What exact words did he write? We don’t know, but whatever portion of God’s law he wrote must have related to the hearts of these scribes and Pharisees, and it definitely exposed their guilt before him as Judge and King.   We’ve been digging in Deuteronomy and grabbing gold from John’s Gospel as we’ve been... Continue Reading

“We have an altar.” Forget the marble columns and gilded halls: this altar walked, wept, bled, and breathed. The altar was Jesus. The sacrifice was Jesus. The priest, the blood, the mercy, the covenant…all Jesus.   Today’s Truth: There is no altar left to build. Only one to follow. The letter came folded in worn... Continue Reading

We talk all the time about Christ dying for our sins. As we should! May we never stop proclaiming his death on the cross and subsequent resurrection! But it’s quite easy to gloss over his active obedience, his perfect life. There is truly no hope without it.   It’s commonly understood among Protestants that we’re... Continue Reading

As Presbyterians, we are called to stand firm on God’s Word, proclaim the sufficiency of Christ, and shepherd our people with love in truth and grace. Feminism, in all its forms, pulls us away from that calling.   In 1923, J. Gresham Machen published his monumental work Christianity and Liberalism as a bold response to... Continue Reading

Where is God calling you to trust Him now? What is the classroom of opportunity He is offering to you, calling you to “stand still and see the salvation of the Lord?” What is He telling you to give or a place where you are to rest and let Him provide so things can be... Continue Reading

The resurrection Paul proclaims in 1 Corinthians 15 is not the mere transferal to an ethereal or spiritual state….The resurrection Paul proclaims in this chapter is the conquest of bodily death. It is the final triumph of God.   In the canonical gospels, as virtually all scholars concur, the resurrection of Christ, and the hope... Continue Reading

As we obey God, he will continue to lavish his gifts of grace upon us. For there is always blessing on the far side of obedience. “Blessed…are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” (Luke 11:28)   To be human is to be finite—to be limited in our knowledge of past, present,... Continue Reading

The problem with our religious good works is that we are attempting to “serve God” or “do good things” without being in a right relationship with God and without understanding how He wants to be served. Our good works are pure presumption and cannot be the means by which we are reconciled to God.   ... Continue Reading

The doctrines of justification and union with Christ are the best pieces of news sinners in this sin-scarred world could ever hear. What we never could have dreamed has become ours. And what we have no capacity to earn is now ours in Christ.   The Need for Sacrifice I spent one year in my... Continue Reading

Vos’s insights concerning Biblical Theology are numerous and influential….[Vos’s] insights should significantly prompt Evangelicals to recognize that the work of the biblical theologian is to replicate as accurately as possible God’s progressive revelation of Himself in harmony with His redemptive deeds, as portrayed for us in the Bible’s storyline from Genesis to Revelation.   Many... Continue Reading