Likeness is the ground of delight; God loves himself for his own holiness, and they are best loved and liked that are most holy. – Manton Can God’s love for us increase? We can answer this question – as indeed…
Most pastoral situations involving sin are quite complex. For example, when someone tells me about a person who got a divorce and then they proceed to ask me whether I think there were biblical grounds, I almost always refuse to…
In a recent blog post I urged the biblical basis for the spirituality of the church. One of the points I made is that while the church does not meddle in civil government, it most certainly may speak against social…
The Preacher wisely said that “there is nothing new under the sun,” and however aghast our pundits may be at the sudden rise of Trumpism, we really have seen it all before. The radicalization and fragmentation of the Republican Party…
Introduction According to Nicholas Wolterstorff, worship is the “Godward acknowledgement of God’s unsurpassable greatness . . . whose attitudinal stance toward God is awed, reverential, and grateful adoration.” As we saw in our last post, this definition aptly summarizes the…
In John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize winning Confederacy of Dunces, Ignatius Reilly is an absurd hero. He’s brilliant, yet undisciplined. He has cultivated a philosophy of taste and decency, but it doesn’t stop him from gorging himself on hotdogs. He…
In John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize winning Confederacy of Dunces, Ignatius Reilly is an absurd hero. He’s brilliant, yet undisciplined. He has cultivated a philosophy of taste and decency, but it doesn’t stop him from gorging himself on hotdogs. He…
Saturday afternoon brought the shock to the country that the legendary United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in his sleep in Texas. My first thought was that the loss of this great jurist, which would be a tragedy…
Ezra-Nehemiah and the Casting Off of Foreign Wives and Children: How Should We Preach It? The book of Ezra concludes with one of the sadder themes in redemptive history. After the priest Ezra takes the leadership of the post-exilic Jewish…
Sean Michael Lucas’s fascinating book, For a Continuing Church, highlights in no uncertain terms the vital importance of the doctrine of the spirituality of the church to the origins of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). Next to the authority…
