All things COVID will eventually pass.  Few things last forever. But at some point, physicians may pay a price for their poor judgment in suspending critical thinking.  The question is, who will judge them?   In “normal” times, the practice of medicine has many challenges, some from within and some from outside the profession.  If... Continue Reading

You might be thinking that your friendships are different. They really are authentic and life-long. Maybe. And if so, that’s awesome. But try this. As much as you’re enjoying the relationship (as they likely are), do something associated with your position they don’t like and see what happens.   Over the last year and a bit,... Continue Reading

There is something extremely comforting about knowing that God is our father. This relationship has been planned since before the foundation of the world. We have been adopted as sons and daughters into the family of the Triune God through the Son in the Spirit.   Certain statements grab our imagination. For me, J.I. Packer’s... Continue Reading

The covenant God is fulfilling in Esther is the same covenant He fulfills throughout the entirety of the Old Testament (see Gen. 12:3), only He often does it without miraculous, divine intervention. Instead, He fulfills His covenant promises through ordinary events and through the ordinary course of human lives.   The book of Esther is the... Continue Reading

The Soviet Union collapsed because it created a society built on fear and lies. The woke takeover of our institutions won’t bring us utopia, it will bring us the same misery and failure.   Saying two plus two equals four may now be problematic. One of the key aspects of the left-wing cultural revolution that’s... Continue Reading

The gospel disrupts a defeatist attitude. It won’t tolerate the mindset of a weary soldier who doesn’t want to fight anymore. Rather it says: In Christ, nothing is impossible (Luke 1:37). Your life, no matter how bad it is, is not beyond the scope of God’s life-giving, sin-defeating grace.   Tony tells me, “I’ve given... Continue Reading

Even when it is meant for evil, as with Joseph’s brothers; even in the midst of our sin, as with David; and even when it involves people we wouldn’t expect, such as Rahab; God is still sovereignly accomplishing His will for the redemption of His people for His glory.   A colorful coat given to... Continue Reading

“Son of Man” is just as much about Jesus’s divinity as it is his humanity. This title proves to be perhaps the most effective way Jesus reveals and conceals who he really is. By using “Son of Man,” he is able to minister undercover, so to speak, on earth.    The hit CBS show Undercover Boss... Continue Reading

On the other hand, we should not focus on death when it is close but rather should focus on Christ. This is because a large part of the terror of death comes from the awareness of our sins and our guilt before God. The unbeliever has no alternative but to hope that there is no... Continue Reading

The intellectual intransigence of southerners towards Edwards, especially southern Presbyterians with high views on the eucharist and those opposed to the New Divinity, should not be discounted in an attempt to create a tradition wherein Edwards is primary progenitor of Calvinist thought in North America.   In the 1840s and 1850s the debates over the... Continue Reading