We are receiving significant positive feedback for the most recent Mortification of Spin podcast on how pastors and elders should respond to spousal and sexual abuse in the church — feedback, that is, from those who have suffered, or helped…
We are receiving significant positive feedback for the most recent Mortification of Spin podcast on how pastors and elders should respond to spousal and sexual abuse in the church — feedback, that is, from those who have suffered, or helped…
iv. Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ, but alsot he infants of one, or both, believing parents, are to be baptized. The fourth topic treated by the Westminster Confession’s teaching on baptism pertains…
ii. The outward element to be used in this sacrament is water, wherewith the party is to be baptized, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, by a minister of the gospel,…
Iain D. Campbell and William M. Schweitzer, eds., Engaging with Keller: Thinking Through the Theology of an Influential Evangelical (Darlington: Evangelical Press, 2013), 240pp. paperback, £9.99/ $15.99 This fascinating volume is something of an in-house discussion into which, because of…
My brother, Luke, has a mixed martial arts academy. He wrote an interesting article yesterday that I wanted to interact with called “The Art of Fighting Without Fighting.” He begins with a scene from a Bruce Lee movie: While on…
Parenting has reached a new level of difficulty for Matt and me. I accepted the role of assigning the reading assignments for our children this summer. For my 8-year-old son, it was pretty easy. His second grade teacher finished off…
Here is the latest: Today’s episode of The Mortification of Spin takes on a more serious tone as Todd and Carl offer a pastoral approach to the sensitive topic of spousal abuse. In tragic cases of abuse within the church,…
i. Baptism is a sacrament of the new testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible church; but also, to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant…
My dear friend Pastor James La Belle e-mailed me letting me know that the Presbyterian Church of Cape Cod is once again hosting its annual Cape Cod Reformed Conference (Nov 8-10, 2013). The keynote speaker this year is well-known author…
