No one has mastered the task of child rearing, so there is both safety and good hope of success to be found in a multitude of counselors. This perspective also serves as a helpful reminder that worship is not about me as an individual, but as us as the gathered Body of Christ.   Children... Continue Reading

It is incumbent to recognize that the PCA’s middle determined to assess Jesus Calling‘s fitness for use by Christians, and to inquire about the book’s history in the denomination’s discipleship and world missions efforts. I got it wrong. Did the middle?   After 25 years serving the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), a rather scruffy, nobody pastor... Continue Reading

Your soul will find comfort, even in discomfort and pain, when you lay down the burden of being the master of your own fate and captain of your own soul and rest in belonging to Christ. Your soul will rest comfortably when Christ is your only comfort, hope, and joy in life and death.  ... Continue Reading

The triune God who is perfectly holy, perfectly wise, perfectly good, perfectly just, perfectly perfect in His essence and all of His actions is in precise and scrupulous control of all things. His will cannot be thwarted and all He has decreed and only what He has decreed comes to pass.   We live in... Continue Reading

AI is advancing by leaps and bounds. It can be used for great good, but it also can be used for great evil. Relying on these new technologies to write a better book is certainly not necessarily evil. But is it a good thing?   It is with fear and trepidation that I write this... Continue Reading

As Francis Schaeffer pointed out to the EPC in our first General Assembly, we forget the Creation mandate of the prophets to our own peril —especially in times such as ours. From sexual dysphoria, God calls us back again to His design and blueprint in Creation, to which the Bible offers no alternatives.   Perhaps... Continue Reading

Baptism is God’s act of incorporation: binding us as many members into one body (1 Corinthians 12:13). Thus, baptism calls us to value the diverse gifts and functions of others in the church, because each contributes to the well-being and growth of the whole body (1 Corinthians 12:14–31).   The queen once dropped off her son at a birthday... Continue Reading

These maxims are offered here for any help they might be to you.…these are the ones I felt at the time were significant enough in my life and experience to record. Instead of mine, maybe you would like to write your own….My prayer is that they will be an encouragement and benefit to some for... Continue Reading

Arianism was and is a theology which is built up around one’s own experience of the invisibility and intangibility of God. We long indeed for God to be close and evident, to have him tangible in the way we would like to have him tangible; to be able to identify the hot breath of the... Continue Reading

Make the best use of your time. We won’t be perfect, but we want to glorify God with our time. We replace Bible-reading with binge-watching the latest show on Netflix. We replace prayer with mindlessly scrolling through reels. We replace our spiritual disciplines with different things that distract us. God has called us to more... Continue Reading