I would encourage fathers and brothers to consider the overture to form a committee with open minds….Perhaps in the last 50 years, the PCA has grown in maturity and can have discussions she was unable to have in her early days. Such would be a worthy endeavor to finish the unfinished business of the PCA’s... Continue Reading

Natural theology does not begin from atheistic anthropology, according to which man does not possess an innate idea of God. Natural theology begins from the common epistemic faculties of human beings and the evidence of the external world. Together, Vos argues, these provide all people, whatever their ideological presuppositions, with testimony of God.   Even before attending... Continue Reading

When Jesus explains the parable of the weeds, He seals His teaching with a promise: though we live in a day of mixed growth as the kingdom slowly grows from small to large and slowly becomes pervasive, the day is coming when that growth will be complete. The day is coming when there will be... Continue Reading

In Matthew 24:50, the coming of Christ is mentioned as a terror to those who so much as begin to smite their fellow-servants. We may wrangle and stand out one against another in our contentions now, but it will not be so easy to answer Jesus Christ as it is to answer back to one... Continue Reading

God envisions a life in which His creation spent at least 1/7 of our time on earth resting. Resting in Him. In his love. It seems that God can get along better without our work than we can. And what I’m learning over the last few years is that I’m a better leader, better husband... Continue Reading

My world talks a lot about church-planting. We need more churches in the UK, especially in a number of harder and poorer areas. We don’t talk so much about strengthening churches and growing people to maturity. We need both. This is, of course, one of the reasons why we need to work in teams. Leadership... Continue Reading

Local believers need to be raised up who can write local songs, hymns, and spiritual songs for the church and then go on to lead and play them skillfully. Because of my grandmom, I know the potential impact of this kind of work. Through good songs, local believers can unstoppably retain and reproduce truths from... Continue Reading

A large number of overtures deal with judicial procedure. Overture 1 seeks to ensure that church courts can determine whether there is enough evidence (etc.) to move forward to charges in a discipline case. Overture 7, which makes it easier for groups of presbyteries or the General Assembly to intervene in cases brought against a... Continue Reading

Spurgeon taught that words carried reality to the mind. God made Adam talk and give names to all other living things so that he could distinguish clearly between himself and them. In the same way, God has revealed Himself and his view of and purpose for the world and its creatures, particularly his image-bearers, in... Continue Reading

A Christian can defeat himself in two ways: one is to forget the holiness of God and the fact that sin is sin. The Bible calls us to an ever deeper commitment in giving ourselves to Christ for Him to produce His fruit through us. The other is to allow himself to be worn out... Continue Reading