God’s Preferred Pronouns
Should we abandon he/him and adopt they/them?
The biblical data overwhelming supports the position that God wants us to refer to him with a singular, masculine pronoun. Since that’s how God has chosen to reveal himself, we should honor him by using the pronouns used in Scripture. God is not a he. That’s what gender theorists claim. God’s pronouns are they/them,... Continue Reading
Helping the Victim of Gaslighting
Gaslit victims confuse what the rest of us would take for granted.
In the movie Gaslight, the lights were flickering, and she knew it. But her husband attempted to tell her that her senses could not be trusted. We must help the “victims” understand that what they see, hear, touch, and smell can be trusted because that is how God designed them to experience the world. In... Continue Reading
Reflections on the Crisis in Ukraine
The issues involved in this war between Russia and Ukraine are complex and it is easy to get discouraged.
There are difficult days ahead for Ukrainians, and the West must not back off from full support of their struggle against the Russians. As Pete Wehner has noted, in this terrible human drama, we are witnessing “ordinary people…acting in extraordinary ways to defend the country they love, against overwhelming odds.” A number of my... Continue Reading
Done with Dunking
To practice immersion baptism is to replace a superior mode with an inferior one and to endorse error.
It is time for Presbyterian ministers, along with elders, to affirm their ordination vows by using the right and biblical administration of baptism. As for me I am done with dunking, and I will boldly proclaim that “baptism is rightly administered with pouring, or sprinkling water upon the person.” The dipping of the person into... Continue Reading
25 Unbelievable Things Search Committees Said to Pastoral Candidates
We asked pastors, "What is a question you’ve been asked by a search committee (or its equivalent) that told you the church is not a good fit for you?”
We got dozens of the expected responses like, “Does your wife play piano?” But we got many more that shocked us. By this point, you would think that I couldn’t be shocked how some churches treat a pastor or staff member. It began as a conversation at Church Answers where we have 2,000 church... Continue Reading
“Smartphones as Security Blankets” Prevent Us from Living Fully Human Lives
Extracting ourselves from the digital hamster wheel is the only genuine and lasting way to live more human lives.
It is an irony that the very devices that are causing us so much stress—through non-stop social media, doom-scrolling the latest pandemic or war news, the fear of missing out on what is going on right now—have also become pacifiers that make us less likely to actually do something. (LifeSiteNews)—A Saturday column in the Washington... Continue Reading
Which Rabbits are You Chasing?
The goal of preaching is to convey accurately the biblical author’s intent.
We all tend to have an exalted view of our oratorical abilities, but strength is not always in the length. Sometimes, brevity is better. Yet, honoring the sufficiency of Scripture in our delivery is best of all. We were discussing the length of the preacher’s sermon in one of Paul’s letters. “Which rabbits are... Continue Reading
Salvation and Seeing Your Sin
As our understanding of God’s holiness grows the gap between our sin and God’s holiness grows.
Christ came to save sinners, and He has surely accomplished what He set out to do. That salvation is not hypothetical; it is not contingent. It will not be undone when God realizes what big sinners we are. If you were to survey people about why Jesus came to earth, you’d probably get a... Continue Reading
The Third Great Awakening?
This time it’s all about the self, not a revived Christianity.
The first two Great Awakenings were a mix of religious fervor and doctrine—particularly the Second, with its rather dubious theology. But they had this in their favor: They did at least press people toward a Christian ethic that took social responsibility seriously. The Third Great Awakening is clearly pushing people toward social irresponsibility. According... Continue Reading
Idol of the Week
A nation casts about in search of its God.
We can impoverish ourselves and rend our garments in pursuit of environmental, racial, moral, or medical purity. But “the gifts and sacrifices being offered are not able to clear the conscience of the worshipper” (Hebrews 9). There is and has only ever been one God who can do that. Shortly after the Bolshevik revolution,... Continue Reading
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