God Came Down
It is timely that I am reading K. Scott Oliphint’s God With Us during this Christmas season. I’ve been returning to it in between some other reading projects. My brain hurts while I read it, and yet I keep coming…
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Is God’s law relevant to Christians?
From J.I. Packer’s introduction to Antinomianism by Mark Jones: Antinomians among the Reformed have always seen themselves as reacting in the name of free grace against a hangover of legalistic, works-based bondage in personal discipleship. Characteristically, they have affirmed, not…
Sunday’s Sermon
On Sunday I preached from John 1:1-14. The message is entitled “The Word Became Flesh” and can be listened to HERE.
Reformed University Fellowship
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) is coming to James Madison University. For years, many have prayed for RUF to come to JMU, Virginia’s second largest university. Now it appears that the Lord is answering those prayers. In 2014 Reformed University Fellowship will…
Christmas Reading
If I am a good boy, I am counting on Santa bringing me the following two books for Christmas: From Heaven He Came And Sought Her “This book is formidable and persuasive. Those familiar with the terrain will recognize that…
Presbyterians and American Culture
Bradley, J. Longfield, Presbyterians and American Culture: A History. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2013. xiii + 262 pp. $30.00 In the introduction of the republication of Charles Hodge’s What is Darwinism? co-editors Mark Noll and David Livingstone contend that…
Never Always Winter
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis describes Narnia as a place where it is “always winter, but never Christmas.” This is a perfect way to explain to a child (and to the rest of us)…
Never Always Winter
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis describes Narnia as a place where it is “always winter, but never Christmas.” This is a perfect way to explain to a child (and to the rest of us)…
Hospitality in God’s House
As we were pulling out of the driveway yesterday morning to go to Sunday School, it started. Sure, the newscasters were making a big deal about our first snow of the season, but you never know when to believe the…
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Mullet
A certain URC minister has leaped valiantly to the defense of Paul Crouch and provided evidence that the late reverend even produced an edition of the Heidelberg Catechism: Ref21 is grateful for the correction to our reporting, as always. We…