You hear of how Jesus, comes from the line of David and Jesse and Boaz (remember the Ruth story) and Judah and Jacob and Isaac and Abraham back in time to Noah, and back further all the way to Adam, and then you hear that Last verse, and it hits you!   Have you ever... Continue Reading

If more and more people view children as a burden instead of a gift, and life as a dreary nuisance rather than a splendid opportunity to enjoy God’s creation—our population will indeed implode. If taken to an extreme, societal suicide becomes a possibility.   Two years ago, I wrote about the pending global population implosion. Demographers... Continue Reading

God does more than just influence—he predestines. That’s why all things will work together for the good of the called, and Christ will be the firstborn among many brothers (Rom. 8:29). God is in charge. The outcome is secure. And that, my friends, is a guarantee.   To this day, whenever I stand behind a pulpit and say... Continue Reading

If you have not listened to “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” you should. It helps us to understand the so-called New Calvinism or the Young, Restless, and Reformed movement. It also helps us to understand the intersection between a part of the PCA and Acts 29 and that might help us understand some of the... Continue Reading

Congregational singing wasn’t destroyed overnight, and it won’t be relearned overnight. But in time, implementing these ideas would begin to build a singing culture in our congregations once again.    Congregational singing is dead, and we have killed it. If it wasn’t dead before Covidtide, it probably is now. So let’s start again, and let’s... Continue Reading

Christian hope doesn’t mean that the Christian life is all peaches and cream. Until Jesus returns, we will experience sin and suffering. The pattern of our life as Christians is the cross of Christ; we cannot rise with Christ unless we have first died with Him.   Despair and Hope After seventeen years of pastoral... Continue Reading

The religious model of marriage and family appears to boost the odds that young adults can marry before 30 without increasing their risk of landing in divorce court.   The new marriage norm for American men and women is to marry around the age of 30, according to the U.S. Census. Many young adults believe that... Continue Reading

To the world beyond America’s gangs and liberal newsrooms, the New York Times is blatantly racist. And its woke racism is just as cruel as the racism it was designed to replace.   The New York Times has dropped the ball again, in their incomplete reporting on the murder of an Italian in New York. Unbridled political correctness has... Continue Reading

If we find ourselves at a loss for words unable to think of things for which to be thankful, we should turn to the Psalms. The psalmist knew how to thank the Lord for many different things, whether in times of joy or sorrow.   One of the common characteristics we find in the apostle... Continue Reading

Even though the nations rage and plot in vain and the kings and rulers of the earth set themselves against the King of kings, even still “He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision” (Psalm 2:4). Our King is laughing at all the geo-political hubbub emerging from our current zeitgeist.... Continue Reading