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"Jonathan Edwards - The Agony of Christ in the Garden" Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org .

This episode addresses the following questions: How do we die to sin? What does it mean to die to sin? When do we die to sin? What is the result of dying to sin? What is our practical duty as a result of dying to sin?

In this episode, our cohosts answer the following questions: How would you describe a true church of Christ? What are some of the characteristics that identify a true church? What suggestions would you give to someone who doesn’t live within the range of a true church?

The seven bowls of God's wrath | Ron Miller | Preaching & Teaching Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org .

Since I have called Anne’s letter writing her most important and best work, I want to give you a few samples. These were written approximately 275 years ago. So the language and style are different. Some social conventions have dramatically changed. But her grasp of Scripture and her heart of concern and love for God’s people still reach across the years to our profit. Covenant Baptist Theological...

"Signs of Spiritual Melancholy, From the Book A Treatise on Spiritual Comfort - 1814" Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org .

"Definitive sanctification is simply another way of referring to that basic and radical change that takes place in a sinner’s moral and ethical condition when he is united to Christ in effectual calling and regeneration. It reminds us of the fact that progressive sanctification does not take place in a vacuum. It presupposes effectual calling, regeneration, union with Christ and even justification...

In this episode titled "Church Discipline," our cohosts answer the following questions: What is church discipline? What is the difference between instructive or formative discipline and corrective discipline? Where do we see church discipline practiced in Scripture? What pastoral advice would you give when the time comes to apply corrective discipline?

After considering the apologetic methodology of B.B. Warfield and Abraham Kuyper, Dr. Waldron explains the apologetic approach of Cornelius Van Til. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org .

Anne’s view of the nature of baptism is high, historically confessional, and Scriptural. This Particular Baptist woman used Reformed, puritan, and Baptist terminology in a time when non or anti-sacramentalism was growing. And so she can be a help to us today. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help...

"Gleanings from the Inner Life of Ruth Bryan - Diary for 1823-1829" Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org .

Here is a question that was submitted to the Inbox: In light of the podcast on church membership, I wanted to suggest a related topic. Someone recently tweeted that a church does not have multiple sites. Basically decrying the mega-church, a multi-campus model where sermons are telecast. I agree there are problems with the model, but it seems a stretch to say it is not a "church" when ultimately t...

While giving an overview of the history of apologetics, Dr. Waldron contrasts the apologetic methodology of B.B. Warfield and Abraham Kuyper. This lecture comes from a course at CBTS titled "Introduction to Systematic Theology and Apologetics." Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in i...

Anne Dutton’s “Thoughts on the Lord’s Supper” is a wonderful piece of doctrine and devotion. Her view of the Table retains the richness of the predominant Particular Baptist understanding of the Supper from the previous century. She is very much a baptized puritan in her perspectives and practice. There is no mere remembering an absent Christ here! Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confes...

"Something Must Be Done, New Years Sermon, 1816, The Brick Church in New York City." Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org .

In this devotional walk of the 2LCF, Sam Waldron covers 1689 13:3 "Of Sanctification."   The distinctives of genuine sanctification must be balanced with the other distinctive of progressive sanctification. It is described in paragraph 3. That distinctive is progress in grace.   For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

As a follow-up to the previous episode on Pastoral Oversight Meetings, our cohosts give some practical advice about facilitating a meeting of this sort.

While giving an overview of the history of apologetics, Dr. Waldron contrasts the apologetic methodology of B.B. Warfield and Abraham Kuyper. This lecture comes from a course at CBTS titled "Introduction to Systematic Theology and Apologetics." Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in i...

"Anne Dutton also wrote against Sandemanianism and its antinomianism. Her work on this was fifty years ahead of Andrew Fuller’s more thorough and famous work against it. However, her short letters must have been useful to some against this confusing distortion of saving faith." Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological...

Thoughts on the Present Asbury Revival - Definition of Revivals - William Hetherington - 1840" Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org .

In this devotional walk of the 2LCF, Sam Waldron covers 1689 13:2-3 "Of Sanctification."   We saw last time that paragraph provides a summary description of sanctification. Paragraphs 2 and 3 which conclude this chapter take up the peculiar distinctives of progressive sanctification.   Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable...

In this episode of the Pastor's Inbox titled "Pastoral Oversight Meetings," our cohosts answer questions like: What is pastoral oversight? Does your eldership do pastoral visitation or oversight meetings? Does Scripture address this – and if so, where?

This sermon was preached by Pastor John Miller of Grace Baptist Church from Ezekiel 14:12-23. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org .

As a writer in the middle 1700s, Anne Dutton had several personal advantages. First, her maturity was well known to her acquaintances. She began writing for an audience in her early 40s by which time she displayed both spiritual and theological sobriety. She didn’t write about trivialities; she was always orthodox. God used her upbringing, diligent personal study, and connections with sound pastor...

John Owen - Of The Dominion of Sin and Grace Chapter 5" Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org .