A passage from this morning’s devotions struck home as a verse for the American church, which today seems so prone to be fearful of various politicians and political movements, and of forces are conspiring against the church. The prophet Isaiah reminds…
“From self-conceit and vanity and boasting, from delight in supposed success and superiority, raise us to the modesty and humility of true sense and taste and reality; and from all the harms and hindrances of offensive manners and self-assertion; Save…
The words of Jesus are sometimes absurd, often apparently self-contradictory, and always difficult. His words are never easy because they always strike at our perverted values and exalted idols. This confounds some, enrages others and by the grace of God…
My colleague David Robertson has updated and re-published an article reflecting on cross-cultural mission. That is a nice way of saying that he has a lot of criticism of (some) American mission work in Scotland. The points he raises are…
“The whole incarnation, with all that pertains to it, is one great sacrament of redemption” (Geerhardus Vos, Biblical Theology, p88). Discuss.
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” James 1:27 (ESV) It was third grade and I was watching…
I recently heard that Pilgrim Radio will be broadcasting Christ the Center on FM radio. Pilgrim Radio airs 24 hours a day in 5 States. They broadcast The Al Mohler Program, as well as R.C. Sproul, John Piper, and Alistair Begg. Christ the Center is the weekly podcast of the Reformed…
some basic rule’s of grammar to which we would all Do well to adhere, to: 26 Golden Rules for Writing Well 1.Don’t abbrev. 2.Check to see if you any words out. 3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct. 4.About…
After a brief hiatus — okay, it has been eight months — I return to Dr. Ridding’s litany for pastors: “From weariness in continuing struggles, from despondency in failure and disappointment, from over-burdened sense of unworthiness, from morbid fancies of…
For an answer, see David VanDrunen’s new book.
