Getting (Infant) Baptism Right
Understanding the PCA’s Baptismal Doctrine
Calvin, just like the Westminster Confession, insists that salvation is pictured, even offered, in baptism, but only received by those who embrace the promise of baptism in faith. God can implant the seed of faith in that infant at the moment of baptism if he so chooses, but there is no inseparable connection between baptism and even... Continue Reading
How to Turn from Sexual Sin? Practice Considering Christ
When our thoughts are set on Jesus, guess where they’re not? They’re not occupied by self, lust, pride, greed, coveting.
While our salvation is by grace alone, we daily choose to press into deeper communion with our Savior or pull away from him. Believers are empowered by the mighty Spirit of God. By his grace, we can choose to turn our minds and thoughts toward Christ. This is what it means to practice considering him. Your next... Continue Reading
Principles of a Christian Mindset
Christianity asserts something that relativism refuses to accept: The Christian worldview is true.
Christians are those who have a conscious trust and dependence on Christ’s saving work on their behalf (as opposed to all other worldviews). I am called to love. Christians are called to love God, to love their neighbors as themselves, and to love their enemies. This is carried out in the course of their ordinary... Continue Reading
Katharina von Bora: A Perfectly Free Christian Single
What can we learn from Katie? She clearly believed that Christian freedom applied to her too.
By marrying Luther, Katie chose a position that enabled her to use her home as a hospital during the Black Plague, take in orphans, host dignitaries and scholars from around the world, and be the deepest encouragement to her husband. Her life was a life of service, in true freedom. If you were a... Continue Reading
The Past Is More Than A List of Problems
We should not assume that just because we are the latest generation on earth, we are the greatest.
We must also seek out the good and right, the ageless wisdom and courage and faith that have always stood against evil, the virtues that have cultivated our world, the convictions that have built up and beautified it. Our ancestors have shown us many ways to fall and fail, certainly, but they have also at times... Continue Reading
Preparing for God’s Presence
If you are experiencing His presence—personally, deeply—you have everything that matters and lasts.
We desire the presence of God in our lives. He is always present in the true believer, but we are often not aware of and relying upon His presence. It is possible to have His presence, but not acknowledge or experience His presence, which is the cause of all spiritual failure in believers’ lives. And... Continue Reading
Whatever Happened to Total Depravity?
Vain is the salvation of man.
The problems we are facing go much deeper than culture and politics and thus cannot be resolved with a mere changing of the guard. Our sinful hearts are the issue. They are the root. They are the source of all the rot and decay, misery and injustice, corruption and oppression we see in our world at present.... Continue Reading
The Tragedy of IVF
Do you think that children born by IVF are human beings?
IVF and surrogacy witness to the most natural and most glorious of human desires, that of a man and a woman wanting together to create the life of another person. Yet the very procedures require society to treat that person as a thing, a commodity. It is the quintessential tragedy of our modern, technological age.... Continue Reading
Five Myths about Christianity and Politics in America
Christians are called to live out their faith in every area of life—including politics.
Christianity and politics are not mutually exclusive. While the church should never become a political machine, it has a responsibility to engage the political sphere with moral clarity and courage. Our laws are, and always will be, reflections of our moral values, and Christians have an important role to play in shaping those values. ... Continue Reading
Why Spurgeon Refused to Name Names in the Downgrade Controversy
He never provided the names of these teachers for at least three reasons.
Spurgeon would not name names was because he did not want to make this fight about himself. The encroaching downgrade and modernist theologies were not an offense against Spurgeon personally. Rather, they were an offense against God. Spurgeon was “extremely anxious to avoid personalities,” because he had no desire to make the controversy about himself,... Continue Reading
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