Signs of life
I have extremely worrying news for certain friends: I may exist! Now, before you declare that this is worrying news for anyone with a modicum of sense, let me clarify things ever so slightly. It has been a matter of…
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Anticipation
Last weekend brought with it all the brouhaha that seems to be the sadly-increasing norm among evangelicals with regard to ‘holy week’ and Easter Sunday. Now, I will deny no man the opportunity to preach about the risen Christ on…
A Response to Rod Dreher’s “Sex After Christianity”
A Response to Rod Dreher’s “Sex After Christianity: Gay marriage is not just a social revolution but a cosmological one.” We live in a time of open opposition to the Christian faith in once “Christian America.” Millennial Christians, raised in…
A Response to Rod Dreher’s “Sex After Christianity”
A Response to Rod Dreher’s “Sex After Christianity: Gay marriage is not just a social revolution but a cosmological one.” We live in a time of open opposition to the Christian faith in once “Christian America.” Millennial Christians, raised in…
Tell Us How You Really Feel: Comments About the Church Plant Initiative
What do you think about our church plant initiative in Richmond, Virginia? From the outside looking in, you can only say so much. The video we created to spread the word and the website we have, which is dedicated to share…
Concern for the prodigal son
Doing a little study this afternoon, I came across this illuminating section from B. B. Warfield on the parable of the prodigal son, and the danger of make it a definitive statement of the gospel. Given the parable’s present popularity…
Your Wife As Your First Ministry: A Good Thing or Bad?
On numerous occasions, I have heard pastors and parishioners remark, “Your wife is your first ministry.” The aforementioned statement can easily be expanded to, “Your family is your first ministry.” However, for the purposes of this brief post, I will…
Pastor: Will You Burn Out?
I continue to be haunted by a question Tim Rice, pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church, asked me at the Hunger Games (also known as the PCA Assessment Center). As one of our assessors, he asked me during our two-hour interview,…
Church Planting in Grand Rapids?!?
This coming Wednesday, April 16th, at 7pm Holy Trinity Presbyterian Church a “new, old church” will launch its first public gatherings in the heart of the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The church plant is beginning with its Wednesday evening…
Christ the King in His Suffering
What does it mean for you that Jesus Christ is King? While many of us could give a good answer, perhaps not many of us would include the profound and powerful testimony of Scripture to Christ as King in his…