The problem isn’t that we long for something better. It’s that we long for too small of things. It’s 5 o’clock and you’re stuck in traffic with hungry kids in the backseat, and no dinner waiting for you once you get home. Hey girl. It’s cool that you made a three-course meal for the mom... Continue Reading

Since the early eighteenth century, all American evangelicals have been shaped by a desire to have an intense, personal religious experience… By contrast, the theology, piety, and practice of confessional Reformed congregations has been shaped not so much by religious experience but rather by a certain kind of confession of faith, worship, and approach to... Continue Reading

Thousands, if not millions, of church members sitting in America’s pews aren’t really born-again Christians, a Washington, D.C., pastor said April 10 to a pastors’ conference in Louisville, Ky. Mark Dever, senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in the nation’s capital, warned on the opening day of the 2012 Together for the Gospel Conference... Continue Reading

It is not true that we can just get mad in the next four years and then get a super-duper Republican to take out the Democrat candidate. We are headed to the point of no return under Obama. Romney is not the savior, but he is so vastly superior to the current President, that I... Continue Reading

Lie #1: The Gospel Goes Forth by Political Power Lie #2: The Gospel of the Sinner’s Prayer Lie #3: Prosperity and Power Prove the Gospel It’s the Easter season, the fifty days in which Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. The Acts of the Apostles, the “history book” of the New Testament, is remarkably... Continue Reading

There are most definitely a number of church affiliations or denominations whose tent became so big that they eventually collapsed under the weight of their diversity. Could it happen to the PCA as well? Yes it could. In this third installment (Part I and Part II) of a look at the PCA before the 40th... Continue Reading

Thomas Jefferson is still dead. I thank God for him, but standing at his grave reminds me how limited even his legacy can be, in the grand scheme of trillions of years of cosmic time. Last week I stood at the grave of Thomas Jefferson, and wondered. I was in Charlottesville to speak at the... Continue Reading

As people, (and especially young adolescent males), do more gaming, and less reading, we are actually becoming more stupid. This is not my assessment, but comes from the “all the news that’s fit to print” New York Times! Monday’s New York Times Magazine (April 8, 2012) cover story is entitled—“The Hyperaddictive, Time-Sucking, Relationship-Busting, Mind-Crushing Power... Continue Reading

The Islamic world looks at the “Christian” west as self-indulgent, decadent and ripe for the picking. They are right, and their answer is Sharia law – holiness enforced from without. LETTER TO THE EDITOR(In response to Terry Jones anti Sharia protest rally in Dearborn) I am a Michigan native, though I have not lived there... Continue Reading

Traditional churches must wake up and reinvent themselves if they are to remain — or become — relevant, some Christian leaders say. “We have to think the way missionaries think,” said Larry Hovis, executive coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina. Thinking like missionaries is necessary to relevantly preach the gospel in an... Continue Reading