Don’t you just love the simplicity of it all: sow the word, work hard at it, keep sowing. This obviously includes the work of prayer. But go to sleep! God gives the growth, but you don’t know how He does it. Be sure of a gradual, but certain harvest. Keep going.   I’m not sure... Continue Reading

“Today I experienced Acts 3:19. If I ever wander, I pray God will keep His promise never to leave me and find a way to remind me of this passage so that I will know to come home.”   Owen Kincaid hadn’t been to the small town where he grew up in over thirty years.... Continue Reading

BCO 55 is about more than just polity; it’s about the heart’s need for truth. We gather to say out loud what we believe because we so easily forget it. We recite these things because they provide a “broad summary” of our hope when our own strength and clarity are failing.   While the Book... Continue Reading

As sons, God “vouchsafeth” for us; He identifies Himself with us as His own for whom He has responsibility.  Adoption implies freedom from slavery.  Not only pardon from punishment, but acceptance and restoration.  We are not estranged.   During our Westminster Standards teaching time last Lord’s Day evening, our memory work with the Westminster Shorter... Continue Reading

This is what we’re being called into. We’re people whose identity is rooted in Christ. We’re marked by real, visible devotion. We’re growing through God’s Word, prayer, and community. We’re showing up for others with love, truth, and action. None of this is about earning anything. It’s all grace.   As I continue in my... Continue Reading

God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, and we are not the arbiters of truth. God is the arbiter of truth. Instead, we must come to God’s written Word humbly, bowing in joyful submission to its every letter. To do less is to deny God.   It is evident in our culture today that many people... Continue Reading

He is the shoot from the stump of Jesse, the promised Messiah, the eternal King who brings fruit from what was once thought dead. And here’s where hope floods the story: after the pressing, after the crushing, after the death—new life sprang forth. Jesus rose from the grave, just as Isaiah foretold. And when He rose,... Continue Reading

Don’t believe every accusation. I’ve learned in ministry that there are always two sides to every story, and I make it my habit to never form conclusions about a situation until I have spoken with all parties involved. Advice like “believe all women” sounds compassionate and caring, but it ignores the element of human sin... Continue Reading

Jesus died the same day the sacrificial Passover lambs were slaughtered. The Perfect Lamb without spot or blemish had suffered the wrath and condemnation of God in the place of his people. His blood covered them, the angel of death would mercifully pass over them.   Five Centuries before the crucifixion of Jesus the prophet Zechariah watched... Continue Reading

We tend to divide events in the world between the ‘natural’ (those caused by natural or physical means) and the ‘supernatural’ (those events that in some way are caused by non-natural agents). But Scripture doesn’t do this, since God is sovereign over both. There are no non-supernaturally caused events as far as the Bible is... Continue Reading