top of page
PREPARING FUTURE PASTORS, CHURCH PLANTERS, AND MISSIONARIES TO SHEPHERD GOD'S FLOCK TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND FOR THE GOOD OF HIS PEOPLE
PASTORAL APPRENTICESHIP
PROGRAM
THE APPRENTICESHIP STORY
Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 18, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 34.1
James does not contradict Paul on faith and works. He teaches that the kind of faith that saves is a faith that works.
37 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 15, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 33.3
False teachers always add mediators alongside Christ and thus subtract from the glory of his saving work.
31 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 13, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 33.2
Christ alone is our hope for salvation, and thus we must beware of adding anything to the gospel.
21 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 11, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 33.1
Can we rely partly on God's grace and partly on our own efforts for salvation? Absolutely not.
26 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 8, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 32.3
Sanctification is essential to our salvation. Without holiness, we would not be fit for Heaven.
41 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 6, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 32.2
Our justification is a sharing in Christ's death and resurrection as the final judgment brought forward into history.
35 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 4, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 32.1
Salvation affects both our standing with God and our personal condition. Both elements are necessary.
28 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 1, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 31.3
The third section of the Apostles' Creed moves from the accomplishment of Christ's saving work to its application to us by the Holy Spirit.
29 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 30, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 31.2
The middle section of the Apostles' Creed gives us a basic summary of the gospel story.
40 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 28, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 31.1
Without a clear, biblical doctrine of creation, the gospel makes no sense.
40 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 24, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 30.3
Saving faith includes knowledge and assent, but if it stops there it is no better than what demons have.
54 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 23, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 30.2
If we do not believe that the gospel is a true account of historical events, we cannot have saving faith. Faith requires assent to truth.
32 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 21, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 30.1
Saving faith begins with knowledge, which entails that the preaching of the gospel is necessary for salvation.
22 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 18, 20201 min read
New City Catechism 29.3
God demands absolute perfection, and in Christ, that is exactly what we have.
31 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 16, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 29.2
Be careful not to present the gospel in a way that makes it sound like we must reform our ways before we come to Christ.
35 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 14, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 29.1
Conversion involves the two inseparable acts of repenting from sin and turning to Jesus Christ in faith.
27 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 11, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 28.3
If hell is real, then it must motivate us to want to share the good news of Christ with all who will listen.
22 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 9, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 28.2
Is the doctrine of hell really necessary to the Christian faith?
31 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 7, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 28.1
What are the "books" in Revelation 20:12? And what does "the book of life" represent?
43 views0 comments
Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 4, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 27.3
Until the day of final judgment, God shows grace in many ways to believers and unbelievers alike.
48 views0 comments
Home: Blog2
Home: Subscribe
SUBSCRIBE TO THE BLOG!
DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS FOR US?
Home: Contact
bottom of page