“Evangelicals who only speak profusely of God’s love have, I fear, too often discarded his holiness. As A. W. Tozer observed more than a generation ago, “we lack reverence—not because we are free in the gospel, but because God is absent, and we have no sense of His presence.” We offer to others a message of salvation... Continue Reading

“The house churches are not legally protected, so authorities can tolerate them one day and shut them down the next, if political orders came down to tighten up. The Party is under increasing pressure to change the way it regards the desire for faith; China today has sixty to eighty million Christians, a community as... Continue Reading

“This attack on evangelicals is a pre-emptive strike anticipating the debate on the acceptance of practicing homosexuals on Wednesday. Brand opponents as “grumbling grunters” and you can ignore their appeal to Scripture and the unbroken tradition of the historic church. In a few years time you can demand that they toe the line or leave!”... Continue Reading

He states that his primary reason is theological. I wonder about that. Put simply, his primary reason seems to be that since we don’t know what the church of the future will look like, he will stay put for now, because God is constantly overturning our expectations.   Over at First Things, Peter Leithart has... Continue Reading

That welcoming of sinners from diverse national, ethnic, economic, etc., backgrounds won’t break the PCA. Rather, by God’s grace that people-diversity will strengthen His Church. What WILL break the PCA is the diversity of theology and worship beyond the bounds of our Constitution and the regulative principle, both firmly based on Scripture, now found and... Continue Reading

Leading others is significantly easier when followers enjoy being around the leader, and interpersonally gifted people are at a significant advantage in power… The higher the level of the job, the less important technical skills and cognitive abilities were and the more important competence in emotional intelligence became.   I’ve just finished one of the... Continue Reading

We obey the commandments, therefore, not in order to merit God’s favor, but out of gratitude for his favor. Don’t forget that the Ten Commandments were given to Israel after God delivered them from Egypt. The law was a response to redemption not a cause of it. We must never separate law from gospel. In one sense,... Continue Reading

Anglicanism in the sixteenth century was consciously not a via media between Rome and Geneva, but between Geneva and Wittenberg. As Alister McGrath has observed, ‘the “middle way” which resulted was neither Calvinist nor Lutheran- but it was certainly Protestant.’ While Calvinists were the dominant theological force throughout the century, they never succeeded in making the worship... Continue Reading

In fact, with prayerful, decisive action now to correct some things, the future is still both exciting and promising. But there is substantial reason to suggest it is in the initial stages of apostatizing. The patterns are disturbingly familiar vis-à-vis the former PCUS from which the PCA separated as a continuing church in 1973. Doctrinal... Continue Reading

Since persecution is a blessing and God’s power is behind us, then bring it on! As Christians, belonging to Jesus Christ means more to us than anything in this world. We would give our backs to the whip, our houses to the flames, our faces to fists, our dignity to mockery, our bodies to torture,... Continue Reading