For the Lord is good
“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!” (Ps 34.8) The goodness of God is a topic that repays careful contemplation. Vast tracts of biblical teaching are devoted to this theme (Exod 33.19; Pss 34.8; 100.5; etc.), and the…
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Is Jesus the Pattern for our Faith?
Now the great design of all believers is to be like Jesus Christ, in all grace, and all the exercise of it. He is in all things their pattern and example. Wherefore, when they have a view of the glory…
Our Church Plant Welcome Video
After 8 months of attempting to plant a church in Richmond, Virginia, by God’s grace, we had our first service on October 26, 2014. Crown and Joy Presbyterian Church meets each Sunday at 2pm. Here is our welcome video.
Logos 6 arrives
The friends at Faithlife were kind enough to send me an advance copy of Logos 6 to play around with. Current users of Logos will already have a pretty good notion of what they are dealing with. New or prospective…
Receiving Criticism
As a Pastor, I get some really encouraging emails from my congregation: “Pastor Mark, thanks for the message today. I never leave Faith encouraged, convicted, and prompted to keep going on in the faith. Take care, ___” I’m sure my…
What’s Your Worldview?
James N. Anderson. What’s Your Worldview? An Interactive Approach to Life’s Big Questions. Wheaton, IL: Crossway. 112pp. $10.99 To say that books on worldviews are something of a cottage industry in evangelical circles would immediately stand me in good stead…
Christ’s Temptation: Would he live by faith?
The life he lived, he lived by faith in God who loved him and gave the Holy Spirit to him. The temptation of Jesus in the wilderness furnishes us with clear evidence that the life he lived he lived by…
The First Baptist Theologian: Tertullian of Carthage (c.160 – c.225)
A Baptist preacher I know once informed me that while Presbyterians trace their lineage to the 16th century reformer John Calvin, Baptists trace theirs to the first century prophet John the Baptist. Though most Baptists I know aren’t hugely invested…
Reformed tradition taking root in China
China may be emerging as another global center of Reformed faith and practice. If so, East Asia would seem to be well on its way to becoming the heartland of the Reformed tradition in this century. True, outside South Korea,…
What Luther Says to this Confessional Age
We live in a confessional age. Not in the good sense of, say, the Westminster Confession or of principled Presbyterianism. Rather, the grim cult of counterfeit authenticity seems to mean that every scoundrel and charlatan can find absolution for their…