A faith that denies the divinity of Jesus, the efficacious nature of His death, the reality of His bodily resurrection, the veracity of His witness in the Scriptures, the power of His Spirit, is a faith that is heretical, out of alignment with the faith once delivered to the saints. When God created, He spoke.... Continue Reading

Do you ever feel like you could do more for God if only you didn’t have to work in that pesky job of yours? Do you get frustrated about how much time you spend doing secular work? Sometimes I long to retreat from my household chores and responsibilities to others to spend more time in... Continue Reading

Self-control is a fruit of the Holy Spirit in Galatians 5:23. When the Holy Spirit is actively present in my life, I have more control of myself, not less. A lifestyle that is given to excess in which my bodily desires are controlling me, that is not a Christian body. In the New Testament, the... Continue Reading

I’d encourage others to simply not engage the haters. There are blogs I simply do not read because it doesn’t benefit me spiritually. Some people move me to examine myself, look to Jesus, and grow in grace. Others just provoke me to anger. There’s a part of me that’s hesitant to keep banging the drum... Continue Reading

Yet a powerful negative judgment of the PCUSA ran just below the surface of the meeting. Nearly 2,000 people came to Minneapolis out of a sense of crisis—that something of grave consequence had happened that required an urgent response Opening the Fellowship of Presbyterians gathering on August 25 in Minneapolis, the Rev. Dave Peterson of... Continue Reading

If either Perry or Bachmann is the Republican nominee, the Obama campaign will likely pour part of its reported billion-dollar war chest into painting them as wild-eyed theocrats. Fifty-seven years ago the postwar “Red Scare” reached its height in the McCarthy Senate hearings, prototype of all witch hunts and icon of ideology run amuck. To... Continue Reading

Biblical preaching is God’s redemptive, life-saving, grace-giving, mystical, Spirit-endowed work, because it is the official, authoritative proclamation of King Jesus to his people and to the world. A. One of the biblical marks of a true church is biblical preaching. Why? 1. The church of Jesus Christ is the place where true teaching takes place... Continue Reading

“Modest dress is required, in keeping with the dignity of the place as well as the solemnity of the occasion. Whatever you strip off the wedding dress afterward to turn it into a party dress is not at issue; one does not show up for a religious ceremony in a plunging neckline or strapless party... Continue Reading

This week on his television show Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said a man would be morally justified to divorce his wife with Alzheimer’s disease in order to marry another woman. The dementia-riddled wife is, Robertson said, “not there” anymore. This is more than an embarrassment. This is more than cruelty. This is a repudiation of... Continue Reading

There is every reason within the text to believe that Matthew intends to report historical facts. Matthew 27:51-54 is in the very heart of Matthew’s report of the resurrection of Christ as historical fact. Dehistoricizing this text is calamitous and inconsistent with the affirmation of biblical inerrancy. The affirmation of biblical inerrancy is nothing more,... Continue Reading