We are naïve and we need instruction, and the writings of the Old Testament give us just that. Specifically, the result of this instruction is hope for God’s people. These writings should help us endure, and the Scriptures should encourage us to hope.   When I sit down for breakfast, I don’t think much about... Continue Reading

Abigail reminded David of his identity: “The Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord, and evil has not been found in you all your days.” When strange, obsessive thoughts push us toward actions that displease God, we must remember who we are as children... Continue Reading

“How will this affect their souls?” Love for the souls of your children is the quintessence of all love. To pet and pamper and indulge your child, as if this world was all he had to look to, and this life the only season for happiness—to do this is not true love, but cruelty.  ... Continue Reading

While it’s good to teach the details of the plan of salvation, we tend to think that understanding those details is how you get saved. The result isn’t faith in Jesus; it’s faith in the cross, or faith in a plan, or even faith in faith. Yikes again! Saving faith is faith in Jesus as... Continue Reading

We will get the dust of the world upon us. We do need, every day and throughout the day, to come and ask for Jesus to cleanse us when sin has crept into our hearts and lives. Sin interrupts our fellowship with God and man and should be dealt with immediately.   It was one... Continue Reading

The consequences of his withdrawing his resignation I have mentioned above. The office of stated clerk would be reduced in effectiveness and esteem by doing so, and the PCA would be worse for it. Chapell would be put in an impossible position which he lacked the personal capital – the respect and confidence of others... Continue Reading

The progressive left is happy for American Christianity to be privatized. They are more than happy to subsidize the evangelicals’ tax-exempt irrelevance. It is the denominations they fear. That is why they have captured the major ones and are frustrated that the SBC still eludes them. To my friends in the SBC, I say: do... Continue Reading

The book, thankfully, doesn’t offer neat answers, tied up firmly like a shoelace. It doesn’t promise that darkness will lift, but what it does do is point to Christ. It points to Christ to declare that He is the one who truly understands what we may be going through.   Would it surprise you to... Continue Reading

How many bright candlesticks of the past have long ago gone out? While the reasons vary, they all have this common denominator, they forgot Christ. They forgot His Word, His glory, His grace, His power, they forgot Him. To forget Christ is to forget the gospel. To forget the gospel is to forget everything. Do... Continue Reading

In his final speech, Job takes an oath to the effect that he has not sinned like the first sinner, but where Adam failed, he has succeeded. While he suffered in innocence, Job became the typological spokesman of the last Adam, who is the only One who could say such a thing (Romans 5:12–21; 1... Continue Reading