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Q & A - Topical Index12 Articles of Faith: 01/11/2004 Abortion: 04/13/2008 11/07/2009 Absent from the Body: 06/20/2004 10/10/2010 Addiction: Sin or Disease?: 09/11/2011 Adultery and Forgiveness: 02/01/2004 Advance Directives for Health Care: 11/21/2009 Age Requirements for Lord's Supper: 04/10/2010 Alcoholic Beverages: 10/28/2007 Altar Cloths: 11/27/2011 Anglicans taking Communion in an OPC: 12/02/2002 Animals' Role in Life: 02/06/2010 Apocrypha and Purgatory: 12/14/2003 Apostles today: 03/10/2003 Apostles' Creed: 03/23/2008 Apostolic Healing Services Revisited: 06/19/2005 12/26/2004 Apostolic Succession and the Roman Catholic Church: 05/30/2004 Apparent Contradiction in Scripture?: 10/17/2004 Are all sins equal in God's eyes?: 03/13/2011 Arminianism: 05/20/2007 Ash Wednesday: 08/21/2005 Assemblies of God: 06/30/2003 Associate Pastors: 01/23/2011 Assurance of Salvation: 04/24/2010 05/22/2011 12/23/2012 Attire in Worship Services: 03/20/2011 Authors of Answers: 04/02/2006 Authorship of the Gospels: 08/26/2007 Baptism and Circumcision: 03/14/2004 08/19/2012 09/02/2012 Baptism of covenant children: 02/17/2003 02/05/2012 12/16/2012 Baptismal Regeneration: 08/06/2006 Baptists and evangelism: 09/12/2010 Baptists and the OPC: 12/16/2007 Baptizing Children of Non-Members: 05/28/2006 Bible Presbyterian Church: 01/13/2008 Bible Translations: 08/14/2005 Bible Versions: 05/18/2008 12/05/2009 03/25/2012 10/24/2009 Biblical Forgiveness: 02/20/2010 Biblical Theology: 08/05/2007 Binding and loosing: 02/26/2012 Birth Control: 07/03/2005 09/28/2003 Blood and organ donation: 11/21/2010 Blood of Jesus: 10/31/2004 Body, Soul and Spirit: 05/01/2010 Business Partnerships with Unbelievers: 08/12/2007 Calvin and Servetus: 09/16/2012 Calvinism and Reformed Denominations: 03/20/2005 Calvinism vs. Hyper-Calvinism: 03/03/2003 02/10/2008 Can Catholics Be Christians?: 02/05/2006 Can Christians own luxuries?: 03/31/2013 Capital Punishment: 04/06/2008 Capitalization of pronouns referring to God: 04/04/2004 Caring for the pastor: 05/04/2008 Carry your cross: 01/27/2003 Catholic vs. Presbyterian: 03/28/2004 Charge to a Congregation: 01/23/2005 Charismata: 01/20/2003 Chastening by the Lord: 02/03/2008 Children's Church: 03/16/2008 Children: are they an obligation?: 03/21/2004 Christ's Atonement: 01/20/2008 06/19/2011 Christ's descent into hell: 04/22/2007 Christian Condolence to a Non-Christian: 04/23/2006 Christian counseling or psychology: 07/15/2012 Christian Lifestyle: 07/22/2007 Christian marriage: 05/11/2008 Christian Reformed Church: 11/30/2003 Christian Schools: 07/15/2007 Christian Singles: 06/10/2007 Christian View of Contraception: 07/03/2005 09/28/2003 Christmas and the Regulative Principle: 01/25/2004 11/25/2002 12/18/2005 Christmas celebration: 01/25/2004 11/25/2002 12/18/2005 Christmas star in Matthew 2: 12/30/2012 Church Attendance: 07/17/2011 Church building uses: 09/30/2012 Church business meetings on Sunday: 04/30/2006 Church discipline: 11/16/2003 Church fund raising: 05/08/2011 Church membership materials: 12/02/2007 Church unity: 01/06/2008 Clerical Titles: 02/27/2010 01/06/2013 Close Relationship with God: 04/24/2005 Collecting the offering: 10/21/2012 Coming from other denominations: 11/09/2003 Common Grace, Well-Intentioned Offer, etc.: 11/14/2004 Communion: 05/15/2005 01/18/2004 12/31/2006 05/25/2008 Communion and Bible Studies: 01/18/2004 12/31/2006 05/15/2005 Communion and Christ's Body: 05/15/2005 01/18/2004 12/31/2006 Communion of Saints: 01/04/2004 Confession: 08/01/2010 Contraception: 07/03/2005 09/28/2003 Covenant Theology and the OPC: 10/07/2007 10/31/2009 Covert Missions: 12/25/2005 Creation of Man in Genesis: 04/16/2006 Creation: length of days: 03/31/2003 Creationism vs. Traducianism: 12/03/2006 Cremation: 11/14/2009 Criteria of Biblical Canon: 02/12/2012 Cross-denominational Baptism: 09/21/2003 Crosses in the sanctuary: 03/04/2012 Crucifixes: 03/24/2013 Da Vinci Code: 08/20/2006 Deaconesses: 08/07/2005 07/22/2012 Deaconesses: 08/07/2005 Deadly weapons: 02/03/2013 Deborah's Leadership Position: 10/16/2005 Deceiving Pharaoh: 11/26/2006 Demon Possession: 10/16/2011 Denominations and Christian Truth: 06/05/2005 04/17/2010 Denominations, Reformed: 03/20/2005 04/22/2012 Did David Pray for Grace?: 09/17/2006 Did God Make My Son Homosexual: 11/18/2007 Dietary laws in O.T.: 03/06/2011 Differences between Presbyterian denominations: 04/22/2012 Differing with WCF: 05/23/2010 Dinosaurs: Discerning the Will of God: 12/04/2005 Divinity of Jesus: 03/13/2010 Divorce and Christian Service: 06/03/2007 09/02/2007 Divorce and Remarriage: 06/03/2007 09/02/2007 07/11/2010 Does God desire that everyone be saved?: 01/13/2013 Does God have emotions?: 12/09/2012 Does God Love Everyone?: 05/14/2006 02/11/2007 Does OPC reject evolution?: 01/23/2010 Does the OPC say the Lord's Prayer?: 06/06/2010 Double Predestination: 01/28/2007 Early Christians and the Eucharist: 05/15/2005 Easter Eggs: 04/08/2012 Eastern Orthodoxy: 06/15/2008 Elders' Authority: 08/19/2007 04/01/2012 Elements in the Lord's Supper: 09/04/2005 04/24/2011 End Times Bible Prophecy: 05/06/2007 English Standard Version (ESV): 08/14/2005 Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses: 02/19/2006 Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the OPC: 05/26/2003 Evangelism by the OPC: 08/29/2004 Evangelism without Decisional Regeneration: 03/13/2005 Evening Worship Service: 11/11/2007 Evil: 05/01/2005 Fake Christians and Worldly Benefits: 01/07/2007 Family Roles: 04/18/2004 Family Worship: 09/09/2007 Fasting: 02/12/2006 Fencing the table: 10/07/2012 Fitting in at an OPC: 06/13/2010 Flags in the sanctuary: 07/04/2010 Forgiveness: 05/16/2010 10/03/2010 Free Will and Predestination: 04/27/2008 Freemasonry: 02/18/2008 Future of Christianity: 10/09/2011 Gender changes in the NIV: 10/24/2009 03/25/2012 Gender of God: 06/17/2012 Genealogies of Jesus: 03/19/2006 Geology and revelation: 11/20/2011 Geology vs. revelation: 11/20/2011 Gift of Teaching: 10/24/2010 God's Chosen People and the Holocaust: 06/17/2007 God's Judgment and Hurricane Katrina: 10/09/2005 God's nature: 07/10/2005 Godparents: 11/28/2009 01/16/2011 12/02/2012 Going to Church: 03/05/2006 Good Non-Christian People?: 12/05/2004 Gospel: 06/13/2004 Gospel in the Stars: 07/07/2003 Gospel Ministry: 09/26/2010 Grace: 05/21/2006 Grief: Is It a Sin?: 11/21/2004 Hades, Meaning of Sheol and: 01/30/2005 Halloween: 05/30/2010 Handling offerings: 10/17/2010 Harold Camping: 05/12/2003 Have I been called to pastoral ministry?: 03/10/2013 Head Coverings: 04/29/2007 Heaven: 07/04/2004 Hebrews 10:29 and the Blood of the Covenant: 03/06/2005 Heidelberg Catechism and Westminster Standards: 09/05/2004 Heidelberg Catechism Teacher's Guide: 02/18/2007 Hermeneutic Used by OPC: 12/10/2006 Hispanics in the OPC: 11/18/2006 Historic Premillennialism and Dispensationalism: 01/13/2003 10/31/2009 Holocaust: 08/08/2004 Home Bible Studies: 09/18/2011 Homosexuality and gay marriages: 06/06/2004 12/26/2010 05/13/2012 Hostile academic environments: 12/26/2010 How Can a Loving God Condemn?: 11/07/2004 How to Be Saved: 11/18/2012 Hunting animals: 01/20/2013 Illegal Immigrants: 01/02/2010 Importance of church membership: 04/29/2012 Importance of Preaching: 01/16/2010 In vitro and artificial insemination: 10/26/2003 In Vitro Fertilization: 07/23/2006 10/26/2003 Incarnation's Purpose: 08/11/2003 Incorporating Churches: 10/12/2003 Infant Baptism: 11/18/2002 01/01/2006 09/04/2011 Infant Baptism - age: 06/25/2006 11/07/2010 Infant baptism and John's Baptism of Jesus: 03/27/2005 Intelligent Design: 06/18/2006 Intermetiate state after death: 10/10/2010 Interracial marriage: 02/17/2013 Is 1 John 5:7 in original scripture?: 08/29/2010 Is a Wedding a Worship Service?: 12/19/2009 Is Jesus the angel of the Lord?: 09/05/2010 Is righteousness "imputed" or "reckoned" to us?: 05/20/2012 Is there hope for America's wicked society?: 11/04/2012 J. 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Packer: 01/15/2012 James 4:5: 04/03/2005 Jeremiah/Zechariah Resolution: 02/20/2005 Jesus as Mary's First-Born: 05/22/2005 John's Baptism of Jesus: 03/27/2005 Joining the Catholic Church: 11/11/2012 Joining the OPC: 09/19/2010 Judaism: 01/29/2012 Just Wars: 06/20/2010 Justification: 02/13/2005 07/29/2012 Kenneth Hagin and Word of Faith Movement: 12/12/2004 King James Version: 04/28/2003 Law As Means of Grace: 01/15/2006 Law in Old and New Covenant: 12/11/2005 Laying On of Hands at Ordination: 07/24/2005 LC 109: why was it changed?: 05/06/2012 Leaving a Church Fellowship: 09/14/2003 05/27/2007 Leaving another denomination for Presbyterian: 02/24/2013 Leaving the PCUSA: 02/08/2004 Lent: should we observe it?: 03/06/2010 Letters on the Cross: 08/28/2005 Limited atonement: 12/30/2007 Liturgical Year: 12/26/2009 Long hair on men: 11/06/2011 Lord's Supper: 01/18/2004 05/15/2005 12/31/2006 10/02/2011 Lord's Supper: 07/03/2011 10/02/2011 04/29/2012 11/27/2011 08/13/2006 09/02/2012 Lord's Supper and Catholics: 03/17/2003 Losing Salvation: 10/31/2010 Lotteries and Gambling: 02/26/2006 Luke 14:33 and "Giving Up Everything": 03/18/2007 Lutheran vs. Reformed: 02/27/2005 Lutheranism and Limited Atonement: 06/08/2008 Lutherans and Presbyterians: 02/25/2008 Machen, J. Gresham: 01/16/2005 04/10/2011 Making restitution: 03/11/2012 Man's Chief End and the Unsaved: 06/02/2003 Mark of the beast: 01/27/2013 Marks of the True Church: 05/02/2004 03/17/2013 Marriage with a Roman Catholic: 05/23/2004 Martial arts: 08/14/2011 Mary's death and burial: 10/14/2012 Mary: the Mother of God?: 12/28/2003 Matt. 25:31-46 and good works: 08/22/2010 Matt. 7:7-11: 06/05/2011 Maximum Age of a Baptized Child: 06/25/2006 Meaning of "Altar": 08/13/2006 Meaning of Orthodox: 01/09/2005 01/02/2005 09/26/2004 Meaning of Sheol and Hades: 01/30/2005 Mel Gibson's movie The Passion: 02/22/2004 Membership in the OPC: 12/05/2010 12/12/2010 06/03/2012 Memorial Pictures on Church Bulletins: 05/29/2005 Men Under Care: 07/14/2003 Military Chaplaincy: 12/12/2009 Military service: 06/20/2010 Millennial views: 04/20/2008 Ministers: Voting and Membership: 03/26/2006 Mission Philosophy: OPC & PCA: 07/28/2003 Missions: 01/02/2011 Mode of baptism: 03/03/2003 01/08/2012 Modern Medical Questions: 10/26/2003 Music in Worship: 05/05/2003 Muslim View of Jesus' Crucifixion: 10/03/2004 Muslims: descended from Esau?: 02/04/2007 Narnia Stories of C.S. Lewis: 05/07/2006 National Israel: 01/01/2012 04/15/2012 Near death experiences: 11/25/2012 New International Version (NIV): 08/14/2005 New Perspective on Paul: 03/12/2006 New Testament: Word of God?: 10/23/2005 Nicene Creed: 08/08/2010 One little word in A Mighty Fortress: 05/09/2004 OPC and Calvinism: 08/15/2010 OPC Controversies and GA Reports: 02/15/2004 OPC Distinctives: 12/09/2002 OPC General Assembly: 06/26/2011 Open Theism: 09/14/2003 Ordination in the OPC: 09/10/2006 Ordination of elders: 04/07/2003 Original Sin: 05/08/2005 Original sin and immaculate conception: 09/09/2012 Orthodox Revisited - Part 1: 01/09/2005 01/02/2005 Orthodox Revisited - Part 2: 01/09/2005 01/02/2005 Orthodox Revisited - Part 3: 01/16/2005 01/09/2005 01/02/2005 Orthodox: Meaning in OPC: 01/09/2005 01/02/2005 09/26/2004 Owning the Truth: 04/17/2010 06/05/2005 Paedocommunion: 06/04/2006 02/27/2011 Parachurch Ministries: 09/03/2006 Parents' vows: 09/04/2011 Pastor's income: 08/05/2012 Pastoral Prayer: 11/28/2004 Pastors: Voting and Membership: 03/26/2006 Paul the Pharisee: 02/19/2012 Peace About It: 05/09/2010 Pictures of Christ: 03/17/2003 02/06/2011 Place of Pulpit and Table: 08/18/2003 Pledge of Allegiance: 01/09/2010 Polygamy: 11/11/2006 Polygamy in other countries: 02/20/2011 Prayer "for Jesus' Sake": 08/27/2006 Prayers of Unbelievers: 09/23/2007 Praying with unbelievers: 12/19/2010 Predestination and Irresistible Grace: 11/04/2002 Preparation for the Lord's Supper: 02/13/2010 Presbyterian Beliefs: 07/25/2004 Presbyterian Church Government: 10/21/2007 Presbyterian Church in America: 01/06/2003 07/28/2003 Presbyterian Church USA: 06/16/2003 Presbyterianism: 06/27/2004 07/10/2011 Presbyterians and the Virgin Birth: 04/09/2006 Prison Evangelism: 01/22/2006 Producing Fruit: 03/20/2010 Profession of faith: 05/29/2011 Protestant Reformed Church and the Free Offer: 08/15/2004 Protestant Saints: 07/31/2005 Psalm 150 set to music: 02/25/2007 Psalmody: 12/16/2002 Pulpit Committees: 01/30/2010 Purgatory and good works: 03/02/2008 Race relations perspective in the OPC: 03/30/2008 Rapture and Left Behind: 05/19/2003 04/03/2011 Reaching young people: 06/27/2010 Red Sea Crossing: 07/11/2004 Reformed Baptists: 08/19/2012 Reformed Christianity v. Atheism: 04/21/2013 Reformed Church in America: 04/21/2003 Reformed Distinctives: 09/25/2011 01/30/2011 10/23/2011 Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America: 05/16/2004 Reformed View of Original Sin: 05/08/2005 10/23/2011 Refusing to baptise one's children: 12/16/2012 Regulative Principle of Worship: 08/04/2003 07/18/2010 07/24/2011 Relationship with God: 04/24/2005 Remarriage: 04/11/2004 Repentance: 05/13/2007 Restaurants on the Sabbath: 11/04/2007 Revelation: Is It Completed?: 09/19/2004 06/10/2012 Robes in Worship: 11/23/2003 Roman Catholicism: 09/11/2005 06/12/2011 Roman Catholicism and "Sacred Tradition": 12/17/2006 Roman Catholics joining the OPC: 09/11/2005 06/03/2012 Romans 1:20: 04/03/2005 Ruth as Covenant Member: 06/26/2005 Sabbath Day Change: 09/25/2005 09/18/2005 10/02/2005 Saints: 07/31/2005 Salvation of Infants Who Die: 02/29/2004 07/08/2012 Salvation of the Elect: 04/25/2004 Salvation: Can It Be Lost?: 10/24/2004 Sanctification: 11/25/2007 Santa Claus and Truth: 01/25/2004 11/25/2002 12/18/2005 Secret Societies: 11/14/2010 Seder: should Christians celebrate?: 07/17/2005 Seminary: 03/09/2008 Seminary Choice: 12/24/2006 Serving communion to the sick: 12/23/2002 Session Confidentiality: 04/03/2010 Seventh-Day Adventists: 06/10/2006 Sexual Morality: 02/06/2005 07/18/2004 Sexual Sin: 07/25/2010 Sheol and Hades: 01/30/2005 Short-term missions: 01/02/2011 Should entertainments be avoided?: 03/27/2011 Shrove Tuesday: 02/03/2003 Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday: 08/21/2005 Shunning the excommunicated: 12/11/2011 Slain in the Spirit: 07/30/2006 Small groups: 12/25/2011 Sola Fide (only faith): 07/29/2012 Soul and Spirit: 10/30/2011 Spanking Children: 08/31/2003 Speaking in tongues: 04/14/2003 05/01/2011 Special and General Revelation: 11/20/2011 Starting a new OP Church: 09/30/2007 Study Bible: 09/07/2003 Suicide: 11/13/2011 Suicide: 11/13/2011 Sunday School Teachers: 12/21/2003 03/18/2012 Supporting non-reformed agencies: 08/28/2011 Taming the Tongue: 10/10/2004 06/24/2012 Tattoos: 08/25/2003 01/08/2006 08/12/2012 Teaching our daughters: 08/26/2012 Teaching our daughters: 08/26/2012 Tenebrae & Maundy Thursday Services: 03/02/2013 Thank Offering After Communion: 12/19/2004 Theonomy and the OPC: 12/07/2003 Tithing: 06/09/2003 Tithing with debt: Total Depravity: 10/23/2011 Translation of "homosexual" in 1 Cor. 6:9: 05/13/2012 Transubstantiation: 01/27/2008 Trinity: 09/12/2004 07/31/2011 Trinity Hymnal: 04/17/2011 12/04/2011 Trinity Hymnal: 04/17/2011 Trinity Hymnal - different words: 11/28/2010 12/04/2011 True Church and the OPC: 12/09/2007 TULIP and predestination: 11/04/2002 TV Apostolic Healing Services: 06/19/2005 12/26/2004 Universal Atonement: 02/13/2011 Unpardonable sin: 12/23/2007 Value of the Westminster Standards: 06/12/2005 Verichip and the mark of the beast: 01/27/2013 Virgin Mary: 05/22/2005 Visions: 01/09/2011 War and "You Shall Not Murder": 08/22/2004 Wayward children: 03/24/2003 Wearing jewelry and wigs: 01/22/2012 Were the Apostles (Re-)Baptized?: 10/01/2006 Wesleyan view of sanctification: 02/24/2003 Westminster Confession of Faith - Edition Used: 03/07/2004 Westminster Confession of Faith Study Guide: 09/16/2007 Westminster Standards: 06/12/2005 What is the church "for"?: 09/23/2012 When Was the Church Established?: 01/29/2006 Who created religion?: 08/07/2011 08/21/2011 Why wasn't Mary's sin passed on to Jesus?: 04/28/2013 Wine or Grape Juice: 02/10/2003 07/01/2012 Withdrawing from the OPC: 11/02/2003 Women in prayer meetings: 10/28/2012 Women Missionaries: 08/01/2004 07/22/2012 Women Teaching Men: 10/05/2003 03/18/2012 Women Teaching Women: 07/21/2003 Women Ushers: 04/10/2005 Worshiping with Arminians: 05/27/2012 Zechariah 14: 1-21: 05/15/2011 |
