What is Romans about? It’s about a gospel-transformed apostle who wrote to a gospel-created church about the gospel that changes everything. What does this passage mean for us? If the good news of Jesus was central to Paul, the centerpiece of Scripture, and powerful enough to transform Romans living in a godless world two thousand... Continue Reading

The world sees people as objects to be used for the gratification of others. Pornography and sexually explicit content turn nakedness into a commodity to sell with little to no regard for the naked person. Marketers know that “sex sells” so they pursue money, power, and fame by exploiting the nakedness of others. Even immodesty... Continue Reading

The Association of Protestant Churches, in its 2024 Human Rights Violation Report, documented a rise in hate speech and violence against Christians in Turkey. Among the incidents was an armed attack on the Salvation Church association building in Çekmeköy last December, when an individual fired shots from a car and attempted to remove the church’s signs, the... Continue Reading

Our confidence is that the subduing of the hearts of our covenant offspring will occur along the way, in the context of an intentional full orbed gospel that envelops creation, fall, redemption and consummation (both personal and cosmic). Accordingly, we hold out to our children along life’s way, according to their dynamic (not static) cognitive abilities, a gospel-centric... Continue Reading

Geerhardus Vos is a giant in church history, a man rightly honored as the founder of evangelical Biblical Theology. He taught us that when we read the Bible, we need to acknowledge and account for its “redemptive-historical nature.” Therefore, we should always read the Bible with a sensitivity to the historical progression of God’s redemption... Continue Reading

Our faith is not built on creativity or consensus, but on divine revelation. When pastors and elders resist the temptation to accommodate unbiblical desires, whether in worship, leadership, ethics, or mission, they are modeling what it means to stand under the authority of God’s Word. Over time, that faithfulness forms a people who are not... Continue Reading

The multicultural American experiment is done. The city-to-city era of church planting is living on borrowed time. The church “for the life of the city” is a slogan that proved presumptive. Churchly emphasis on artistic engagement is even worse, and has proven a costly three decade case study in mission drift.   The brilliant, late... Continue Reading

If you stand before God in your sins, you will stand condemned, and you will suffer the consequences of living in rebellion to the living God.But God in His mercy has provided a way of escape. He has given the way to be saved from your sins. And it is not through peace deals, or... Continue Reading

Naturally, Satan and the world have always sought to paint John Calvin in the most negative colors possible–but this is always done to God’s choicest servants.  The Reformer inflicted many fresh wounds onto the crushed head of the old snake–and the devil is seeking (even today) to gain some “pay-back.”   Though I think it is wise and... Continue Reading

Numbers has everything. There are journeys and battles, deliverances and judgments, temptations and failures. The book certainly isn’t nonstop action. There are also travel records, ceremony protocols, and special instructions for certain tribes. So where does the title “Numbers” come from? It chiefly comes from two censuses reported in the book.    The book of... Continue Reading