Faithfulness in the mundane tasks assigned to us is preparation for bigger things. Not only that but David’s preparation for this battle took place when David began putting the Torah to music using his harp (which would later become the Psalms) while out in the fields keeping the sheep. No doubt, one of the lessons... Continue Reading

Hellish practices are the result of men giving themselves over to one dark and demented belief, namely, that the way to happiness and satisfaction lies in the gratification of one’s flesh rather than its crucifixion; that joy can be had without God; that life can be attained apart from the gospel of grace. It’s not... Continue Reading

When I realise that everything I have – my life, my family, my possessions, my health, my relationships – are ultimately a gift from a good and heavenly Father, my perspective shifts. When I realise that as a sinful, rebellious man I deserve eternal condemnation, not the life I’ve been given, I’m humbled and removed... Continue Reading

Remarkably, when we rush forward to the coming redemption — to God himself coming to rescue his people in Christ — his created order is not abandoned in the church age but endures. Not only is the original order restored through Christ’s redemptive work in the church, but now it is glorified, exalted to a... Continue Reading

First, you have immediate, intimate experience of and incorrigible access to the contents of your soul. Second, your immaterial mental states cannot be reduced to mere physical brain states, because mental things and physical things have completely different properties, so they are not identical. Third, your soul sustains your identity through time even though your... Continue Reading

Between salvation and Sodom there is no middle ground, no safe place to dwell. The Bible tells us to flee from temptation, not flirt with it. To find my identity in Sodom is a fatal attraction and it leads not to life but to judgement. God offers us a way of salvation and we dare... Continue Reading

We want to believe that Christianity is destined to fail, that the remnant will always be the smallest group, and that Satan will always have the upper hand in history. But Jesus did not teach that. Jesus taught a victorious kingdom. A Kingdom that He Himself will build and the gates of hell will not... Continue Reading

As we navigate the complexities of our own time, Vos’s work reminds us that the Bible isn’t merely a collection of ancient texts. Scripture is living and active. It speaks with authority and clarity to the questions and challenges of every generation. Biblical Theology shows us how to discover the richness of the biblical story... Continue Reading

Christianity is relatively unique among theistic worldviews in that it is grounded in a specific claim related to an event in the distant past: the Resurrection. Cold-cases are also grounded in a claim about an event in the distant past; many of the techniques and approaches we take in investigating these murders can be applied... Continue Reading

Sinclair Ferguson, in Things Unseen, says, “… there’s a reason that [worship is] worth thinking about this because a great deal of that kind of talk about worship isn’t really about God at all. It’s about us. And often it’s about what we like, what is according to our taste, more than what He actually... Continue Reading