If brothers are willing to submit to our constitution despite privately desiring women’s ordination, then they are welcome. But it is time to cease both the sophistry and evasion on this point as well as the open attempts to make the PCA into something it never has been—and by God’s grace—never will be.   One... Continue Reading

Words of rebuke have a special capacity to lay our hearts bare and promote significant progress in our spiritual lives. May we humbly submit to this tough means of grace for the glory of God and the good of our souls.   Our ability to receive rebuke from others is a quality essential to our... Continue Reading

The Lord is not withholding blessings because He is uncaring or apathetic. Rather, He is cultivating capacity because He is wise. What He has prepared for you requires a version of you that does not yet exist. Said another way, God is preparing you for what He has prepared for you.   I’ve sat with... Continue Reading

As a wise pastor once observed, our children will remember all sorts of things about us, but the way in which we die is what they will most remember about our faith.   In a recent episode of “60 Minutes,” interviewer Scott Pelley said to his guest, “You don’t have much time. Why are you... Continue Reading

If we believe we can bring about the outcomes we desire, we will blame ourselves when those outcomes don’t actualize. God doesn’t need us to bring about good outcomes. He’s got that part. He calls us to pursue faithfulness. That’s something that, by his grace, we can handle.   My two fellow pastors and I... Continue Reading

Jesus promised, “I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand” (John 10:28). We don’t cling out of fear of losing Him, rather we cling because nothing can separate us from His love. This is where our journey begins, not with our strength, but... Continue Reading

“I’ve been in work and life situations that seemed hopeless.Sometimes I received counsel to give up, but God gave me grace to persevere, and many times I was a better person for it, and good came from it.”   Are you familiar with The Stockdale Paradox? It was popularized by Jim Collins in his excellent... Continue Reading

There are times…when we will sin against one another.  And the danger is that if we react to that sin out of our old nature with anger, rage, bitterness, slander and malice, we’ll destroy the church.   We’re spending a few weeks looking at some of the ‘one another’ commands God gives his church as we... Continue Reading

The Christian Stoic does not serve the Inner Critic. The drill sergeant has been replaced by the Advocate. We fight our sin not out of a terrifying fear of failure, but from the secure, unshakeable foundation of a son who knows he is already loved and justified by his Father.   Every man has a... Continue Reading

The Gospel transcends denominational boundaries. God saves them in spite of what we have articulated are errors in the Eastern Orthodox Church. I have personally witnessed this even among Roman Catholics. I personally know this because I was one of them.   The Eastern Orthodox Church has held an allure among Evangelical Protestant Christians for... Continue Reading