Once again Midway Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Powder Springs, GA will be hosting their annual Reformation Worship Conference in partnership with the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. This years’ theme is “Worshipping God’s Way, Not Ours.” I’m planning to attend.…
In addition to modeling and teaching submission to the Word of God, Petrus van Mastricht–in the recently translated prolegomena of his Theoretical-Practical Theology–powerfully corrected my thinking on the relation of reason and theology. Reason is incorporated into theology. First and foremost, Mastricht taught…
I am ashamed of my 17-year-old behavior. By God’s grace I have matured into a 42-year-old with a godly understanding of holiness and identity. By God’s grace, I have repented of my wayward behavior and his righteousness has covered…
Until the third century, as far as we know, no full treatise on the subject of Christian prayer had been written. According to Eric Jay, “Christian literature of the first two centuries by no means ignores the subject of prayer.…
Until the third century, as far as we know, no full treatise on the subject of Christian prayer had been written. According to Eric Jay, “Christian literature of the first two centuries by no means ignores the subject of prayer.…
A number of years ago, I had occasion to fly to Korea via San Francisco. Flying across the US on a clear day is one of those rare pleasures which really allows you to get the geographical measure of the…
So much recent debate surrounding social justice seems to boil down to fundamental disagreements and misunderstandings about the relationship between the “Kingdom of God” and the “Church.” Many have conflated these two biblical concepts so as to lose the clear lines…
We used to talk about the New Age. When I first began to think about how a worldview can shape culture, New Age was all the rage. Now noone even mentions New Age. So it must have failed, right? Actually,…
Technology is at the same time destructive and creative, disruptive and connective. It erases jobs from existence (has anyone seen an ice cutter or an elevator operator recently?), and creates whole new industries and vocations (pause to recollect that no…
Over the years it has been my practice, learned from others, to offer up praises and petitions framed by a passage of Scripture. Some of these passages were read in preparation for preaching, others offered material for meditation in daily…
