I appreciate IX Marks ministries, and their desire to take ecclesiology seriously. But I did read this from IX Marks and thought it would be good to interact a little with this perspective: Daughter: Daddy, am I a Christian? Me:…
We have been dealing with a well-worn objection to Covenantal apologetics. As we have seen, the objection goes back, at least, to the time of the Reformation. It is an objection that Roman Catholics used against those who would hold…
We have been dealing with a well-worn objection to Covenantal apologetics. As we have seen, the objection goes back, at least, to the time of the Reformation. It is an objection that Roman Catholics used against those who would hold…
Jerry Walls, Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory: Rethinking the Things that Matter Most. Michigan: Brazos, 2015. 240 pp. $19.99 Although two and a half centuries of Enlightenment naturalism have eaten away at the western world’s faith in the afterlife, the question of…
Following on from the introduction, here is the first element of a scriptural framework helping us through the issue of respect for civil authority. A Proper Subjection Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no…
It was recently my privilege to have published a new book with the title, Passing Through: Pilgrim Life in the Wilderness. The fundamental premise of the work is that the church needs to recover its pilgrim identity, and from that…
I have little idea what challenges American churches (and other institutions) that refuse to recognize same-sex “marriages” may soon face in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, announced today. The Wall Street Journal’s Jerry Seib says this feels…
At the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5 President Obama called Christians to exercise humility in their responses to Muslim acts of terror, referencing some of the great sins of the Christian tradition. His comments provoked a sharp backlash, much…
At the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5 President Obama called Christians to exercise humility in their responses to Muslim acts of terror, referencing some of the great sins of the Christian tradition. His comments provoked a sharp backlash, much…
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.…
