I believe in the administration of justice through those ordained to that task in our various levels of government.  I believe they deserve our respect, our support, our encouragement, our prayers, and even our protection so that they might carry out their duties with integrity, diligence, and under law.   While the news seems to... Continue Reading

How can the church assert the truth of the gospel—an exclusive truth which makes demands in the present because of promises which will be fulfilled only in the future—in a world predicated on consumer options, entertainment, and instant gratification? Just a brief glance at the advertising for the most numerically successful and conservative evangelical conferences... Continue Reading

Additionally, I’m uncomfortable with the relatively young concept of “sexual orientation.” I don’t believe the content or implications of the Scriptures support the idea that each person has a fixed, immutable set of sexual desires that they are born with. The Bible speaks about homosexual and heterosexual behavior and the desires that drive those activities,... Continue Reading

We Must Remember that We Can’t Change the Hearts of our Children. No amount of sheltering our children from the evil of the world without will keep them from acting on the evil of their hearts within. We can neither regenerate our child’s heart nor bring him or her to a place of spiritual maturity.... Continue Reading

All Christians are to live as sojourners and exiles, blessing the world around us by refusing to conform to its patterns of thought and behavior. As Augustine said, sometimes we must stand against the world for the good of the world. In every age, the world implements strategies of isolation, indoctrination, assimilation, and confusion, and... Continue Reading

“Young men, significantly more so than young women, are stuck in life. Research released in May from the Pew Center documented a historic demographic shift: American men aged 18-30 are now statistically more likely to be living with their parents than with a romantic partner.”   Where have America’s young men gone? According to Erik... Continue Reading

This is what we should do. We should repent of our sins and joyfully receive the forgiveness God freely gives. And yet we keep silent. We repent of some sins to some people, but others we don’t tell anyone about. In examining my own heart, I’ve come up with lies that I often believe which... Continue Reading

I want to encourage us in our twenty-first-century context, as different as it might be from Bunyan’s, to observe what we share in common with him. First, notice how quickly religious liberties can disappear in spite of promises to the contrary. Bunyan lost longstanding freedom quite suddenly even though Charles II promised liberty. Recently in... Continue Reading

Specifically, when it comes to the moral law (how to define both righteousness and sin according to Scripture), there needs to be clear biblical and confessional ground for making specific declarations about ethics and morality. Yet, many seek to make moral and ethical arguments (attempting to root them in Scripture) for voting for a particular... Continue Reading

In these hard times, we must not abandon the work of beauty. We must take up our cross and discipline ourselves to celebrate it—the quiet moments, the simple pleasures, the secret joys–even as the world falls to pieces around us.  But we must do more than this. In these hard times, we must take up... Continue Reading