The Good Shepherd was both tender and tough. Regardless of our natural tendencies, we must strive to embody the heart of our Good Shepherd, who was neither lenient toward sin nor harsh with the broken and weak. By doing so, we will more closely reflect the heart of our Master.   “Truly, truly, I say... Continue Reading

The Gnostics maintained a sharp division between the inward/spiritual and the outward/physical, which led them to define their identity by looking inwardly to their divine spark. They also sought to escape the world as a means of salvation, since the physical world was evil and designed to deceive and trap people with its lies.  ... Continue Reading

This article is a mere summary of RPR’s actions and is not intended to be comprehensive or exhaustive. The full report will be made available to commissioners in coming weeks. Moreover, the actions of RPR are not final; they simply make recommendations to the General Assembly who may approve, reject, or amend these recommendations when... Continue Reading

We need the faith of the ages, not the reconstructions of a therapeutically driven or commercially inspired faith. And we need it, not least, because without it our postmodern world will become starved for the Word of God.   The following article is an excerpt from David F. Wells’s 1999 work entitled Losing Our Virtue:... Continue Reading

We must distinguish between offense given and offense taken. Indeed, good men, if not associated loved ones, were unfortunately and unnecessarily offended, but whose intention was it to act in a way that would necessarily stir up such strife about named individuals? Certainly not Bryan Chapell’s! Indeed, Bryan is 100% responsible for his thoughts that... Continue Reading

Humans have a tendency to react to social and cultural chaos by looking back for things that are lost, just as humans have a tendency to be captured by new, dangerous ideas. While any rejection of the foolishness of the last decade is welcome, indulging nostalgia is no more of a strategy than claiming “progress.”... Continue Reading

Barna declared that “Churches that fail to persistently teach reasons why the Bible can be trusted, what moral truth is, why it must be understood as absolute rather than situational, and facilitate accountability for the application of biblical truth in our personal lives are not churches with biblical purpose and power, but merely pawns of... Continue Reading

What I found in Van Til was a profound and refreshingly biblical explanation of the unbeliever’s heart and mind (Rom. 1:18–23)—a revelation (to me) of a fundamental aspect of biblical anthropology. Unbelievers are truth-suppressors. They know the true God, but they suppress that truth through their unrighteous behavior. Their thinking is futile, their hearts are... Continue Reading

To define or quantify evil is to try to contain and control it. Yet evil is insidious and shape-shifting. If you think you’re exempt, you’re vulnerable. The lessons of Reserve Police Battalion 101, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the Milgram experiments—in each, ordinary people, placed under particular social pressures, engaged in actions they might otherwise... Continue Reading

The Overture bears the burden of showing why the PCA’s Constitution must be changed to permit sessions to admit young persons to the Lord’s Supper and to prevent them from voting in the congregational election of church officers. The Overture has not met this burden. Neither the biblical nor the constitutional-historical arguments proposed in the... Continue Reading