Unrepentant sinners are in an utterly diabolical and hopeless situation. Only when faced with the stark reality of their situation will the message of the cross make any sense.   Yesterday I spoke to a group of people at a church about the dangers of cultural Marxism. During the Q&A one fellow asked what the... Continue Reading

Who wouldn’t want to be “mature and complete, not lacking anything?” But who would want the many discomforts that lead us there? The road to maturity is never an easy one, but God loves his children too much to deliver them from the path that leads to such a good destination.   From a prison... Continue Reading

Love is indeed inconvenient—and often quite costly. But with each faltering and imperfect act of neighborly love we undertake, we follow in the footsteps of Jesus whose very presence animates and undergirds our steps.   Love is inconvenient. It actually has the audacity to ask us to drop what we’re doing in order to attend... Continue Reading

Calvin was not satisfied to be involved in simply reforming the church. He was tireless in seeking to make the influence of the church felt in the affairs of the surrounding society and thus make God’s rule a reality in that area of human life as well.   It has often been maintained that the... Continue Reading

It is comforting to know that the living Christ Himself prays for us. Indeed, He “lives to make intercession for us” (Heb. 7:25). But Jesus is not the only One who prays from the heights of heaven.   Why are you here? All of you? We never left. Near the end of Harry Potter and... Continue Reading

Most churches in the United States (76%) met in person in January. But that percentage dropped 11% from September 2020, which indicates that the early winter surge of Covid cases led to churches stepping back into a temporary state of being “online only.”   We are just weeks away from the one-year mark when Covid-19... Continue Reading

The Supreme Court handed down another win for the First Amendment by ordering that California may not arbitrarily prohibit churches from holding indoor services while other similarly situated institutions remain open.   The United States Supreme Court granted emergency relief to five churches challenging Santa Clara County’s public health orders which ban indoor church services.... Continue Reading

We believe that the Reformation recovered biblical teaching after centuries of decline in the late Medieval Roman church but we cannot give an account of how the content of the confessions expresses biblical truth. Contemporary Evangelicals are not really Protestants; for most of them Protestantism is a movement in history.   Protestantism has been in... Continue Reading

We must always apply to ourselves what we are reading. It does no good to think to yourself as you read books like Numbers that those ancient Israelites were a pretty hopeless bunch. We need to think instead about just how hopeless we are as well.   Much is said in Scripture about the promised... Continue Reading

You should only care about the Equality Act if you are a Christian, or a person of faith, or a woman, or own a business, or run a non-profit, or go to school, or teach at a school, or are a medical or mental-health professional, or (especially) are a female athlete, or under the age... Continue Reading