Reform-Shire - Restore the Heart of the Church - Romans 1:16 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
Did Not Our Hearts Burn Within Us?
Church - Return To Being Gospel Centered
Tuesday, September 01, 2026
Monday, August 31, 2026
Saturday, August 29, 2026
Friday, August 21, 2026
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
The Apostle Paul Was Fearless
The Apostle Paul Was Fearless
This is what made the Apostle Paul absolutely FEARLESS when it came to boldly sharing the Gospel. Every Christian needs to get this: "Heads I win, tails you lose."
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Spurgeon and the Down-Grade Controversy
Excerpted from Ashamed of the Gospel © 1992 by John F. MacArthur, Jr. (Wheaton: Crossway). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
[At the end of the Puritan age] by some means or other, first the ministers, then the Churches, got on "the down grade," and in some cases, the descent was rapid, and in all, very disastrous. In proportion as the ministers seceded from the old Puritan godliness of life, and the old Calvinistic form of doctrine, they commonly became less earnest and less simple in their preaching, more speculative and less spiritual in the matter of their discourses, and dwelt more on the moral teachings of the New Testament, than on the great central truths of revelation. Natural theology frequently took the place which the great truths of the gospel ought to have held, and the sermons became more and more Christless. Corresponding results in the character and life, first of the preachers and then of the people, were only too plainly apparent.
The Sword and the Trowel [1]
"Down Grade" I
In that first article, Shindler recounted the history of the major protestant denominations in England since the beginning of Puritanism's decline in 1662. He noted that in the first generation after the Puritan era, virtually every non-conformist (non-Anglican Protestant) denomination in England drifted from orthodoxy toward an ancient form of theological liberalism called Socinianism. Shindler recounted how hundreds of post-Puritan churches had abandoned sound doctrine in favor of rationalistic skepticism, Unitarianism, and other liberal beliefs. The downward slide usually began slowly, almost imperceptibly. He suggested that denominations often "got on the down-grade" when they abandoned Calvinism (which emphasizes God's sovereignty in salvation) in favor of Arminianism (which makes human will the decisive factor). Other groups embraced Arianism (which denies the full deity of Christ). Still others simply became enamored with scholarship and worldly wisdom; consequently they lost their zeal for truth."The Presbyterians were the first to get on the down line," Shindler wrote. They took the route of worldly wisdom: "They paid more attention to classical attainments and other branches of learning. . . . It [was therefore] an easy step in the wrong direction to pay increased attention to academical attainments in their ministers, and less to spiritual qualifications; and to set a higher value on scholarship and oratory, than on evangelical zeal and ability to rightly divide the word of truth."[3]Shindler further stated:As is usual with people on an incline, some who got on "the down grade" went further than they intended, showing that it is easier to get on than to get off, and that where there is no brake it is very difficult to stop. Those who turned from Calvinism may not have dreamed of denying the proper deity of the Son of God, renouncing faith in his atoning death and justifying righteousness, and denouncing the doctrine of human depravity, the need of Divine renewal, and the necessity for the Holy Spirit's gracious work, in order that men might become new creatures; but, dreaming or not dreaming, this result became a reality.[4]
Some who abandoned the faith did so openly, Shindler said. But many purposely concealed their skepticism and heresy, preferring to sow seeds of doubt while posing as orthodox believers. "These men deepened their own condemnation, and promoted the everlasting ruin of many of their followers by their hypocrisy and deceit; professing to be the ambassadors of Christ, and the heralds of his glorious gospel, their aim was to ignore his claims, deny him his rights, lower his character, rend the glorious vesture of his salvation, and trample his crown in the dust."[5]
Many of those who remained true to the faith were nevertheless reluctant to fight for what they believed in. Evangelical preaching was often cold and lifeless, and even those who held to sound doctrine were careless about where they drew the line in their associations with others: "Those who were really orthodox in their sentiments were too often lax and unfaithful as to the introduction of heretical ministers into their pulpits, either as assistants or occasional preachers. In this way the Arian and Socinian heresies were introduced into the Presbyterian congregations in the city of Exeter."[6]Thus within only a few decades, the Puritan fervor that had so captured the soul of England gave way to dry, listless apostate teaching. Churches became lax in granting membership privileges to the unregenerate. People who were, in Shindler's words, "strangers to the work of renewing grace" nevertheless claimed to be Christians and were admitted to membership—even leadership—in the churches. These people "chose them pastors after their own hearts, men who could, and would, and did, cry 'Peace, peace,' when the only way of peace was ignored or denied."[7]Shindler concluded that first paper on "The Down Grade" with these words: "These facts furnish a lesson for the present times, when, as in some cases, it is all too plainly apparent men are willing to forego the old for the sake of the new. But commonly it is found in theology that that which is true is not new, and that which is new is not true."[8]
Friday, August 14, 2026
Thursday, August 13, 2026
John 8 - What Did Jesus Write in The Ground?
Core Christianity
What was Jesus writing in the ground when the Pharisees and scribes tried to accuse the woman caught in adultery? Pastor Adriel Sanchez discusses the passage of Jesus writing on the ground and how the Pharisees rejected him. Instead of their names being written in the Book of Life, they were written in the dust.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Sunday, August 09, 2026
Genesis Vs. The Gods
Michael Horton, Walter Strickland, Bob Hiller, and Justin Holcomb survey one of the most consequential books in the history of the world: The book of Genesis. They examine how its theological themes confronted the myths and gods of its own time, and explore how it confronts modernity's myths as well.
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Saturday, August 08, 2026
Friday, August 07, 2026
Submission
“Submission” isn’t about inferiority. Pastor Adriel Sanchez addresses misconceptions around what it means for wives to “submit yourselves to your husbands, as to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:22).
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Did Not Our Hearts Burn? (Luke 24)
“Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?”
Here we find the two disciples walking along the road, hearts heavy, faces long.
Jesus comes along side them as they do not recognize who He is.
Chorus.
Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked to us on the road? Did not our hearts burn within us, while he opened to us the scriptures?
“O foolish ones,
slow of heart to believe
all that the prophets have spoken.
Was it not necessary
that the Christ should suffer these things
and enter into His glory?”
Chorus.
Did not our hearts burn within us? While he talked to us on the road,
Did not our hearts burn within us? While he opened to us the scriptures?
So Jesus beginning with Moses and all the prophets,
He opened the scriptures, showing the things that testify to himself.
(Bridge)
He took the bread,
He blessed it,
He broke it,
He gave it to them.
Praise the Lord,
Their eyes were opened.
Praise the Lord
they Suddenly recognized him.
Praise the Lord
As He vanished from their sight.
Chorus
Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked to us on the road?
Did not our hearts burn within us, while he opened to us the scriptures?
Chorus
Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked to us on the road?
Did not our hearts burn within us, while he opened to us the scriptures?
Did not our hearts burn?
Did not our hearts…
Burn
Oooooh ooooh
Do
our Hearts burn?
Do our hearts burn?
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Reform-Shire Music By Chris MondoBeyondo
As a child growing up attending church with my parents and brothers
I also attended my friend's churches and I was learning a lot about scripture and memorizing verses.
But, when I attended Bible Camp we sang many passages of scripture and those passages stayed with me the rest of my life and no matter what or where I was I could always sing and remember those words.
In my heart and in my mind all the time.
2 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
(Colossians 3:12–17, ESV)
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