No matter what the challenges are in your church right now, remember what Jesus told that father: “All things are possible for one who believes.” (Mark 9:23) In prayer, we believe and ask God to help our unbelief (Mark 9:24). Here are five things that will only happen in your church by prayer.   The longer... Continue Reading

Your life is in His hands. The journey isn’t painless, of course, but it will have finally done what it was sent to do. It has brought you to the end of yourself and into the beginning of real obedience. And from that place, everything changes.   The wilderness was never meant to be your... Continue Reading

Although the moral-spiritual benefits of the Sabbath are uppermost, the benefit of the day’s physical rest is important, too. Indeed, the Sabbath’s physical rest facilitates and complements the believer’s resting upon Christ by faith. That heaven has granted to the beasts this rest proves the reality of physical benefit for both man and beast. How?... Continue Reading

It was the approach of New England, which aspired to build a godly commonwealth, replete with established church and the power to expel or punish those that dissented, and to encourage a high view of worldly labors as service to God. That degenerated pretty quickly: New England theology “moved from high orthodoxy around 1650 to... Continue Reading

No one in the SBC will be “harassed” for holding to the faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3)—including Nicene orthodoxy. But where he will feel pushback is when he starts wandering away from Baptist confessional commitments. To put it bluntly, no Anglican is going to feel comfortable teaching in our seminaries.... Continue Reading

What will my obituary cause others to ponder? What can I do now to make them linger then on the sweetness of the gospel and the hope that can be ours in Christ? Will they look back on my life and say, indeed, death was swallowed up in victory?   On July 24th, the famous wrestler, known... Continue Reading

While the vision of God with the soul was the chief and highest good of man for the Dutch Reformed, it was also accompanied by a vision of the glorified human nature of Christ with enlightened physical eyes. This meant that man’s blessedness was a complete blessedness. In other words, man would be blessed in... Continue Reading

While slouching may not be sinful, it can create an atmosphere of disregard, carelessness, and sloth. It favors bad habits that may facilitate vice. Hence, people can combat these horrible consequences by living up to standards of propriety that favor effort and consideration in a well-ordered society.   One great tragedy of radical individualism was... Continue Reading

We worship on a Sunday because it’s fitting to do so: not only are we celebrating the resurrection, but we are stepping into a new creation. The Church is the clearest breaking in of the new age into this dying world. Sunday worship is a model for new creation living.   There is some debate... Continue Reading

We need training to desire what is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, and anything worthy of praise—“think about these things” (Philippians 4:8). Fight the drag of being entertained by lies. Don’t permit what dishonors others. Be against what is impure.   Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war,... Continue Reading