My Reconstructed Faith
I realized I had been taken captive by a movement that replaced revelation with philosophy, the promises of God for the lies of humans, and the Word of God for human traditions.
When God began to reconstruct my faith, I realized how lonely I was and how much I needed help. I needed a community of believers to walk alongside me. I needed to sit under a faithful minister of the gospel and hear the word of God preached. Among the ever-growing list of controversies and... Continue Reading
Seeking Sanity
What was once thought untenable is now embraced, what was once tolerated is now imposed.
The world of Ecclesiastes exists in the same plane as does the world of our day, as has the world ever since our first parents’ exile from the Garden of Eden. The names may have changed but the people are the same. It seems like the world has lost its mind. Realities as basic... Continue Reading
The Curse Of God
Curses do not come from the hand of a malevolent tyrant but a merciful God.
Like the generation whose dead bodies lined the wilderness floor, the generation who killed God’s Son would be shut out of God’s New Covenant kingdom and would pay mightily for their crimes. That is the context we must understand if we are going to understand Matthew 24, which is one of the most misunderstood chapters in... Continue Reading
On Dobbs and the Growing Rift in America: Why Only a Spiritual Answer Explains the Division
The divide is seen in the way people respond to the image of God—to Christ and those created to share his likeness.
From the beginning, there has been a long divide between people of faith and people of the flesh, those like Seth who called upon God (Gen. 4:26), and those like Lamech who collected wives, deviated from God’s law, and threatened violence (Gen. 4:23–24). June 24 is a date that all Christians should now mark... Continue Reading
Denial of Sex Distinctions is a Symptom of Evolution
The first man and woman were in many ways the same. They also were given sex distinctions so that they could fit together and function as one amazing whole.
A source of the modern sexual identity crisis explosion is the touting of the theory of evolution, which undermines God’s creative plan and lets “survival of the fittest” function as we see fit. If we evolved into men and women, we can continue changing. God reveals Himself not as “Mother,” but “Father,” and so... Continue Reading
On Properly Distinguishing Law and Gospel
The law convicts of sin and shows the insufficiency of all human efforts to earn eternal life, whereas the gospel shows God’s remedy for human depravity and guilt.
Law and gospel go together in Paul’s thought, and having been shown the truth of the gospel and having trusted God in light of it, we are then to show the sincerity of our faith and to realize the law’s temporal purpose and the rest of God’s predestined will for us (Eph. 2:10) by obeying... Continue Reading
The Purity and Peace of the Church
The absence of peace in PCA courts is the product of a lack of purity; we don’t agree on core matters of what it is to be a Reformed Church.
The problem of lack of peace in the PCA is because we disagree regarding matters so essential as the three core marks of the Church (WCF 25:4, Worship, Sacraments, Gospel). If we disagree on these essentials, we will not agree on a united vision on the mission of the Church. These are not mere semantic... Continue Reading
4 Thoughts on Spiritual Fatherhood
The spiritual father is honest about his own sin and struggles, transparent about his own mistakes and misunderstandings, and doesn’t claim to have all the answers.
Spiritual fathers speaking into the lives of young men realize that accountability comes with access, that authority comes with availability, that ambition must come with authenticity — and that lasting, formative influence comes from closeness. You cannot be a spiritual father simply by monitoring someone’s intellectual progress. You have to get up in someone’s business.... Continue Reading
Questions for PCA Officers on…Offices
Addressing the unordained diaconate.
Do not the vows taken by elders regarding the constitution of the PCA and submission to brethren require that we (all of us) follow and abide by the polity of our church (in letter and spirit) until such time as that polity is changed through orderly constitutional process rather than by the drip-drip normalization-by-tolerated-violation approach... Continue Reading
3 Precious Promises of the New Covenant
The covenant promises that we now enjoy in fulfillment are the same promises that Abraham anticipated.
These three major promises of the new covenant are intended to drive the Christian to a life of faith a trust in the once-for-all death of Christ, to live confidently in this present evil age in the face of great opposition and struggle, and to not give up. The author of Hebrews desires for... Continue Reading
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