Given our contemporary ideas about independence, I doubt any of us would enjoy Lady Catherine’s micromanagement of our lives. Hence I find it rather interesting that there is no end to the books, talks, and blog posts in which Christians feel quite free to give authoritative advice to fellow believers on matters of Christian liberty.... Continue Reading

Jesus compared sharing the gospel to sowing seeds. A seed seems insignificant. A seed seems to have little value. When we mention Jesus to someone or ask someone if we can pray for them, it feels insignificant. When we read the Bible for 5 minutes to our distracted children, we wonder, did anything get through?... Continue Reading

It is fatal to over-react to one error by lapsing into the other error. We can see this happen in history (Richard Baxter’s neonomianism as an over-reaction to the antinomianism of his day comes to mind). The way to react to the one error is to come back to the straight and narrow central path... Continue Reading

“True repentance acknowledges the reality of the guilt and does not try to justify it. Anyone who approaches God with true humility, contrition, and an earnest resolution not to commit the sin again will surely receive the forgiveness of God.”   Since the Bible mentions an unforgivable sin, there has been much speculation concerning its specific... Continue Reading

“Friends, consider this glorious news. We have a priest who put on true humanity. We have a priest who encountered the best Lucifer could throw at him. We have a priest who could not be swayed. And we have a priest who became the acceptable representative and the acceptable sacrifice for all Lucifer’s followers who desire... Continue Reading

“If what we find in Leviticus has passed away, then it is determined that there must be no more relevance for the believer today. While Leviticus may appear to be irrelevant upon a surface reading, a deeper look not only into the book itself, but also into the canon of Scripture will reveal the importance... Continue Reading

“As a promissory seal of our adoption, declaring grace in the continuous present and in the future, baptism never ceases to call us to the response of faith in the here and now. The force of the grace of adoption–founded upon a unilateral initiative of love–continues throughout the adoptive child’s life, but also summons them... Continue Reading

“Fundamentalists tend to have a deep suspicion of the world—a world that is full of sin and adamantly opposed to God and his purposes. In my experience, Fundamentalists are quick to look to the world and to hold the world responsible for sin and the temptation to sin; hence, they battle hard against worldliness and look... Continue Reading

Feed your mind on the Scriptures in general. There is an inseparable relationship between the special revelation God has made in Scripture and the fear of God. And this relationship is such that, for all intents and purposes, the fear of God can be used as a synonym for the Word of God. The overall... Continue Reading

Imagine, says Peppard, if they let slip “Columbus’s voyage on the Mayflower” or “Malcolm X’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.” Such an error would say that the facts of basic American history are unknown. To let Jesus’ supposed resurrection into heaven or his imaginary address to the Corinthians skate by betrays a sad reality: the... Continue Reading