Pray for owners or managers to have wisdom, for good planning and success, for humility to see where they are failing in leadership and relationships. This is very much needed for all of us where we work. Let’s do the right thing and pray for management.   In Psalm 20, a group of people, either... Continue Reading

When you learn to find answers within the text itself, Bible study becomes much more satisfying. Instead of fostering dependence on experts, you develop confidence that God’s Word is accessible to you as an ordinary reader.   I used to panic when I hit a confusing Bible verse. My instinct was to immediately grab a... Continue Reading

If you are a regenerate Christian…think about this amazing truth: everything you are to do is to be imitated by all the people in the world….All of this should make us who are, by grace, in Christ, humble, grateful, prayerful, and desirous of being models of the love and mercy of Jesus and His gospel... Continue Reading

Is your faith alive? I’m not talking about Christianized comfort here. The kind of faith that bleeds, marches, cries, and believes anyway. Because if it is real and if God has lit that flame in you, then it will never go out. Not even under pain, weakness, or physical death. When your lungs collapse and... Continue Reading

While I agree it’s important to learn from tragic events that occur outside our immediate community, we can become overwhelmed by the barrage of negative news. We’re not created to soak in every tragedy as if it were ours. “Progress,” like Drummond says, “has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it.” It... Continue Reading

Bestowing titles not found in the church order, especially when they are suspiciously adjacent or similar to the actual PCA officer titles, can be deceptive, unwise, unhelpful, and may undermine good order. Still, the lack of fixed definitions, standards, or processes for these non-standard, non-officer titles makes ruling on them a subjective matter. Who leads... Continue Reading

Eschatology is fascinating, and while Jesus stated plainly that no one knows the “day and hour” of His return, He was crystal clear that He will return. And, in Revelation, Jesus is recorded as announcing, “Behold, I am making all things new” (21:5). In other words, the Bible’s focus when it comes to eschatology is not so... Continue Reading

Samson clearly follows Moses’s pattern but not his posture. Moses delivers Israel; Samson delivers only himself. Moses sings with others to the Lord; Samson sings alone and only for himself. Moses intercedes for Israel; Samson complains like the Israelites. The story rhymes with Moses’s but in a deliberately discordant key.    History doesn’t repeat itself,... Continue Reading

People often say, “I’m tired of living up to other people’s expectations. I need to be who I am.” Ironically, who I am is not the solution; it’s the problem. When you are a sinner, “Be true to yourself” is bad advice….Finding myself is not the solution. Only losing myself in finding Christ is the... Continue Reading

My conversion was messy and dangerous. I lost friends and cultural capital. I did not lose my job because I was tenured, but I did have to go before my tenure board and explain what happened to me. That was fun. I was now despised by the people I loved, but one thing was clear—I was... Continue Reading