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For All The Saints

Sean Morris
Nov 9, 2022
Editor’s Note: This post has been adapted from a longer article set to be published in a forthcoming edition of the Puritan Reformed Journal. For most professing Christians in modern North America, Cyprian's dictum —“No one can have God for his Father, who does not have the Church for his mother”—...

No Christianity without the Church

Sean Morris
Oct 5, 2022
Editor’s Note: This post has been adapted from a longer article set to be published in a forthcoming edition of the Puritan Reformed Journal. It will come as little surprise to many readers on this site that the state of theology in the contemporary North American church is fraught with weakness...

In Praise of Christian Friendship

Sean Morris
Aug 15, 2022
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom... A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother . — Proverbs 18: 1, 24 (KJV) I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship lately. I think about how...

Venite Adoremus: The Creedal Hymnody of Christmastide

Sean Morris
Dec 16, 2021
I realize that there is a spectrum of opinion and conviction amongst the readership of Ref21. There are those in the Reformed orbit who are entirely opposed to singing hymns in corporate worship, to say nothing of any sort of acknowledgment of anything even vaguely approximating the liturgical...

Benefits of Theological Education in the Local Church

Sean Morris
May 26, 2018
In the previous post , we considered the rationale behind a local church model of theological education. In this post, we want to turn our attention to five potential benefits of such a church-based theological education model: In-person instruction, mentoring, and discipleship. There is much to be...

Theological Education and the Local Church

Sean Morris
May 7, 2018
Theological poverty is rampant in the majority of the Western Church today. North American evangelical/Protestant churches are suffering an endemic deficiency with regard to biblical and theological understanding. This is no new assessment,1 and the consequences to our spiritual health have been...