Christ presented His humanity, His offering of Himself, and His work on behalf of humanity when He ascended on high and sat down. The seat in the heavenly sanctuary is a throne, and His sitting on that throne is a signal of coronation and completion, resulting from a victory won over sin, Satan, and death... Continue Reading

The core of purity culture is teaching young people to take God’s commands for personal purity seriously—no lust and no premarital sex. Christians who follow God’s Word will continue to preach and teach this.   I grew up during purity culture. I didn’t know it at the time, because purity culture was all I knew... Continue Reading

If sin has touched every aspect of who we are, then we must not look within for the solution. We must look to Christ.…The doctrine of total depravity is not meant to leave us in despair, but to strip away false hope so that we might cling to the only true hope that is found... Continue Reading

The Christian Stoic…wants to be a man who is incredibly difficult to offend when it comes to his own pride, but who burns with a fierce, controlled fire when it comes to the honor of God and the protection of the weak.   Before we face the ultimate test of the Christian Stoic, the meditation... Continue Reading

If brothers are willing to submit to our constitution despite privately desiring women’s ordination, then they are welcome. But it is time to cease both the sophistry and evasion on this point as well as the open attempts to make the PCA into something it never has been—and by God’s grace—never will be.   One... Continue Reading

Words of rebuke have a special capacity to lay our hearts bare and promote significant progress in our spiritual lives. May we humbly submit to this tough means of grace for the glory of God and the good of our souls.   Our ability to receive rebuke from others is a quality essential to our... Continue Reading

The Lord is not withholding blessings because He is uncaring or apathetic. Rather, He is cultivating capacity because He is wise. What He has prepared for you requires a version of you that does not yet exist. Said another way, God is preparing you for what He has prepared for you.   I’ve sat with... Continue Reading

If we believe we can bring about the outcomes we desire, we will blame ourselves when those outcomes don’t actualize. God doesn’t need us to bring about good outcomes. He’s got that part. He calls us to pursue faithfulness. That’s something that, by his grace, we can handle.   My two fellow pastors and I... Continue Reading

Jesus promised, “I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand” (John 10:28). We don’t cling out of fear of losing Him, rather we cling because nothing can separate us from His love. This is where our journey begins, not with our strength, but... Continue Reading

There are times…when we will sin against one another.  And the danger is that if we react to that sin out of our old nature with anger, rage, bitterness, slander and malice, we’ll destroy the church.   We’re spending a few weeks looking at some of the ‘one another’ commands God gives his church as we... Continue Reading