St. Boniface House

I think I mentioned when the S. family joined Trinity Covenant that I have had the privilege of witnessing and/or participating in every single one of their baptisms—an early memory of mine is of my baby sister being baptized as an infant at the Presbyterian church in Warrensburg, Missouri.  And then I had the privilege of witnessing the baptisms of Jason and his sons when we were all attending Evangel together.  And by the Lord’s grace I was privileged to be the Pastor when little Dassah was baptized.  And now here we are again.  But as wonderful as all that is, it is very, very important for us to remember that as valuable and as necessary and as delightful as our family ties are, what we have come here this morning to witness and participate in and rejoice over is the formation of a very different set of family ties.  (more…)

  Introduction: Why a Book of Confessions?

We are a confessional church. All this means is that we acknowledge the value and necessity of making systematic statements about what the Scripture teaches and what we believe. It is, of course, impossible not to have a confession. Those who claim “No book but the Bible, no creed but Christ” have painted themselves into an impossible corner. When asked what they believe the Bible teaches, or who Christ is, they must either speak only the words of Scripture uninterpreted (begging the question) or proclaim their creed. So everyone who would seek to explain their Christian faith necessarily has a creed or a confession. The problem is that those who eschew confessionalism end up with a confession held to by one church, or even one individual! The alternative is to confess the great creedal statements created and compiled by the church down through the ages—to acknowledge that our understanding of the Bible and the Christian faith did not happen in a vacuum but rather that we stand in a tradition. Therefore we commend this Book of Confessions to the saints of Trinity Covenant Church as the very best of those attempts by the church to clearly explain some of what the Bible teaches and what the church believes. (more…)