“The next wave of societal controversy is likely to involve one’s approach to children. Studies show that a significant number of people who experience varying degrees of gender dysphoria as children choose to identify with their biological sex after puberty.”   In case you’re just tuning in, Bruce Springsteen, Target, and bathrooms are at the... Continue Reading

Here’s what I must remember: the sadness will lift. It always has. Day by day we are being renewed inwardly, so we do not lose heart (2 Cor 4:16). I know people with deep valleys that seem insurmountable, that last months or years, that require medication and constant care. But this is the truth: in... Continue Reading

Our actual influence will be in those quiet moments of praying for our children as we tuck them into bed. It’ll be those subtle gospel conversations where you labor to help your mechanic get one step closer to maturity in Christ. It’ll be walking through the message of Job with the grieving widow. Don’t get... Continue Reading

It is not alway easy to discern whether parents in the church have fallen into idolatrous parenting or not. It is far too easy to counterfeit godly parenting with idolatrous parenting. One of the ways to help determine whether or not you have fallen into such family idolatry is to ask yourself how much time do you... Continue Reading

Does it result in an unbalanced presentation of the truth? True Christianity walks the tight rope between complementary biblical truths—truth and grace, Christ as God and man, salvation by faith alone and the necessity of the obedience of the Christian. It was usually the heretics who were guilty of resolving biblical tensions in ways that... Continue Reading

John 3:16 is the verse that the late Professor John Murray of Westminster Theological Seminary used to begin his classic treatment of the atonement Redemption Accomplished and Applied. “No treatment of the atonement can be properly oriented that does not trace its source to the free and sovereign love of God. It is with this... Continue Reading

“At the heart of the recent departures has been the series of actions by the General Assembly which has moved the Kirk towards legitimizing homosexuality.  There are various pieces to this.  Most notoriously, the transfer and installation of an openly gay minister in a congregation in the Aberdeen Presbytery in 2009 caused a storm of... Continue Reading

This is what the fight is over. In order to have a meaningful existence, you must have the complete freedom to form yourself according to your will and your will alone. So a threat to, say, the freedom of choosing your gender is a threat to the society that has embraced naturalism and needs to... Continue Reading

“One should remember that only the people living in the Land that was promised to Abraham are placed under the threat of death (called the “ban”) by the Lord, and even then the conquest is only appropriate when their sin has reached its full (Gen 15:16). As in the new covenant, if the enemies of God repent, then the... Continue Reading

“We believe in the 39 books of the Old Testament, because the Lord Jesus Christ affirmed the Old Testament. And we believe in the 27 books of the New Testament, because the Lord Jesus Christ authorized His apostles to write the New Testament.”   Have you ever looked at your Bible and wondered, “How do we... Continue Reading