A pastor can’t say everything that needs to be said in a single message, let alone a social media post....
We have heard so much about maintaining physical health during these times. Fair enough--I'll wash my hands and maintain social distancing....
I don’t feel the need to preach an entire message about this, but I do feel a responsibility to say a few words about the general Christian response to the public health crisis we are facing....
A while back I posted about my intentions to preach a series of messages on transgenderism. Quite a few people expressed interest in it, so here's an update....
Since I first started teaching on the Bible and homosexuality several years ago, I have chafed at the campaign of deliberate misinformation that props up the entire social narrative....
When an aspiring, “married” and openly-homosexual presidential candidate (Pete Buttigieg) tries to isolate the sitting vice-president by saying, “It's time for us to move on toward a more inclusive and more humane vision of faith than what this vice president represents,” he has not-so-subtly declared war on biblical Christians everywhere....
I have many friends who are pastors or otherwise in spiritual leadership. This is primarily for them, although the rest of you are welcome to listen in......
The word “therefore” in the Bible often indicates movement from the proclamation of doctrinal truth to the believer’s responsibility to live in light of that truth. The idea is: based on the truth just stated, here is how the Christian must respond......
Keep ReadingThe church is one place where rich and poor ought to be able to commune together and love each other. We see that especially in communion......
Keep ReadingIf you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go, and not in the way that they would go on their own......
Keep ReadingOf all relationships of life, none ought to be regarded with such reverence, and none taken in hand so cautiously, as the relationship of husband and wife. In no relationship is so much earthly happiness to be found, if it be entered upon discreetly, advisedly, and in the fear of God......
Keep ReadingOur entertainment-saturated society helps feed all sorts of illusions about reality. The fantasy of the perfect romantic and sexual relationship, the perfect lifestyle, and the perfect body all prove unattainable because the reality never lives up to the expectation......
Keep ReadingOur object is to turn the world upside down; or, in other words, that where sin abounded grace may much more abound. We are aiming at a miracle: it is well to settle that at the commencement......
Keep ReadingWould you like a foundation not only for the new year, but for the rest of your life? Come to the doctrine of divine providence......
Keep ReadingI would have you notice when God gave his Son, for there is love in the time. In his eternal purpose he did this from before the foundation of the world. The fact is that Jesus was always the gift of God. The promise of Jesus was made in the garden of Eden almost as soon as Adam fell. On the spot where our ruin was accomplished, a Deliverer was bestowed whose heel should...
Keep ReadingThe specific question which I shall seek to answer is whether the doctrine of the miraculous birth of Jesus from a virgin mother, taught in the opening chapters of the gospels of Matthew and Luke, forms an indispensable element in Christianity so that without it Christianity would be incompletely stated and left defective... ...
Keep ReadingAssurance and Eternal Life This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent (John 17:3) The life of God in the soul is not temporary but eternal. Some think that the life of God in the believer’s soul may die out; but how, then, could it be eternal? If it die it is not eternal life. If it be eternal life it cann...
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