Not If but When: Reflections on 4 Different Kinds of Healing
We believe God can heal our children. And we trust him when he doesn’t, knowing that one day he will.
First, we remember that God is healing people all the time. Second, we realize that the question isn’t actually whether God will heal our children but when. And third, we see that praying is about asking God to do now what he will certainly do then: “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth... Continue Reading
Gospel Irony: Prevailing in Unlikely Places
Paul’s experience with the Praetorian Guard should serve to give us hope and courage.
Philippians 1:16 declares, “and most of the brothers in the Lord, having become confident by my chains, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.” Paul’s boldness was contagious. These Christians were in Rome, the seat of power. They were directly under the shadow of Nero. Yet, stirred on by Paul’s example, they were... Continue Reading
You Don’t Know When Your Last Sermon Will Be
We must make our last sermon a good sermon. And since we’ll probably preach our last sermon without knowing it, all our sermons must be good sermons.
As history’s most widely read preacher, Spurgeon is probably quoted more than any other pastor—25 million words of his sermons are available in 63 printed volumes. The London pastor’s life was marked by suffering, opposition, loss, depression, and physical pain. “Imagine placing your foot in a vice,” he said, describing his gout, “and tightening the vice... Continue Reading
3 Wrong Reasons to Leave Your Local Church — and 5 Right Reasons to Stay
Having served as a pastor for almost twenty years, I would categorize three areas of ungodly departure from the local church.
It’s been commonly said that we don’t choose the people who sit next to us in the pew, but God does. Love requires, in response to the gospel, that we invest in the lives of those who are often most difficult and unattractive to us. It’s one of the saddest things to witness someone throw... Continue Reading
When Knowledge Misses the Point
Little knowledge of God, of the nature of godliness, and of the principles of religion, with this wrong kind of zeal, have produced much damage to the gospel.
There are many who seek to know only or mainly so that they would know, and make others know that they know. In religion they are all notion without motion, having a head full of light and a heart void of all life. They talk all their religion and do not walk it. Their knowledge... Continue Reading
A Department of Friendship Can’t Fix the Sexual Revolution’s Lonely Fallout
The American left are finally noticing our society is decaying, but they are almost uniformly unwilling to admit that the culture and policies they have championed have anything to do with it.
Leftism seeks to liberate us from all unchosen constraints and obligations, which includes our embodiment as men and women. It has effaced the differences between men and women and embraced the sexual revolution, which presumes that happiness, authenticity, and fulfillment are found through indulging our desires, especially our sexual impulses. But as intense as these... Continue Reading
Abortion and Contraception Equals Birth Dearth
Anyone who thinks we can continue enthusiastically pushing contraception and abortion and see birth rates increase to even marginally acceptable levels in developed countries, is a fool.
Like contraception, abortion boomed. In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated there were 198 abortions for every 1,000 live births in the United States. At the high-water point in 1984, there were 364 abortions for every 1,000 live births, and that number never dropped below 300 for 20 years from 1976 to... Continue Reading
A Godly Man Weeps
There is an assumption that real men are not supposed to cry.
In his short work, The Emotional Life of Our Lord, BB Warfield writes of the compassion, love, indignation, and sorrow that Jesus experienced during His earthly ministry. Jesus was “subject to all sinless human emotions.” [4] So, what were the occasions that caused the Lord to weep? Three moments in Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry stand... Continue Reading
Of God’s Eternal Decree in Light of Four Commentaries on WCF 3.2. Have We Drifted?
The attention given to the Reformed doctrine of the divine decree is not attended to with the care it once was.
Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Reformed theology is its doctrine Of God’s Eternal Decree. Whereas Rome and Protestant denominations can find substantive agreement on the Person of Christ, Theology Proper, and with varying degree formal agreement on the sacraments – when it come to the Reformed doctrine Of God’s Eternal Decree Trinitarian communions are... Continue Reading
The Orienting Centre of All Reality
Remembering the immovable purposes of God in an age of upheaval.
Where is the comfort of the people of God found? According to the psalmist, it is found in the remembrance that God has purposed to be exalted in all the earth — and His purposes do not fail. Thus, when all the world seems to give way, when the fabric of creation itself appears to... Continue Reading
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