The problem with our religious good works is that we are attempting to “serve God” or “do good things” without being in a right relationship with God and without understanding how He wants to be served. Our good works are pure presumption and cannot be the means by which we are reconciled to God.   ... Continue Reading

The doctrines of justification and union with Christ are the best pieces of news sinners in this sin-scarred world could ever hear. What we never could have dreamed has become ours. And what we have no capacity to earn is now ours in Christ.   The Need for Sacrifice I spent one year in my... Continue Reading

The announcement follows the appointment of Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury. Gafcon was one of the first to denounce her appointment on 3 October, calling on Mullally to repent for her support of same-sex blessings.   The Gafcon movement of orthodox Anglicans is forging its own path away from the leadership... Continue Reading

The so-called instruments of unity, which have in reality proven to be instruments of doctrinal deviation and division, are no longer recognised. The Communion is now reset (not replaced but reset) as the Global Anglican Communion and we are looking forward to a new era of evangelism, mission, growing mature and Christ-like churches, and a... Continue Reading

Vos’s insights concerning Biblical Theology are numerous and influential….[Vos’s] insights should significantly prompt Evangelicals to recognize that the work of the biblical theologian is to replicate as accurately as possible God’s progressive revelation of Himself in harmony with His redemptive deeds, as portrayed for us in the Bible’s storyline from Genesis to Revelation.   Many... Continue Reading

The Bible is explicit regarding the desperate consequences of sin, the reality of eternal punishment, the urgency of the gospel, and God’s command for people to place their dependence on the finished work of Christ for forgiveness of their sin and restoration to God.   I sat across the table from a young man with... Continue Reading

Don’t hide but walk in the light and confess your sins. Don’t hope in a silver bullet but be prepared to walk the long path of repentance. And, above all, don’t collapse into self-loathing but bring your sins to your wonderful, merciful Savior and receive his words of absolution: “Your sins are forgiven.”   Log... Continue Reading

Kids need their parents to help them become the kind of people who want to do good and avoid evil, not because it’s profitable, but because it’s right. They need years of practicing discernment and developing integrity in order to live faithfully online where indulgence, addiction—and increasingly, radicalization—are common.   There is growing momentum among... Continue Reading

Because God created humans to worship, music is inescapably a form of worship, for better or worse. Ultimately, real people should be creating music because people were created to worship with music. As the psalmist sang, “My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.”   According to... Continue Reading

“It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God – men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These men mould a generation for God.”  ... Continue Reading