The rejection of the normative reality of male and female for our lives is the source of the radicalism of same-sex marriage. It dethrones male and female from their place as essential aspects of who we are, degrading them into mere objects of subjective sexual desire. This is a denial of God and of His... Continue Reading

Disparities come about for all sort of reasons.…Thomas Sowell is one clear thinker who has discussed this in detail. He has penned dozens of vitally important books that dissect and dismantle the reigning leftist orthodoxies.   Why do some people, or groups, or nations, seem to do better than others in various ways? The standard... Continue Reading

The church can teach that liberty must be ordered without claiming the state’s office. The church can declare that rulers are accountable to God without giving the magistrate the keys of the kingdom.   This article is not intended to replace, summarize, or correct the PCA’s ongoing study of Christian Nationalism. That work deserves careful... Continue Reading

Jesus told us to consider the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. He pointed to ordinary things that people passed every day and used them to reveal extraordinary truths about His Father’s care. Standing beneath this old fir, I’ve begun to wonder whether that invitation extends farther than flowers and sparrows.... Continue Reading

No one watching an accomplished couple would conclude that the dancers are interchangeable. Their movements are different precisely because they are dancing together. Their differences do not diminish the dance; they create it. Scripture presents marriage in much the same way. Men and women possess equal dignity because both bear God’s image (Genesis 1:27), yet... Continue Reading

In 2021, Neland Avenue CRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan ordained a deacon in a same-sex marriage. A group of unrenowned pastors and lay leaders started the Abide Project with the goal to maintain biblical sexuality in the CRC. The conflict came to a head in 2022 when the CRC’s annual synod adopted the Human Sexuality... Continue Reading

Pastors, do the reading first. Do the struggling first. Bring your confusion and partial understanding to the text before you bring your question to any resource, digital or otherwise. Arrive at your study having already sat with the passage long enough to know what you do not yet understand. Then, if you reach for AI... Continue Reading

My position is derived from understanding the reason for the change to WLC 109 and the omitting of any change whatsoever to WLC 108. In WLC 109 regarding what sins are forbidden in the second commandment, the original version (1646) said that “tolerating a false religion” is breaking the second commandment.  Our American forefathers removed... Continue Reading

Critiques of political rulers based on Presbyterianism was nowhere more pronounced in the case of English and Scottish exiles who brought the ideals of Geneva home to their respective realms.  Among the first advocates of Presbyterianism, such as Knox in Scotland and Thomas Cartwright in England, this new church government not only questioned the rule... Continue Reading

If Scripture is right, no political system can solve mankind’s deepest problem The Reformers understood that sin had not merely damaged humanity but had corrupted every faculty of our being. We still bear God’s image and remain capable of astonishing courage, creativity, generosity, and sacrifice. But we are also fallen.   As New York’s mayor... Continue Reading