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…
Listening to the family members of those who were mercilessly killed in the Charleston church was an opportunity to witness some of the best theology you’ll see in your life. I only hope that if I am ever faced with…
Last evening I was greatly blessed, together with many members of the congregation I serve, to participate in a prayer vigil for the nine victims of the racist attack on Emmanuel AME in Charleston. The service was held at Allen…
“Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but…
So much can and should be said in response to the horrific murders that occurred in Charleston, SC at Emanuel AME Church. But one thing is for certain, the actions of the murderer cannot be adequately described in anything less…
Most evangelical presentations of the doctrine of Scripture are implicitly trinitarian. They identify the Father as Scripture’s primary author, the Son as Scripture’s central subject matter, and the Spirit as the immediate agent of prophetic and apostolic inspiration. Scripture is…
