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Called To Be Saints (Part 2): Called in the Grace of Christ

By: Thomas Clayton Booher (The Elder) Galatians 1:3-6 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--- J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937), was Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1906-1929. In 1929, he led a conservative movement out of the Northern Presbyterian Church to form the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and the new school Westminster Theological Seminary. Machen taught at Westminster in the same chair he held at Princeton until his death. Machen was unusually erudite in the original language of the New Testament. He wrote a beginner’s Grammar, which was used in my first year of Greek. I still have it – it brings ba...