By understanding what Puritanism did right, Americans can see more clearly what they lack. Puritanism set up a creative tension between personal autonomy and communal obligation, impassioned conscience and sober humility, and vigorous enterprise and collective obligation, each side of these apparent antimonies spurring the other.   Americans can learn a lot about themselves and... Continue Reading

Some are now comparing the Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage with the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on abortion. There is an important lesson for us to learn from the pro-life movement. Today, there are more pro-life millennials than others from previous generations who champion pro-life. When pro-life people, made up of more than just evangelical Christians, began fighting... Continue Reading

The best news in the world is that God has done for you what you could never do on your own. The cross of Christ shows us that there is a real God who knows the real you and really loves you with a reckless love we call grace. You are powerless. But he is... Continue Reading

Let us see good worship as a mutual love-fest. And let us see the Regulative Principle of Worship, not as something harsh and restrictive, but as something positive and enjoyable. God wants to enjoy us. God wants us to enjoy him. This mutual pleasuring of one another is what we are created to do; it is why... Continue Reading

Sexuality/gender is where loyalty to Christ is being tested in our culture. More and more, it has become the line dividing the sheep from the goats. We cannot overemphasize the fact that the stakes really are that high. It is one thing when a young Christian has not been taught well on these issues and... Continue Reading

“I’m a black woman, so when I think of a civil right and the fight for freedom, it kind of strikes a chord for me that your sexual preference is not equal to the color of my skin, an immutable characteristic,” Addison said in an interview Saturday, a day after the Supreme Court’s ruling.”  ... Continue Reading

After the Hobby Lobby ruling last year, the Obama administration devised a new solution to address religious objections to contraception among religious charities and nonprofits. Instead of filling out a form that notifies the insurance company of any religious objections, organizations in writing would notify the government of their objections. The government will then notify... Continue Reading

“My primary authority,” wrote Packer, “is a Bible writer named Paul. For many decades now, I have asked myself at every turn of my theological road: Would Paul be with me in this? What would he say if he were in my shoes? I have never dared to offer a view on anything that I... Continue Reading

“Milne’s trial on April 20th, 1558, was conducted in the St. Andrews cathedral. According to contemporary accounts, his legs were too weak to carry him unaided up the stairs into the pulpit to answer the charges brought against him. His voice, however, rang out loud and clear throughout the sanctuary.”   By spring of 1558... Continue Reading

Let us not be so easily satisfied with a simple insignia of a simplistic Calvinism; rather, let us drape ourselves with Calvin’s Calvinism, a Christ-centered, Spirit-empowered, God-glorifying, gospel-driven Calvinism that shines so brilliantly that the deceitful darkness of sin would be conquered in our hearts so that, in turn, we might shine as the light... Continue Reading