In post-resurrection political life, government should help people do what Christ redeemed them to do: Govern themselves in holiness and serve one another in love. Just days after Resurrection Sunday, we are all no doubt occupied in our thoughts with the risen Savior. The resurrection of Christ changed everything. The pagan world passed from tragedy... Continue Reading

“The two tentative models presented here may be seen as a work in progress. Both models are heavily under-determined by the data, meaning that there is insufficient data to decide either way. Both models might be false and a third type of model might be waiting in the wings ready to do a much better... Continue Reading

On Sunday morning, 21 May 1922, Harry Emerson Fosdick mounted the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church of New York to preach the most famous sermon of his career, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” Described by Fosdick as a “plea for good will,” the sermon fell like a bombshell on the Presbyterian Church and set in... Continue Reading

Turning your patient into a man-pleaser may require employment of what we have come to call the “rope-a-dope” technique, outlined as follows: First, make things very comfortable in the church for your patient. When he is very much pleased with himself and neither sober nor watchful, but drunk on ease and set to pastoral autopilot,... Continue Reading

But there are costs to being a nation in which we’re all heretics to one another, and no religious orthodoxy commands wide support. Our diversity has made us more tolerant in some respects, but far more polarized in others In American religious history, Nov. 8, 1960, is generally regarded as the date when the presidency... Continue Reading

What I do see is that young people need a clear message. They want that. They want to hear what is right and what is wrong. There is chaos—there is ethical chaos, there is political chaos—now who will give us straight talk? Who tells us what way to go? There is a need for that... Continue Reading

The visible church is for you and me. Put away the Che Guevara t-shirts, stop the revolution, and join the rest of the plodders. Fifty years from now you’ll be glad you did. It’s sexy among young people — my generation — to talk about ditching institutional religion and starting a revolution of real Christ-followers... Continue Reading

My ministerial friends ‘Boy Band’ and ‘the Man that Derek Thomas Could Have Been’ have now dubbed me simply ‘the Anti-Celebrity Celebrity.’ Some are born hypocrites; I have found hypocrisy thrust upon me. T4G made me look like a girlyman. More of that later. When invited to do a breakout at Together for the Gospel... Continue Reading

For many young ministers, this question comes down to a question of courage. If you’re not able to turn down family members and friends who expect you to act as a wedding chaplain for them, then how are you going to turn down unbelievers who want to baptized? Gospel Coalition Editor’s Note: Even though they... Continue Reading

But not everything is beautiful! Can God show his glory in an ugly entangled dead hanging branch? Can God show his beauty in fallen limbs covered with green fungus? Running is a passion of mine and I run with God in mind. I use my running time for prayer and enjoying God’s glory that surrounds... Continue Reading