That the current executive branch is unwilling to accommodate the Catholic Church on religious conscience is truly troubling. More troubling indeed is a real trampling of the “First Freedom,” religious liberty. It’s all largely lost and subservient to contemporary partisanship. Concerning the HHS mandate, somehow getting lost in the shuffle is the primacy of religious... Continue Reading

I like people, but conversation, it can wear me out. I have several close friends but I am not terribly motivated to make conversation with people I don’t know well. I have a good sense of humor, but mostly because I sit around by myself a lot thinking of funny things to say When my... Continue Reading

The end goal is the “blessed self-forgetfulness” that Tim Keller describes – a forgetfulness that frees us from fussing over ourselves so that we can worship and serve God. “Do I look pregnant, or do I look fat?” I hate to say it, but this question has become an almost daily occurrence in my household.... Continue Reading

Yet there is also an imaging relation or analogical relation between God and Adam that is the product of God’s creative will. So when we see analogies between human beings and chimpanzees, the presence of analogies does not tell us what generated them News media report confident claims about human origins. Science, it is said,... Continue Reading

Even worse, this intentional and vicious misinformation campaign is working. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds that 63% of Americans support requiring insurers to cover contraception, while 33% oppose. How sad is it the American public is so easily duped. Last week Thursday, the Senate rejected by a 51-48 vote a bill that would have... Continue Reading

Pentecostals are a particular subgroup of evangelicals, who believe in the same basic doctrines but emphasize “the work of the Holy Spirit,” including healing, speaking in tongues,and prophesy. Evangelicals have been in the news a lot lately — from Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, who plays and prays football with scriptures stenciled to his face,... Continue Reading

When as a pastor you are living every day in the confession and forgiveness pattern of the gospel, you are forsaking your way for a better way. Your relationships are no longer a daily competition for who has power and who is going to get his way One thing you can know for sure, pastor,... Continue Reading

Habakkuk quoted snippets of psalms and proverbs as he spoke with God: “Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?”(Hab. 1:13). The large window at Baltimore-Washington International Airport framed... Continue Reading

Dr. John Gerstner used to instruct his students that, when engaged in any form of debate, one has the duty so to understand and articulate his opponent’s position that when one repeats that position back to his opponent, his opponent can recognize that position as his own. It becomes evident to this reader that Ken... Continue Reading

Youth pastors, pray with all your might for true conversion; that is God’s work. Equip the saints for the work of the ministry; that is your work. Parents, preach the gospel and live the gospel for your children; our work depends on you What is it that sets apart the kids who stay in the... Continue Reading