Pursuing Christ in private and in community with others is the only way to survive the train crash of a culture that promotes an anything-goes, sexually insane agenda. Only then can we discover that the gospel offers so much more real life for the soul than short-term, temporary “fixes” that compromise our very selves.  ... Continue Reading

The fact that we have reached a crossroads is a good thing. It indicates the divisions that mostly remained out of sight except occasionally (e.g. during the 2010 proposed “Strategic Plan” or sometimes during the Review of Presbytery Records Report) are now staying in the forefront of the discussion.   As we wait to see... Continue Reading

We don’t need to guess what God really believes about sexuality, abortion, and critical race theory. The Bible is clear about these things. It isn’t nuanced, so we shouldn’t be either.    One of the biggest criticisms I receive over my blog and social media posts is also one of the biggest compliments I receive.... Continue Reading

We shouldn’t think that our pressures are unique. The temptations that we face have been faced before, they are not unprecedented, and we aren’t exempt from obedience to God.   These are not unprecedented days. That’s important to say, because unprecedented has become one of the most overused descriptors of the past year. To call... Continue Reading

If we do not begin with ourselves, and with our families, nothing else we seek to do in the world will matter. The battle for the soul of our culture and nation will be lost before it can even begin.   The family as a resistance cell. Rod Dreher’s book The Benedict Option, as well... Continue Reading

Does the faith we possess, or claim to have, bear the fruit it should? Well, there is one way to find out. When we hear the word “obedience” does it fill us with terror or love?   This week’s catechism lesson is a bit of a transition from what has taken up our time in previous... Continue Reading

Christ conquered witchcraft on the cross. Jesus “disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him” (Colossians 2:15). Jesus is greater than Moses, who defeated the Egyptian magicians and set God’s people free from fear and bondage. He defeated Satan, sin, and sorcery.   In 2016, the... Continue Reading

If it can be said that society depends on trust, then surely trust depends on a charitable spirit. Binning says that there is no better friend and nothing more useful to secular and Christian society than this love or charity.   Trust is critical to the wellbeing and functioning of society, but it is haemorrhaging... Continue Reading

Attempts by men and nations to prevent God’s sovereign purposes, not the least of which are conversion, are so pathetically impotent that God laughs at them. No nation ever has, and no nation ever will, hinder God from accomplishing his sovereign purposes.   Much attention has been given to Canada’s recently passed, “Bill C-4.”  Reportedly, some 4000... Continue Reading

The religious divide of our time is between those who think they can compromise with the sexual revolution without compromising their faith—and those who are awakening to the fact that this experiment has been tried and has failed.    Solzhenitsyn famously defined the principal trait of the twentieth century in four words: “Men have forgotten... Continue Reading