As church leaders can see, both knowledge and wisdom are necessary to answer questions about video games. Pastors and elders need to know what games are, what effects they can have, what proclivities inquirers (and their children) have, and what the Scriptures say.   Read Part 1. Counsel Church leaders should exhort everyone to “[k]eep thy... Continue Reading

In dealing with the ideals of a society, the Christian’s appeal is not to the Constitution of the United States, but rather to the word of God.   Though Christian Nationalism does have plenty of material that lands on the green, there are also concepts in which its ideas land in the rough. These are... Continue Reading

How often do we forget that we, too, are members of the flock? Be intentional about creating a culture among your church’s leadership of caring for one another. Share your burdens. Confess your sins to one another. Pray for one another. Ask how you can serve one another.   You stand alert and watch with... Continue Reading

The fact that our children face challenges and pressures is not in dispute. Their response is not assured or given. However, we can do much to prepare them—church, family, and school functioning in community and grounded in a biblical worldview afford the best opportunity for necessary formation.    My first car was one of Honda’s... Continue Reading

Paul’s place of birth, his heritage, his education, and his vocation were all means by which God was molding and fashioning Paul to be the servant whom God had purposed him to be.   Paul’s life was a testimony to the gospel that he preached, so knowing something about his life helps us have a... Continue Reading

The Passover is fulfilled, but Christ still calls us to be unleavened. It’s not about the bread on the communion table. It’s about us. Will I be pure in heart for my Saviour?   Everything about this festival was meant to call to mind the events of the great exodus from Egypt. There was even... Continue Reading

Reformed Christians have the richest account of God’s love in all of Christendom. We trace it from before the foundation of the world through the golden chain to the certain glorification that awaits us in eternity. The doctrine is there. It just hasn’t finished the journey from our heads to our hearts.   Insecure people... Continue Reading

The adoption thesis must be abandoned, as it denies that Christ was the Son of God by virtue of the hypostatic union at the moment of conception. Instead, it inaccurately suggests that he who is already the personal Son was somehow adopted into sonship. If this were true, the Father’s love for the Son would... Continue Reading

We never know what will come about because of our ordinary acts of faithfulness—be it a kind, passing word, a whispered prayer, or even a simple question. Indeed, Pascal had his wager, my father had his—“Have you been born again?   Blaise Pascal was a Renaissance man—among other things, he was a philosopher, mathematician, physicist,... Continue Reading

Spiritual leaders are those called by God through the local church not merely to proclaim the Gospel but to exemplify the power of the Gospel through genuine godliness. This is the heartbeat of the qualification passages of 1 Timothy and Titus 1.   Any discussion about the qualifications of pastors/elders must begin with 1 Timothy... Continue Reading