November 10: Hebrews 5
While the end of Hebrews 4 points us to our great high priest Jesus, we learn in the first ten verses of Hebrews 5 that the greatness of Jesus is…
Sean Lucas
November 9: Hebrews 4
Most Protestants are not used to thinking about priests and especially about what makes a good or superior priest. And yet, the language of priesthood is all through this letter…
November 8: Hebrews 3
In the first six verses of this chapter, the writer to the Hebrews urges us to fix our attention on Jesus–to keep him in our eye and to hold and…
July 30: Acts 17
We find that Paul has made his way to Athens, the great center of classical learning as well as pagan idolatry. What we discover is that rather than railing at…
July 29: Acts 16
This is another important chapter for understanding Presbyterian and Reformed practice. What we find here is this basic principle: households are counted among the visible people of God based on…
July 28: Act 15
I never tire from telling our people that Acts 15 is one of the key texts for Presbyterian and Reformed polity. And that is because in this text we see…
July 27: Acts 14
Every time I’ve ever read this text, I’ve thought how well it describes ministry. In particular, we have here two wrong responses to ministers and their ministry of the Word. …
July 26: Acts 13
When I was working on my first post-graduate theological degree, we were given the assignment of studying the sermons in Acts and discovering the core of the apostolic Gospel. One…
Summer Reading
We are fixing to take some time away for vacation after the PCA General Assembly. Beyond wandering around the mountains of Western North Carolina, one of the things to which…
Liking, Lusting, Loathing
Interesting article in the June 2010 Harvard Business Review. Prof. Uzma Khan and colleagues did a study in which they awarded a gift card to an electronics store to people…