He, someone not something, is the supreme subject matter and scope of Christian preaching: God the Son incarnate, clothed with the promises of the gospel, crucified and risen, ascended and coming again. The Trinity and Christian Preaching Recent days have prompted me to think about the relationship between trinitarian theology and Christian preaching. The first... Continue Reading

Darnell says the idea of a platonic relationship being “weird” or “strange” has to do with our discomfort at the fact that relationships are living things that can change and have various meanings for different people.   April Lexi Lee and Renee Wong have been best friends since they were 12. After supporting each other through... Continue Reading

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