Category Reading with M’Cheyne

“It is because you made offerings and because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies that this disaster has happened…

“And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision” (1 Sam. 3:1). This is a very disturbing statement – at least, it should be to anyone who cares about the Word of God.…

“Priests guilty of sexual misconduct in the sanctuary”  No, this is not a headline from one of today’s sleazy newspapers (though it could well be); it is a headline that characterizes the goings on in Shiloh where Eli two reckless…

God’s people may find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, but God’s grace is always sufficient and powerful to enable us to persevere and display extraordinary acts of godliness. Such is the lesson of the first chapter of 1 Samuel where Hannah’s…

If, yesterday, we saw in Ruth 2 a depiction of godly woman, Ruth 3 gives us the counterpart depiction of a godly man, one that emerges in the unbearably tense situation to which he was exposed. For, at dead of…

As Ruth finds herself gleaning in the field of a near-kinsman by the name of Boaz, he, in turn, is immediately impressed with her – enough to begin making inquiries about her (2:5, 14). What is it about her that…

We find that Paul has made his way to Athens, the great center of classical learning as well as pagan idolatry. What we discover is that rather than railing at the Greeks or separating from them, Paul engages them and…

This is another important chapter for understanding Presbyterian and Reformed practice. What we find here is this basic principle: households are counted among the visible people of God based on the faith of the household head. The first example of…

I never tire from telling our people that Acts 15 is one of the key texts for Presbyterian and Reformed polity. And that is because in this text we see that the church is not merely local and universal, but…

Every time I’ve ever read this text, I’ve thought how well it describes ministry. In particular, we have here two wrong responses to ministers and their ministry of the Word.  First, people respond wrongly to ministers when they idolize them.…