But you don’t have to be married to determine to let your relationships put Jesus on display. Look for ways to honor and glorify God in all of your relationships, including your dating relationships. Speak with kindness. Forgive freely. Run away from sexual sin. These are ways you can showcase Christ without treating your boyfriend... Continue Reading

So what do you do if your frustration level is rising because you do not see your service attendance, podcast numbers, or Twitter followers escalating as much as you’d like? How do you respond if you are tyrannized by seeing a cult of celebrity surround a different minister rather than yourself? Three things:   What... Continue Reading

Sunday sports do not pose a unique challenge; the issue does not go away as our children enter into adulthood. Throughout life, they will confront the temptation to allow others to dictate their use of Sundays. Inevitably, their employers will schedule occasional meetings for Sunday, their relatives will plan a Sunday reunion, and Sunday will,... Continue Reading

We should never imagine that our efforts are transforming the cosmos or bringing the kingdom to earth; we should expect to witness to God’s love for creation, and to his promise to transform it, by treating it with care, respect, and justice. We shouldn’t fall under the spell of utopian schemes to return nature to... Continue Reading

So many difficult burdens can capture your mind in local church ministry. There are so many things you could worry about. There are so many messy relationships, unfinished conversations, unfinished agendas, and unknown conclusions. In intensely practical ways, you are always living between the already and the not yet. So it is vital in ministry... Continue Reading

Instead of ruling on the Record of the Case and the Constitution, they ruled merely with regard to the complaint before them. Thus now, according to the SJC, Leithart very well may be teaching heresy against the confession. The PNWP may have erred in exonerating him. However, the complainant didn’t prove that. The SJC, like... Continue Reading

Here is a powerful pagan/interfaith movement that believes that the religious experience at the heart of all the religions and philosophies, both East and West, is the same. Sharing this spiritual experience will thus bring global harmony. Christian experience derives from hearing the good news of God’s act for us, embodied not in Oneist experience,... Continue Reading

I can’t help but chuckle at the irony! I went in to “upgrade” my phone so that I’d have a larger screen, better speakers, and because it came with a no-ad version of Pandora for a year (call quality and a better antenna were somewhere on the wish list, too!). Leave it the sovereign Lord... Continue Reading

We should avoid the mistake of construing this discussion as a debate about one plausible interpretation of Scripture against another. There is no alternative to submitting to the Scripture’s own interpretation of itself. Bringing a humanly-engineered interpretive grid to the Scriptures is fatal, as it introduces a higher authority over the Scriptures themselves. It is,... Continue Reading

The Puritan authors consistently decry the problems of the church in their own day. The Reformation writers likewise display the unfortunate difficulties of their time—problems caused by radicals, disagreements among reformers, and lawlessness throughout the land. With the early church fathers, the situation is no different. Doctrinal disputes, theological laziness, rampant antinomianism or legalism among... Continue Reading