decision for Christ, but in Christ’s decision for you. “This is my body, given for you.”

I hear the words of love, I gaze upon the blood, I see the mighty sacrifice, And I have peace with God. ‘Tis everlasting peace, Sure as Jehovah’s name; ‘Tis stable as His steadfast throne, Forevermore the same. The clouds may come and go, And storms may sweep my sky— This…

God is love. So his love doesn’t evolve. It simply is. And therefore, it simply abides.

"Christ died for the sins of Christians, too." - Rod Rosenbladt

You don’t go to church to prove your devotion. You go because you’re weak. Because you need grace. Because Jesus meets sinners on the Lord's Day.

The devil doesn’t tremble at your private devotion. But he hates the gathered church.

To the One with a Tender Conscience: You notice every flaw. You feel every failure. You repent, then repent for not repenting well enough. You worry your sin is worse because you knew better. You assume silence from God must mean disappointment. And you’ve wondered if maybe…