So don’t stop praying for your wandering child. Don’t stop asking God to help your feeble church. Don’t stop asking God to give you love for that difficult person. Don’t stop praying for your struggling marriage. Don’t stop giving to the church and the poor even though you can barely spare any to give. Keep sowing,... Continue Reading

The enmity is one of unimaginable meanness and cruelty, which we ignore at our peril. The story of redemption is not in one sense a cliff-hanger to the very end, a tale the outcome of which is uncertain until the last page is turned. The precise nature of the serpent’s destiny as the lake of... Continue Reading

The valley of the shadow of death speaks not to fear but to anticipation. That shadow might be darkest at death’s door but that’s only because we are closer to the Light on the other side, where the darkness of the fall will be no more. The believer has had the light of life dispel... Continue Reading

Not long ago a well-known member of the “reformedish” world explained to me that his gifts were too significant to be squandered accepting invitations to speak at anything other than large churches and prominent conferences. My heart sank. This was a man I admired; whose work had been an encouragement to me. Don’t misunderstand. I... Continue Reading

Clearly, it is Jesus who fulfilled the prophecy of Ezekiel and rescued His flock. He has fed His people with truth and He will come again to judge those who have rejected His Lordship and His Priesthood. Meanwhile, those He has saved by His death and healed by His wounds are called to die to... Continue Reading

Only this unique Trinitarian Creator God, source of personhood, of intelligent complexity, and of love, can make sense of the world around us and thus reveal secularism, in its practical atheism, to be deadly nonsense; multicultural spirituality to be finally occultic; Islam to be bathed in inevitable human cruelty. Only the God of Twoism makes... Continue Reading

Some teachers are considered, by their followers and perhaps even by themselves, to be above such things. Or worse, why even bother? Why not just stop with the questions already? Just believe everything my favorite guru (Christian or otherwise) says. Isn’t the Holy Spirit going to lead me into all truth so all I need... Continue Reading

Immanuel did not come to remain as a baby. He came to fulfill a purpose. He came to earth so that we could be restored back into right relationship with our Maker. So Immanuel left that feeding trough, grew into a man, faced the trials and temptations of this life without sin, and then died... Continue Reading

As parents we want immediate results. Why? Because in this fast-paced world, we get everything else, so it seems, immediately and without much delay. But the souls of our children are like well-watered gardens that grow a healthy crop over time. The hearts of our children must be like a field that produces a vast... Continue Reading

“Machen’s concern for history, however, is broader than just the biblical story and its importance for doctrine.  Because he held to a high view of the church as an institution, and of her offices, officers and confessions, history was inevitably of vital importance to the particularities of Christian belief and practice in the present.”  ... Continue Reading