Grant Van Leuven's Posts

Grant Van Leuven's Posts

Word, Sacrament, and Discipline: Discipline, a Means & Sign of True Body Life

Grant Van Leuven
Dec 24, 2018
Discussing the three marks of a true church during a seminary class (preaching the Word, administering the sacraments, and disciplining members), our professor emphasized the third by rhetorically asking, “How many true churches are there today?” His implication was, where are authentic churches to...

Insuppressible Truth: The Design for Life

Grant Van Leuven
Jun 28, 2018
A fashion designer goes about creating clothes for people with a keen sense of how the parts and the whole will best fit together. The designer does not just throw fabric, thread, and needles into the wind but carefully draws patterns and then every stitch brings the pieces together. So ... God is...

Teach Me To Pray!: Ask to be Kept from Doing Evil

Grant Van Leuven
Jan 18, 2018
We often pray the fifth petition of the Lord’s Prayer after sinning. We should learn to pray the sixth petition before similarly sinning again, remembering, ye have not because ye ask not (James 4:2). The essence of the sixth petition, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (...

Why Study Theology: The Blessed Truth of Being Theologically Organized

Grant Van Leuven
Jan 17, 2018
If all your paperwork rolled like a sea over your desk, you’d struggle to navigate and prepare your tax returns. If you blanketed your computer’s desktop with all your digital files, you’d smother the writing of a departmental report. So is any unorganized library a maze of confusion. This is why...

Sexual Identity: The Way We Were and Who We Are: Our Identity Crisis is Re-railed into Christ

Grant Van Leuven
Jan 10, 2018
In her book, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert , [1] Dr. Rosaria Butterfield compares her Christian conversion experience to "an alien abduction or a train wreck." As she shares about her very public Christian "coming out" while a tenured university English professor specializing in "Queer...

Meditating on the Word: Prepare To Be Preached To

Grant Van Leuven
Mar 24, 2017
To guide God’s saints in readying themselves for the reception of His preached Word each Lord’s Day, this earthen vessel shares his own weekly preparation to proclaim it to them as a model to modify and use. Prepare through Prayer With an intense sense of the responsibility of the task and a desire...

No Little Women: Know What We’ve Got Before She’s Gone

Grant Van Leuven
Feb 3, 2017
Jennifer Marie, my dear wife, died on the fourteenth of September last year. [1] She was thirty-eight. We had barely made it to our eighteenth wedding celebration the month before. Our four young covenant children prepared and served us a special meal that she could eat. We dined together beneath...

Systematic Theology: The Blessed Truth of Being Theologically Organized

Grant Van Leuven
Jan 13, 2017
If all your paperwork rolled like a sea upon your desk, you’d struggle to navigate and prepare your tax returns. If you blanketed your computer’s desktop with all your digital files, you’d smother the writing of a departmental report. So is any unorganized library a maze of confusion. This is why...

Have More Heaven on Earth with Jesus to Prepare to Leave Earth for Jesus

Grant Van Leuven
Sep 15, 2016
Let us meditate on what Jesus said to the thief next to Him on the cross, as recorded in Luke 23:43: “Verily … Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise”. [1] In union with Christ by faith, we will go immediately to a blissful place upon our death. We will leave this world of sin and misery behind us...

Sexual Identity: The Way We Were and Who We Are: Our Identity Crisis is Re-railed into Christ

Grant Van Leuven
Aug 31, 2016
In her book, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert , [1] Dr. Rosaria Butterfield compares her Christian conversion experience to "an alien abduction or a train wreck." As she shares about her very public Christian "coming out" while a tenured university English professor specializing in "Queer...