End the affair definitively. The longer you vacillate, the more pain and turmoil you will create for everyone. There is nothing pleasant about this step. Rarely does it provide the emotional affirmation that often comes with making a right choice. But it is essential to restoring any emotional or relational sanity to your life. “Closure”... Continue Reading

Does your church know that you are glad to be their pastor? Can they sense you like what you do? Are they aware (which probably comes through in being blissfully unaware of anything else) that you are comfortable being who you are? If you find old-fashioned enjoyment in preaching, you could still be a bad... Continue Reading

However, there tends to be a propensity for those in the church to form friendships exclusively on the basis of having similar interests with particular members of the church. When friendships in the church are formed predominantly on the basis of mutually benefiting one another socially–to the exclusion of forming spiritual friendships with others in... Continue Reading

When we are in the pit of sorrow, when we are frozen by fear, when we are weakened by the cares of this life, we need to turn to God’s word. It is our strength. It’s how God communicates with us. Through the Spirit at work in us, he uses his word to change us, correct... Continue Reading

We women can be notorious for comparing ourselves to other women. We either fall short, which brings on discontent, or we feel a smug sense of pride for feeling superior. Either situation puts us at risk for sin. Wrong desires are a direct line to sin (James 1:13-15). Instead, we should love the season we’re... Continue Reading

This lack of diversity is particularly evident in the field of biblical studies at major American universities. Go on a search for genuinely evangelical professors who hold a teaching post in biblical studies at a major public university and see what you find. They are an endangered species. And the intellectual discrimination doesn’t just happen... Continue Reading

Unless this sin is mortified–that is to say, unless it is put to death (see Gal. 5:24; Col. 3:5)–it will only intensify. Pornography makes greater and greater demands until finally it becomes a life-dominating sin. As one of the Puritans said, sexual pictures secretly convey poison to the soul. Now they are only a click... Continue Reading

In reading through various essays from the Omnibus Curriculum, I found examples of Doug Wilson’s influence throughout. I decided to organize the material here using the list of topics from my post, A Question for Wilson Fans. I’ve made some adjustments, but the basic format was useful in categorizing.   As I noted in the last... Continue Reading

My daughter made an interesting statement that we may want to “fix” people in the body of Christ because then we don’t have to care for them. And I think she may be right. I just searched at christianbook.com and found more than 2000 books in the category for “Christian Living” for women. These books... Continue Reading

As for me, I find it difficult to read books by authors who have disgraced and disqualified themselves. Depending on the kind of immorality he displayed, I may even get rid of his books. We of all generations are so blessed by good books that I see little reason to even consider ones written by... Continue Reading