The Pew report and other survey data results from recent years clearly indicate that the United States is in a transition period between the trends from the last thirty years and what lies ahead in the near future.    A few weeks ago, the Pew Research Center released the results of its most recent Religious... Continue Reading

We shouldn’t quarrel, but engage others in a kind, gentle, and patient manner as we make an argument. Our goal is to correct mistaken thinking so that others can escape the falsehoods of the enemy and repent.   You’ve heard the cliché: “Never discuss politics or religion.” That’s too bad. Both are important topics that... Continue Reading

We must not live by lies. We must instead—if we are to rightly love our neighbors—live for and by the truth because “love rejoices with the truth.” If we fail to do these things in ourselves, our churches, and our societies, our blurring of biology will blur justice to the detriment of all.   [Christians] are... Continue Reading

It’s not obvious why someone who is broken needs to be forgiven. In fact, it seems to be a category error: they’ve done nothing wrong. Their greatest need isn’t to have their guilt removed, but for healing, sympathy, a helping hand, and a fair go, and for those responsible for their brokenness to be called... Continue Reading

Ministers, elders, and all with responsibility for teaching the whole counsel of God need to think about how to teach their people a sound anthropology. It is not surprising that a world whose gospel is that of personal happiness has shaped the minds of a rising generation of Christians to see aspects of the sexual... Continue Reading

When we see what God is doing in the world, what his plan is, and what his end goal is, then it motivates us to participate in God’s vision and mission…that’s the best motivation for evangelistic communication, for apologetics, and all forms of Christian witness.   What God Is Doing Often, when we think about... Continue Reading

God the Son is not merely the Son because of a title or a name. He is the Son because He is begotten of the Father from eternity past. This is who He is. Likewise, God the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit because He eternally proceeds from the Father and the Son. This goes... Continue Reading

A common critique is that the doctrine of justification by faith alone makes for lazy Christians. The objection goes something like this: If I am justified merely by faith and not works, then there is no need for me to do good works. But the Reformers scoffed at that notion, because it misinterprets what God... Continue Reading

Reformed worship is not for everyone. I’ll admit that, but it is based on deep theological convictions and it has been thoughtfully developed over the past five hundred years. So please don’t come to our church and complain that we don’t offer Whoppers or Big Macs.    Many articles have been written that lament the... Continue Reading

Gaining a good working knowledge of history in general and church history in particular is incumbent upon all believers….If we are not learning from history, we will be continuously repeating its mistakes.   Something far too many people today fail to do is learn history, and to learn from it. And that includes far too... Continue Reading