I aimed to argue clearly and concisely, based on Scripture, against the use of terms that dehumanize men who – although their wickedness be manifested in monstrous behaviors – nevertheless, remain men created in the image of God, however marred and perverted the divine image in them may be. Unfortunately, today’s culture provides no shortage... Continue Reading

Perhaps nowhere is Pink’s distinctive voice more clearly heard than in The Sovereignty of God. First published in 1918, and later edited to refine its predestinarian edges, it set forth a stark and glorious vision of divine sovereignty. As Iain Murray notes, Pink “served to inspire a vision which was wider, grander and more fundamental... Continue Reading

The reporter described the unseating of three “Machenite” commissioners, “ all members of the rebel Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions,” and quoted the response of conservative leader and Machen ally, H. McAllister Griffiths: “The machine may find out that its high-handed tactics have at last awakened the Church to Modernist tyranny.” What the “Machinists”... Continue Reading

Across the country, churches are embracing physical challenges alongside spiritual devotion. Jiu-Jitsu ministries, weightlifting groups, and faith-based fitness programs are on the rise—not as gimmicks, but as a revival of an older, truer form of Christian manhood…Men who have spent years being told that their instincts are dangerous, their ambition oppressive, and their masculinity a... Continue Reading

What if Agnes Shankle had stayed silent? What if she had simply gone with the pulpit committee’s judgment? What if she had thought, “Who am I to speak up? I’m just a Sunday school teacher.” In the entire one-hundred-and-fifty years of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, this might prove to be the most decisive moment. Had... Continue Reading

The future of the art of apologizing without repentance may be seen from a redraft of David’s Psalm 51 in modern terms. “Please let me off the hook, and do not punish me, O God. According to your vacuum of justice, redefine my “sin.” Surely it is not as bad as the preacher and other... Continue Reading

Warfield did not merely have a ready pen, but a powerfully precise one harnessed for the propagation of the Reformed faith, or what Warfield deemed as nothing less than biblical Christianity. He was regarded as the apologist for the Reformed faith in the English speaking world during his life-time. Despite being misrepresented by scholars of... Continue Reading

The evangelical Christians still in Gaza suffer along with its 2 million inhabitants. Lack of food, water, shelter, and sewage is their daily fare, along with deadly bombings, artillery and gunfire. What should Christians do in response to this situation? Without resolving political issues, Christians may manifest Abraham’s compassion. He prayed for the cities of... Continue Reading

Throughout history, most local churches have been monoethnic, not necessarily due to any intentional discrimination or segregation, but simply because most societies naturally tend toward ethnic homogeneity over time (mass transportation and immigration make us the exception today). Now it certainly would be sinful for churches to exclude or segregate on the basis of ethnicity,... Continue Reading

What the culture presents to Christians as treasure is, in truth, only so much trash, rubbish, and garbage. The Apostle Paul clearly understood this, confessing: “Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord”... Continue Reading