Romans 14:14 is an initially perplexing but important verse. First, no external things are unclean/unholy in and of themselves. Second, if your conscience (even incorrectly) deems something unclean/unholy, then to violate one’s conscience is a sin. Therefore, even if we…
So far I have surprised myself by sticking to my intended reading list for the Summer, and have just finished Machiel A. Van Den Berg’s excellent paperback, Friends of Calvin. This collection of twenty-four of Calvin’s colleagues, contemporaries, relations, friends…
Hi Phil, Thanks for the warm comments re: The Decline and the suggestion of including James Pennington in future revisions. Pennington is a hero, and like you I appreciate his ministry. I continue to think that in so much of…
Church isn’t boring because we’re not showing enough film clips, or because we play an organ instead of guitar. It’s boring because we neuter it of its importance. Too often we treat our spiritual lives like the round of golf…
Calvin regards the doctrine of Christian liberty as a teaching of primary importance. Without a proper understanding of it, we cannot truly know Christ, the truth of the gospel, or peace within. But people have strong, strange reactions to this…
https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3156959&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. This is not annimation or stop-motion. This is real photography. It’s called “tilt shift.” “Tilt-shift lenses sit off-center of the film (or sensor) plane of your camera to produce photos with extremely…
“Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was…
I saw the following post over at LeadingChurch.org. There is a lot of unsettling truth in this post: I have a friend who is a pastor and his father is a doctor. He told his son “I feel sorry for…
Calvin continues to address objections to the doctrine of justification by faith alone. I want to focus on two points of interest in Calvin’s teaching here: first, the relationship between God’s promises and his righteousness; second, Jesus’ answer to the…
Listen to an excellent discussion on the Al Mohler radio program of why so many institutions that were once evangelical have become liberal or completely secular. This is one of the reasons why I am thankful for the leadership of…
