Following on from the introduction, here is the first element of a scriptural framework helping us through the issue of respect for civil authority. A Proper Subjection Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no…
It was recently my privilege to have published a new book with the title, Passing Through: Pilgrim Life in the Wilderness. The fundamental premise of the work is that the church needs to recover its pilgrim identity, and from that…
I have little idea what challenges American churches (and other institutions) that refuse to recognize same-sex “marriages” may soon face in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, announced today. The Wall Street Journal’s Jerry Seib says this feels…
At the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5 President Obama called Christians to exercise humility in their responses to Muslim acts of terror, referencing some of the great sins of the Christian tradition. His comments provoked a sharp backlash, much…
At the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5 President Obama called Christians to exercise humility in their responses to Muslim acts of terror, referencing some of the great sins of the Christian tradition. His comments provoked a sharp backlash, much…
As we were all pondering the death of Elisabeth Elliot this week, Rick Phillips reminded us of another June 15 death – the passing in 2000 of Dr. James Montgomery Boice, pastor of Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church. My first pastor.…
Well school is out and the calendar also confirms the beginning of summer. But it’s not quite official for me yet because I haven’t started on my summer reading list. My family has moved from West Virginia back to Maryland…
I was reminded by events elsewhere yesterday how much I rely on my elders. The task of the elder is to pastor the pastor. If they do not do it, nobody else will. That means there will be times when…
Jon Balserak, John Calvin as Sixteenth-Century Prophet, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiv + 208pp. Jon Balserak’s new monograph on Calvin as a prophet, a sequel to his Establishing the Remnant Church, Calvin’s Lectures on the Minor Prophets, 1556-1559, (Brill,…
If you haven’t already, please read the first three pieces to this series on my personal journey towards understanding Race and the American church (the first can be found here, the second here, and third here). It is my hope…
