“Jesus”—Curse, Character, or Christ?
Like Lazarus you heard the voice of Jesus not just because the stone was rolled away but because you were given ears to hear.
Hearing that name profaned now cuts you to core. It’s as fingernails on a chalkboard. Hearing that name used without recognition stirs in you a longing of love that they might know the Jesus of whom they speak. You pray and ponder how can you be used to introduce them to Jesus. At the... Continue Reading
Preference and Amorality
“Indifferent” things do not remain morally neutral once used by a moral agent.
Adiaphora turn out to be areas that will affect vast swathes of our lives, and shape us profoundly. Perhaps one of the remaining differences between conservative evangelicals and mainstream fundamentalists is that many fundamentalists still recognise the moral importance of adiaphora, while evangelicals insist that matters of preference are to be given little attention. ... Continue Reading
A Letter From a ‘Woke’ PCA Brother to the PCA: Live In The Full Freedom Of Our Identity In Christ
There is nothing “woke” about philosophies that block sinners access to the freedom in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Though this writer has had to seek forgiveness many times for disdain of differing races, the poor, the homosexual, and the gender-confused, graciously, the Lord did not allow his ship to make it to Tarshish either. At snail’s pace, the Spirit is killing off his old nature allowing a new creation to live in Christ’s... Continue Reading
Archibald Alexander on Aging – Part 2
We look forward to birthdays, marriages and anniversaries. But we look forward to our death day. How do we prepare for this inevitable day?
Alexander urges us to look at ourselves as we grow near the day of death. He asks us if we are prepared to face God. And most importantly, of all the diagnostic questions we need to ask ourselves about the quality of our lives, is this: Are we trusting in the grace of God through... Continue Reading
Christian, God Has A Gift For You!
This special gift allows you to have special time to be with other Christians to offer special worship to your Father.
God has promised special blessings in the keeping of the Day, and painful consequences for neglecting it. By this day, His people confess their faith and can be light in a world that dwells in darkness. Jesus Christ is risen; He is Lord of every day, but declares His salvation with one day of the... Continue Reading
Superior Envy
When a person is filled with envy, he is fixated on the gap between himself and the person with whom he compares himself.
Proverbs 14:30 reminds us that “A sound heart is life to the body, But envy is rottenness to the bones.” It is the nature of envy to be willing to suffer, so long as others suffer even more. Yes, even persons of superior prosperity and happiness are willing to suffer when they are consumed by... Continue Reading
The Blessed Repetition of Redemptive History
Jesus had to relive Israel’s history in order to bring about the spiritual reality of what the original exodus typified.
Why do we have a clear recapitulation of [Israel’s] history in the biblical record of the life of Jesus? The simple explanation is that Jesus came to do everything that Israel failed to do. He came to live as the perfect representative of His people. Everyone loves the idea of new beginnings, as well... Continue Reading
What Will I Find When I Look at Christ?
Jesus Christ came into the world, so that you could come into a greater knowledge of God than was even given to Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob.
Whatever you have experienced in the Christian life, you ain’t seen nothing yet. You will see heaven opened and the angels ascending and descending—what the world longs to see, but cannot apart from Jesus Christ. My invitation today to every person who is sincere in searching for the truth, but has genuine questions: “Come... Continue Reading
The Glory of the God-man: Who can Declare His Generation?
Indeed, we cannot comprehend this mystery.
When the Catechism introduces us to our Savior’s divine nature it describes Him as “the eternal Son of God.” In other words, it identifies Him with an attribute of God (“eternality”) and then identifies Him according to His distinct personal subsistence within the Godhead (“Son of God”). This description is rooted in Trinitarian categories. Both... Continue Reading
What Does “Faith Alone” Mean, and Why Should You Care?
In response to Rome’s perversion of biblical doctrine, the Reformers returned to the Scriptural truth that nothing we do can earn favor with God.
A common critique is that this doctrine makes for lazy Christians. The objection goes something like this: If I am justified merely by faith and not works, then there is no need for me to do good works. But the Reformers scoffed at that notion, because it misinterprets what God is doing for us through... Continue Reading