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
The Leadership Limp
The effective and resilient leaders are those who walk with a visible limp.
Leadership brings with it long days and high levels of pressure. That is not going to change. But leaders who are deeply mindful of their dependence on God are far better equipped to make it in the long haul. That may mean being honest in a meeting about a pending decision and admitting to... Continue Reading
Update From the PCA SJC on the Greg Johnson Case
The PCA Standing Judicial Commission’s update on the Greg Johnson case.
The SJC has also received the complaint filed by a teaching elder in Missouri Presbytery against Missouri’s refusal to find a strong presumption of guilt against Johnson. That complaint has been denied by the presbytery, and the elder filing it has taken it to the SJC.As indicated in its statement, the SJC officers will recommend... Continue Reading
The Eclipse of the Gospel and the School of Hard Knox
Once again, the gospel is being eclipsed by man-made philosophy and foolishness.
As Christ-followers, we must learn well the lessons that church history teaches us. When we forget the past we falter in our faith and fail to exalt the sovereign purposes of our Savior. When we forget the past, we become comfortable stumbling around in the dark and begin to glory in our ignorance. Let us... Continue Reading
Sexuality and Identity: A Pastoral Statement from the College of Bishops
In this pastoral statement, we seek to address the need we perceive for greater clarity regarding pastoral ministry to those who self-identify as Christians and who are same-sex attracted.
We also recognize that neither of the identifying phrases is ideal, and we know that the language of same-sex attraction carries potential grief for some. Nevertheless, the theological and pastoral misgivings we share with regard to the terms “gay Christian” and “same-sex attraction” are significant. This language skews how scripture identifies Christians in the direction... Continue Reading
The Greatest Christians and the Most Visible Gifts
The captain of a great steamship may have called for “full speed ahead,” but he himself was powerless to actually make it happen.
Might it not be that the effectiveness of sermons depends as much upon the prayers of the unseen saints as the preparation and delivery of even the greatest preachers? Might it not be that true power comes not from the one standing on the stage but the one kneeling behind it? Might it not be... Continue Reading
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