The Divine Mandate for Parents
I don’t think there’s a mandate to be found in sacred Scripture that is more solemn than this one.
That we are to teach our children the truth of God’s Word is a sacred, holy responsibility that God gives to His people. And it’s not something that is to be done only one day a week That we are to teach our children the truth of God’s Word is a sacred, holy responsibility that... Continue Reading
Evangelism: Personalized and Spatially Aware
Evangelism seeks to apply the mysterious power of the Gospel to transform lives to the mysterious power of a human being’s spiritual thoughts and actions.
Evangelistic programs, though helpful, must be subject to course correction (slight or significant) as the situation demands. Good evangelists must know and be able to articulate the basic tenets of the Gospel. Beyond that foundation, however, effective evangelists possess two important skills: they take a personal approach, and they are spatially aware. The truths... Continue Reading
The Church’s Greatest Need
The church first exists to know and proclaim the glory of the triune God in the face of Christ.
One of Scripture’s culminating visions is Revelation 4–5. It is a breathtaking vision in which the triune God is seen in all his glory, holiness, authority, sovereignty, and self-sufficiency. In this vision, we are reminded about what is truly central and important: the Lord on his throne and the Lamb who was slain. In every... Continue Reading
No Middle Ground
LGBTQ+ groups have redefined human identity to center on their sexual orientation, and demand that everyone acknowledge that their definition of humanity is correct.
The reason LGBTQ+ groups hate conservatives is that, according to them, we are denying their humanity. Of course, that is not what we think we are doing. But for them, they do not have humanity unless they can force everyone else to acknowledge that their definition of humanity is correct. I just finished reading Carl... Continue Reading
Confessional Discipleship (Part 1)
Make use of our confessional documents for Christian discipleship in the context of the local church.
Though we may not have all the answers for every question of situational ethics, of this much we can be sure: The Westminster Standards address many of the significant theological and practical matters for Christian discipleship better than we could on our own. If we are to equip congregants to be sound in the faith,... Continue Reading
Reaping the Woke Church We Have Sown
The American churchgoer is trained to view the church with the sole purpose of making people happy, commonly labeled as moralistic therapeutic deism.
The remaking a Christianity without standards has been a deadly project. Now we are faced with culture demanding that happiness equates with the freedom to marry the same sex, the freedom to identify with whatever gender one decides, and freedom to obliterate distinctions between men and women. Further, intersectionality and critical race theory demand full... Continue Reading
Don’t Drop the Rock!
Sin is never simple. Sin is never harmless. Sin is always selfish, always an occasion of harm not only to the sinner but to the whole church.
This puts the call on every well-known pastor, every high-demand conference speaker, every bestselling author, to see their popularity as sacred, to see their integrity as essential, to know the importance of battling hard against the first stirrings of the least sin. For they must know that the destruction that would come with their fall... Continue Reading
5 Myths about Being a Pastor’s Wife
What every congregation needs to see is a family serving God with wholehearted devotion while dealing with the realities of sinful parents raising sinful children in this fallen world.
Bless your pastor’s wife by freeing her to serve her King with the specific gift he has granted her. Whatever her spiritual gift is, it may be invisible to many in the congregation. I believe the greatest spiritual gift she can give to her church is to love and care for her pastor-husband in all... Continue Reading
This Neo-liberalism is Worse than Neo-Orthodoxy
Neo-liberalism is subtle, insidious and dangerous; it’s a new form of legalism affecting the Church.
Marxism has a long history of opposition to Christianity. This opposition to Christ is already being proclaimed in the church by Neo-Marxists, and they are being aided and abetted by the Neo-liberal ministers in the Church. The message of Marx is legalism—tyrannical legalism. The message of Christ is the gospel. The message of Marx leads... Continue Reading
The Pastors’ College: Spurgeon’s Vision for Church-Based Training
Rather than allowing the college to substitute for the church, students were immersed in the life of a vibrant church.
Today, many churches have outsourced pastoral training to para-church institutions. Certainly, seminaries and Bible schools still play a vitally important role in theological training. But there is a great loss when pastoral training is entirely separated from the local church. As theological training becomes more flexible with online and modular formats, there is a growing opportunity... Continue Reading
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