The one thing gospel encouragement isn’t is average, mediocre, ignorable. The ministry of encouragement is surprising, captivating, energizing. It does require effort and intentionality, but it also leaves us feeling exhilarated and uplifted. Is that how we walk out of our churches on a typical Sunday: exhilarated and uplifted? When the ministry of encouragement is allowed... Continue Reading

The reason why God doesn’t make himself more obviously known than he has already is because people believing on the grounds he has given us already brings him more glory than if it was more obvious. Nonetheless, the Bible is clear that all those who would ever believe in Christ will believe in him (cf. John... Continue Reading

If we alter our doctrine of sin so as to not turn off those who identify as “sexual minorities,” we may be exhibiting symptoms of Schleiermacher. If we alter our worship to make it more entertaining to millennials, we may be haunted by the ghost of Schleiermacher. Or, if we seek to placate Arminian or... Continue Reading

We should remember that the early English settlers in the New World left England accompanied by fears that they would pursue their “errand into the wilderness” and become barbarians in the process. Loved ones at home wondered how a people could cross an ocean and live in the wild without losing the literacy, the learning,... Continue Reading

But I would just like to point out that the church has always had a discerning relationship with scientific authority. We ought not accept something simply because it is coming from a scientific authority—especially if this scientific finding is somehow in conflict with other important principles or truths that we might hold.   The church... Continue Reading

The ordinary preaching of the word of God, and particularly the good news of salvation, eternal life and an inheritance in Christ alone where moth and rust don’t destroy is what the Reformation church was all about. Therefore, that is what was elevated in Calvinistic churches.   [This editorial article reflects the opinion of its... Continue Reading

While I do not know how to precisely weigh the various factors, such as cultural differences and legacies of oppression, selective immigration and institutional racism, in answering the question of why certain subgroups experience higher levels of success than others, it is beyond dispute that culture matters. Wilfred Reilly asserts “an especially important cultural variable…is... Continue Reading

We all have much to learn in this area. Nor is it to disparage Christians who struggle with homosexual sin. While sin no longer reigns in the hearts of true believers, the remnants of sin still remain in true believers. Rather, it’s to make the point that a corrosive progressivism has clearly infiltrated the PCA.... Continue Reading

We must reject identity hermeneutics, its veneration of personal identity, and its naive certainty in the objectivity of the marginalized. Like the identity politicians of our day, identity hermeneuticians are pitting classes within the church against each other, pandering to the most vocal communities, and profiting in manifold ways as a result. Instead, we must... Continue Reading

This divine perfection and Trinitarian unity means something profound. The God who eternally lacks no perfection and who in himself is goodness and joy and peace and love, as Father who loves the Son in the Spirit, this God creates us anyway. Therefore, at the heart of this world, underneath its very existence, is not chaos, not violence,... Continue Reading