What Has Been Lost – And Can Be Regained
What a Glorious Future Awaits Us
“As we think about glorification, it must be in this way; that man is not only delivered from all the effects of the Fall, and the sin and the transgression of Adam, but granted a far superior blessing, and given something of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.” Most folks would have... Continue Reading
Repent or Perish
We must preach and believe the gospel every day of our lives.
As Jesus warned the Jews of His day, He warns us with the same option, repent or perish. Therefore, the divinely appointed leaders of the church must discern spiritually what is at stake and seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near, let them return to the LORD,... Continue Reading
Galatians Is the Antidote to Legalism and Antinomianism
I haven’t grown past my need to walk on a path paved with the grace-saturated words of this letter. I suspect I’m not alone, so here are six reasons I’ll never be able to leave Galatians behind.
Paul’s strong admonition in Galatians 1 helped spur Luther and other Reformers to recover the true gospel in the Reformation. The same gospel must be asserted and reasserted in every generation. Peter sought to stir up our minds by way of reminder because we are a forgetful people (2 Pet. 1:13). And the first thing... Continue Reading
A Prayer Against Despair When You Battle Sin
A guide to those who are weary in their battle to overcome sin and need to know how to pray and cry out to God for help.
Even though I am distressed, I am not broken. Even though I am overwhelmed and all I feel is despair, there is hope. Keep me from losing heart. Paul says that though my outer self is wasting away, my inner self is being renewed every day. Help me to see this. Help me to look... Continue Reading
Tulip: Limited Atonement
For whom did Christ die?
The Son, the good Shepherd, lays down His life for His sheep. The sheep for which He dies are His sheep. In fact, the Lord says that He knows His sheep and His sheep know Him, even as He knows His Father and His Father knows Him. That is incredible! How should we understand such a thing? ... Continue Reading
Reframing Stories
The Bible has a set of overarching stories that, when lived deliberately, reshape our lives.
Jesus walked out of a tomb and nothing have been the same since…Down and down and then up and up is the shape of the Bible’s story and of many of its stories. It’s the shape of our lives, repeated deaths and resurrections until the Lord returns to raise the faithful dead. David Foster Wallace... Continue Reading
The Lord’s Work in the Lord’s Way
Three Sentences That Shaped My Ministry
“The end to which all church order, on the Puritan view, was a means, and for which everything superstitious, misleading, and Spirit-quenching must be rooted out, was the glory of God in and through the salvation of sinners and the building up of lively congregations in which people met God.” I have read sentences... Continue Reading
A New Religion With a New Sacrament?
Anyone who tells us to “trust the science” is advocating a dogmatic, unreasoning religion, not science.
For us Christians, let vaccines be vaccines and not sacraments. Let science be science and not a new religion. If something may not be questioned, however, it is a religion and not science. John Calvin (1509–64) famously wrote that the human heart is a “perpetual factory of idols” (Institutes 1.11.18). What he meant is that... Continue Reading
“Woke Racism”—A Review
McWhorter asks: can even those supposedly enlightened and self-appointed champions of anti-racism think and act in ways that harm black America?
One of the banes of liberalism in our time is the unwillingness to criticize bad ideas honestly for fear of being misconstrued as a bigot; the assumption of the lowest possible motive when assessing these criticisms is the other. Together, they constitute a strait jacket—they make progress impossible. A review of Woke Racism: How a... Continue Reading
Tulip: Unconditional Election
There was never a time in this life, nor extending back into eternity, when God was indifferent toward his elect people.
Nothing will prevent the Spirit of God from uniting all souls of God’s elect church to Christ by faith. Not even foreseen unbelief will prevent this. It too will necessarily give way and be overcome by grace. Having chosen men without regard to conditions, no condition will hinder Him in bringing those appointed to eternal... Continue Reading
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