Everhard takes up the 1647 version of the Westminster Confession of Faith, a document of some weight and significance for Reformed Christians. His choice of this version of the Confession, over other ones, makes his book useful for the various flavors of Presbyterians in the United States and throughout the West. But the fact that... Continue Reading

The book describes a Europe under threat from terrorists, from anarchists, dynamiters and assassins. To meet the threat, London’s Metropolitan Police have formed an elite anti-anarchist squad, tasked to infiltrate the enemy. Following up a chance conversation, undercover detective Gabriel Syme attends a meeting of the General Council of the Anarchists of Europe, and is... Continue Reading

The surge of interest in liberal religion, many say, reflects the renewed vitality of religious history more generally, which has spread beyond its traditional redoubts in divinity schools to become one of the most popular specializations among academic historians, according to the American Historical Association. Some scholars say that frustration with the perceived cultural and... Continue Reading

Postmodernism states there is no objective truth, and to insist that there is (in this case, judicial law, juries, trial, evidence) is to impose violence. Postmodernism says that one’s experience and emotions are sufficient to weigh ‘reality’ whatever that is. So “in our hearts” is sufficient. Zimmerman is guilty because “we feel that he is.”... Continue Reading

Yet such an honorable intention fails to recognize the irrational and demonic corporate power committed to afflicting a generation with gender disintegration. To benignly ‘not judge’ that corporate power could mean a lack of pastoral clarity that subjects those afflicted with SSA to a nauseous blend of worshipping both God and Baal.   As the... Continue Reading

But God’s ways are not our ways, and God’s wrath is not like our wrath….British scholar Tony Lane explains that “the love of God implies his wrath. Without his wrath God simply does not love in the sense that the Bible portrays his love.” God’s love is not sentimental; it is holy. It is tender,... Continue Reading

What infuriated the establishment most were the claims to Lordship, the posture of authority, the exalted titles, the exercise of Messiahship, the presumed right to forgive, the way in which Jesus put himself in the center of Israel’s story, the delusions of grandeur, the acceptance of worship, and the audacity of man being God. Jesus... Continue Reading

I had never known that Gutenberg’s dream for his moveable-type printing press was the spread of the gospel. In his words I can hear his heart for sharing the good news of Jesus with multitudes in darkness and ignorance. Gutenberg’s passion stirs me. I want to increase in a burden to spread the gospel to... Continue Reading

Ignore all the materials that sell you the “10 steps to a happy marriage” study guides and show this couple preparing for marriage what God says marriage is and what He expects of them in it.  Use all the Bible, not just Ephesians 5 and 1 Peter 3.  Use Genesis 1-3, Proverbs 5, Song of Songs,... Continue Reading

The study suggests the rising rate stems from a snowball effect. As the baby boom generation greys, it represents the “first cohort to divorce and remarry in large numbers during young adulthood.” Married people who have previously been divorced are 2.5 times more likely to divorce again, so as baby boomers enter their second or... Continue Reading