According to Heb 1:4-14, the esteem we are to have for the Son, particularly in contrast to the angels, will come as we appreciate His role in the history of creation and His role in the history of redemption.   Our esteem for Christ becomes more and more reverent as we receive and rest upon... Continue Reading

He that lives by feeling will be happy today and unhappy tomorrow; and if our salvation depended upon our feelings, we should be lost one day and saved another, for they are as fickle as the weather, and go up and down like a barometer. We live by faith, and if that faith be weak,... Continue Reading

The need for the gospel is greater than ever in the former Soviet Union. Although Vladimir Putin has verbally promoted the Orthodox Church, most people are still nominal Christians and seventy years of anti-religious propaganda are hard to erase.   On April 26, 1979, 50-year-old Georgi Petrovich Vins was woken up in his cell in... Continue Reading

If we could imagine grace as less like a spiritual substance and more like a glorious Person, our own spiritual reformation may not be far behind.   Few words are more precious in the Christian’s vocabulary than the word grace. And yet few words are more misunderstood and misapplied, even by those who treasure the... Continue Reading

When the great seventeenth-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian Samuel Rutherford was in prison in Aberdeen, he used to write at the top of his letters, “God’s palace, Aberdeen.” Prison had turned into a palace for Rutherford because he knew the presence of God there.   When we are in love—especially when that love is... Continue Reading

Every time Christians encourage non-Christians to consider Christianity, they are inviting them to embrace something larger than can be expressed in four, or eight or ten statements. In a day when the very word “God” is understood, if at all, with rambling diversity, the way we communicate the gospel requires breadth and clarity.   Imagine... Continue Reading

How do we respond by faith to the curse of death? This is an important question for us not only because we all have to deal with the inevitability of death, but because the Christian posture toward death is one of the things that separates us from the rest of the world.   We are... Continue Reading

Matthew tells us that Christ the King, as He executes His office and pursues His agenda, is God with us. He is our Immanuel. He is the ever-present help of His followers. Our King is also our Priest.   And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been... Continue Reading

When a doctor gives a lethal injection to a suffering infant, regardless of his motivation, he is killing that child; he and other adults have decided that child is better off dead. We used to understand how wrong that is.   The Dutch government is preparing to legalize euthanasia for children between the ages of... Continue Reading

While a threshold understanding of false ideologies presently challenging the church is necessary for pastors, their priority should be that of rooting themselves and the people under their care in true, historical, confessional, orthodox theology. They should focus on shoring up their doctrinal distinctives such that they can weather any storm.   Three Cheers, Two... Continue Reading