How to Stay Christian in Seminary: Juggling Multiple Callings
“You have a lifetime of ministry, but only three or four years to become a specialist in God’s Word,” Dr. Strimple told me. “Think of the health of those you’ll be serving—they deserve your best now, which is to be a student.” Dr. Horton wrote this post in relation to a series done over at... Continue Reading
Forsaken for Us and for Our Salvation
Hsu spends the rest of the article answering these questions, but his answers may surprise you: God did not turn his back on his Son, he did not forsake the perfect God-man, he did not pour his wrath out on Jesus Christ as he hung on the cross Two days before Good Friday, InterVarsity Press... Continue Reading
When Does the “Big Tent” Become “Too” Big? A Look at the PCA Prior to General Assembly (Part II)
Unless we have been living under a rock or in a garage, the demise of many ecclesiastical denominations have been clearly portrayed before our very eyes, and yet for whatever reason, there are those who believe such a demise cannot happen to us. In this series of articles (Part I), we are asking a question... Continue Reading
Let Us Not Mock God with Metaphor – John Updike on the Resurrection
The Pulitzer Prize winning writer John Updike is not one who readily comes to mind as someone who held the historic Christian faith. But he did in the sense that confessed the Apostles’ Creed taking the words to mean what they say. He once said, “I call myself a Christian by defining ‘a Christian’ as... Continue Reading
A Conspicuous Absence – Why there is no Separation of Church and State Outcry on North Carolina’s Proposition One Debate
I was appalled. A sign in front of a Baptist church in Charlotte openly advocates its opposition to Proposition One in North Carolina. The proposition, which is due to go to the ballot in NC on May 8, 2012, reads: “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall... Continue Reading
What we tell our kids about the Easter Bunny
Just as early missionaries didn’t reject or receive the pagan holiday of Eostre but rather redeemed it for Jesus, we too seek to redeem the cultural practices we observe in the U.S. without letting them overshadow Jesus and his Resurrection, and without making us completely irrelevant or even antagonistic to culture and those weird Christians... Continue Reading
He Buried 200 Church Members
If I am thinking that I am going to have to speak at someone’s funeral and comfort their family then I should be preparing for this service to them by serving them in life. I need to know and care for them now. As this seasoned pastors said so well, these files, these funerals are... Continue Reading
Is There Such A Thing as Christian Education? In short, YES!!
Here as elsewhere, the “facts” are never in the raw; it makes a universe of difference whether they’re learned within the context of the fear of the Lord, or not. If that is true in sex education, it’s true in all education This month’s edition of Ordained Servant Online includes an article by Dr. David... Continue Reading
The virtue of questioning ‘science’ – Shall the Pastafarians win?
No doubt Pastafarians of the world (for those of you who don’t know, those are members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster—founded as a gibe at religion as irrational) will titter with glee at this “I-told-you-so” moment. A new sociological study by Gordon Gauchat claims there has been, in the past four decades,... Continue Reading
Our Easter Message – The End of Death
Catholic theologians charge that justification by faith alone is a legal fiction, a “pretend” game in which the Father acts as if His people have been justified by faith alone, when in fact they have not. But justification by faith alone is not fiction because Jesus’ death is not fiction Significant events have phases. In... Continue Reading