What lies in the heart is truer than what lies on the surface (1 Samuel 16:7). Man focuses on the outward; God, the inward. When we’re committed to the truth, we’re committed to the inward. We humble ourselves to be shaped by God’s Word, and we open ourselves up to the possibility that God is... Continue Reading

Scripture commands daily encouragement because without it a man’s heart grows hard and vulnerable to temptation [Heb. 3:13]. Affirmation is spiritual warfare.   “I can live two months on one good compliment…” — Mark Twain Jeff Foxworthy recently told a story about being mentored by Truett Cathy. Jeff grew up in the same town as... Continue Reading

The Church must refuse the cultural catechisms of our age—those liturgies of grievance, identity tallies, and the competitive race to victimhood. These frameworks dress themselves in a form of righteousness but produce only bitterness and perpetual hunger. Advent bids us away from such a fast masquerading as a lack of justice. Advent beckons us to... Continue Reading

In most of biblically recorded history, God’s people were seeking to live faithfully during seemingly mundane times. Most people throughout history lived and died without ever witnessing anything we today would label “miraculous,” and yet every single one of those people had direct access to the work of God’s Spirit…Want to know where the Spirit... Continue Reading

Protestant Switzerland regarded Zwingli as a martyr for the truth. We can look back on him today as a hero of the faith—flawed, as all heroes are, but a mighty instrument of God who pointed the church of his day to Jesus Christ as the unique Savior of sinners.   Ulrich Zwingli (or Huldrych Zwingli)... Continue Reading

Chick-fil-A built a business model based almost entirely on faith. And frankly, that means they should be held to a higher standard. Yes, there are local operators with diverse objectives and opinions, but for the sake of the company’s broader character, those individual franchises should be held to a moral code that reflects Chick-fil-A’s stated... Continue Reading

Protecting one’s moral faculties to pursue moral goods by law ensures human beings and communities reach their proper end, which is consistent with the idea of the common good in Christian social teaching. From this perspective, free speech is a matter of political justice, since speech allows us as created beings and citizens to obtain... Continue Reading

How then does Psalm 16 prophecy the resurrection of Christ? It does so like this: It says, with a glorious shining assurance, that when a man walks this earth who truly loves God alone with a pure and undivided devotion all the days of his life, that man will not—cannot!—die and his body rot. It simply cannot... Continue Reading

Discipleship is not merely a matter of thinking rightly; it is about loving rightly. Augustine said it plainly: sin is disordered love, and salvation is the reordering of our loves toward God. The psalmist prayed, “Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth I desire besides you” (Ps 73:25). True... Continue Reading

The decision to disaffiliate comes months after senior pastor Burk Parsons was suspended indefinitely from the pulpit after being found ‘guilty ‘of unbecoming pastoral conduct by the PCA’s Central Florida Presbytery. Parsons previously plead guilty to similar charges in 2019 and received admonition at that time.   Saint Andrew’s Chapel, a prominent Presbyterian Church in... Continue Reading