God desires his glory to spread throughout time, through generations, and it is mainly through parenting that this happens. It’s the responsibility and privilege of parents to train up the next generation to praise God. Here is where all the verses mentioned in the opening paragraph fit perfectly. Parents are told to train their children (Proverbs... Continue Reading

If we can be captivated by aspects of God’s creation, how much more should we be enthralled by the Creator himself? How much more should we stop and behold our God through reflection and meditation on His word? How much more should we recount His wondrous deeds and stand in awe?   About 53 million... Continue Reading

When we succumb to the cacophony of doom predictions we hear in the news and read online and are otherwise bombarded with, we are being worldly. Fortunately Scripture tells us how to fight this kind of worldly thinking by being transformed by the renewing of your mind. And the way to that renewal is to... Continue Reading

The Bible, in fact, “is indiscriminate in its pleasure language” using words like happiness, joy, contentment, delight, and satisfaction essentially as synonyms describing the same kinds of experiences. Happiness is not trivial. Human beings take it very seriously. And we can’t help it.    God means for you to seek the highest happiness there is to... Continue Reading

New York was a city of sharp contrasts, with a great disparity between rich and poor. Life was particularly difficult for widows, who grew numerically after the yellow fever epidemics of 1795, 1799, and 1803. Graham knew what it was like to be a widow and single mother, but at least her education had allowed... Continue Reading

We serve a King who has power and authority, whose care extends even to the birds of the air (Luke 12:24). Nothing we experience is outside of his plan. He was not only with me, but he was with Ben each moment of each day, and no matter how hard I tried, and how much... Continue Reading

What can we learn from Paul’s writing today when our church leaders renounce their faith, when Christians chase after selfish gain, and when believers are enticed by the world and its ever-changing worldviews? Grieving is not enough. Nor is the quest against the culture of this world. All those attempts have failed miserably.   Fallen... Continue Reading

In his day Newton was famous for five things — he was an outstanding example of a converted infidel, he was a great hymn-writer, he was a wise spiritual counsellor, he had true charity for all Christians, and his personality had an unconscious godliness about it. All these are worth our study.   It is... Continue Reading

There can be no faithful service except there be love. And the form love takes in a ‘good and faithful servant’ is sure to be the form which meets us here: — I mean, an eager, anxious love identifying itself with the welfare of those it serves: a self-sacrificing, self-denying, self-forgetting love: — a love... Continue Reading

According to Burgess, Paul is not saying that the Mosaic covenant is not gracious, or that it did not administer salvation to the saints in the Old Testament.  Paul is saying that the Mosaic covenant, as misinterpreted by his opponents, kills and is a ministry of condemnation.  2 Corinthians 3, therefore, does not contradict the Westminster... Continue Reading