Some years ago I was standing at a pedestrian crossing in the town of Echterdingen, near Stuttgart in Germany. It was a Sunday morning. The crossing light was at red. I looked quickly left and right, there was no car…
1 Corinthians 4:1 “This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.” The apostle Paul was neither afflicted with false…
It is sobering to see the extent to which David, ‘the man after God’s own heart’, spent so much of his life embroiled in conflict. From the obvious tensions between him and his brothers when we first meet him, through…
Carl, thanks for the thoughtful post. As usual, there’s always food for thought–and I always want just a bit more nuance here or there! What do you think about how this all relates to a plurality of elders? It seems…
Russell Moore has written a great piece which exposes the idolatrous nature of Glenn Beck’s ghastly self-promotional pantomime on Saturday, and the evidence this provides of the woeful state of an evangelicalism that, to put it bluntly, greets blasphemy as…
Russell Moore has written a great piece which exposes the idolatrous nature of Glenn Beck’s ghastly self-promotional pantomime on Saturday, and the evidence this provides of the woeful state of an evangelicalism that, to put it bluntly, greets blasphemy as…
A friend who works at a seminary told me the other day of an incident which he described as `personally very instructive.’ Somebody called his institution, wanting to know about the state of the soul between death and resurrection. The…
A friend who works at a seminary told me the other day of an incident which he described as `personally very instructive.’ Somebody called his institution, wanting to know about the state of the soul between death and resurrection. The…
Okay, I don’t hide the fact that I am conservative politically. I believe the federal government is too big and that it taxes people too much. I believe abortion is a moral crime and a national shame and am committed…
Great post from Phil Johnson over at Pyromaniacs on a sermon preached by Lloyd-Jones in 1969. The point of Lloyd-Jones remarks is that the church is yielding to pressure from the cultured despisers of Christianity by rejecting those passages of…
