Are you and your church committed to the basics: to prayer, proclamation, and being a practicing Christian community? If we will make that our aim and keep doing it year after year, who knows how big the flame will be when God decides to light a match and lay it at the kindling of our... Continue Reading

Entering Jesus’ kingdom and walking daily with Jesus requires me to have a humble, trusting, loving, believing faith in Christ. Jesus calls me to have a simple, genuine faith in his character and his promises. When I tell my children that something is true, they believe me. They know that I love them, and therefore... Continue Reading

What I thought was a consensus when I graduated from seminary, what guided my pastoral practice, and what I thought the PCA intended to affirm as it came into existence seems not view of conservative Presbyterians whom I respect and whose views I am obligated to consider. I have seen the definition of sexual sin... Continue Reading

The bigger problem with this vote isn’t so much the perceived threat of openly-gay boys participating equally in Scouting, but the apparent lack of context regarding the appropriateness of sexuality of any kind receiving this much attention in Scouting.  How involved are the Scouts in their young membership’s sexual development and society’s moral reality of... Continue Reading

Generally speaking, Christians in the early church defended a biblical view of creation against pagan views – and this is something Christians are still doing and need to keep doing today.  Even though people suppress the truth and hate it, our goal should be to stand on biblical, creational truth with our forefathers.   The... Continue Reading

Please don’t misunderstand me. From the pastor to the pews, we all need God’s grace and mercy. In that light, no one is superior or inferior to another. As the old saying goes, “We all stand equal at the foot of the cross,” but that does not mean that there aren’t distinctions and that we... Continue Reading

When I inquired about the reasons for this “Black flight,” the residents pointed to the rumor that underclass people were moving in … This observation shook me to my foundation; I never dreamed that “Black flight” was possible.  It was then that I realized that I had imbibed the intoxicant of ontological Blackness – believing that we were immune... Continue Reading

Kuyper saw two “lords” at work in the spirit of the age around him, contesting the lordship of Jesus Christ. The first lord, Bratt explains, was Mammon, which he defines as “a thorough absorption in getting and spending within the horizon of the material world.” … The second lord was more intriguing to me: Art.... Continue Reading

Our view of God cannot be formed through the lens of a fallen world with eyesight distorted by cataracts of pride.  We must understand Him as He wants us to understand Him.  We want to embrace God for who He is and ourselves for who we are.  That’s called operating in the fear of the... Continue Reading

How could the right sort of liberalism be distinguished from the wrong sort? Ad fontes! Go to the origins. I made a fresh attempt to understand the historical source of the problem. I found that the Reformation gradually gave rise to two forms of liberal Christianity. One of these was deeply involved in the first... Continue Reading