Dull Hearts, Loving Thy Neighbor, and the PCA
Abandoning sound exegesis of Scripture to accommodate worldly wisdom is not loving our neighbors.
The problem is that today, in 2020, many in the church are perceiving white racism and white privilege (and other faults) where there is none, while their hearts are dulled to the suffering brought about by the assault of Marxist, i.e., godless, ideology on our world. This includes American federal, state, and local governments that... Continue Reading
The Captive Mind and America’s Resegregation
Idol smashing and cancel culture are part of a broad ideological project to dominate society.
Today’s elites as a rule do not believe they have any obligation to serve the public, only to rule it, and so they express little or no disapproval of college students toppling statues on federal land or looters raiding supermarkets. To criticize them would open elites to the charges of “populism” and “racism.” Czesław... Continue Reading
What is Truth?
When Jesus said that He came to bear witness to the truth, what did He mean?
What is truth? Jesus Christ came to this world and was completely victorious over our enemy and the power of death. No matter how much our enemy wants us to remain in the dark about these truths, no matter how persuasive he is, no matter how bad we feel while being oppressed, no matter what... Continue Reading
Preacher, the Time is at Hand
It is time for you to preach like you have never preached before.
How we need preaching, and how we need it now! When Paul asked, “And how will they hear without a preacher?”, he was not simply speaking of one believer sharing with another or a member evangelizing his neighbor, as important as those tasks are. Rather, when he raised that question in Romans 10 he was... Continue Reading
4 Reasons We Need a Biblical View of Humanity
We base our view of human nature—our anthropology—on our doctrine of Christ because he is the perfect representative of humanity.
If Jesus claims to be the divine made human and to teach the very words of God himself, then his trustworthiness would evaporate if we were to discover his entire view of human nature to be radically wrong. He would be offering a cure for an imaginary disease and would lose all credibility. Human... Continue Reading
The Theological Problem With Tim Keller’s So-Called Social Justice
By calling charity “justice” and claiming that it is deserved, the implication is that God’s grace in the gospel is deserved.
To accurately picture God’s graciousness to us in the gospel through our giving, the one thing we must never do is claim that the recipient of the gift deserves it; that we are committing an act of justice to them in our giving. For the sake of the integrity of the gospel, gospel giving must... Continue Reading
Against Every Accusation
What to Say When Satan Whispers
At our right hand is our accuser, but at God’s right hand is our Advocate. And for every argument the devil speaks against us, Jesus speaks a greater one. He not only died to remove our sins, and he not only rose with his finished work in hand — glorious events of the ancient past... Continue Reading
Solidarity In Repentance
It is not the confession of sin that is wrong but the sitting in judgment over our forefathers’ sins rather than standing in solidarity with them confessing our sin.
We who believe in Jesus Christ, need to use this time in history not to attack other believers, dead or alive, but to proclaim our solidarity with fellow believers which include men like Abraham, Moses, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David and Samuel (Hebrews 11), men of faith, who committed grievous sins. We cannot be one... Continue Reading
Reflections on Job
God permitted his servant to be placed in the crucible so that the true character of his piety might be revealed.
In various different ways piety can lead to suffering. And because of that we can find ourselves facing a particular temptation — the temptation to not aim high; to not aspire after and seek after and labour in prayer after the kind of piety we see in a man like Job; to settle for much... Continue Reading
There is no Such Thing as Private (or Online) Communion
"The physical act of gathering is essential, not incidental, to the ordinance."
A number of people physically meeting at church whilst another group of people stay home and live streaming. Most the people who are staying home want to meet with us but they aren’t able due to age, illness or some other impediment to their coming. Given that we are having communion for those people who... Continue Reading