As I’ve grown in my knowledge of the Reformed faith, I’ve come increasingly to appreciate the Heidelberg Catechism. In its exposition of the Ten Commandments, the Catechism wisely notes that the first commandment requires shunning “all idolatry” (Q94). When it…
Is Idolatry the New Sin?“Just talk about idolatry and you’ll be fine.” A mentor recently offered these words in my presence to a seminary student who was facing an assignment to preach on the topic of sin. The student’s sermon…
Is Idolatry the New Sin?“Just talk about idolatry and you’ll be fine.” A mentor recently offered these words in my presence to a seminary student who was facing an assignment to preach on the topic of sin. The student’s sermon…
Anyone who has ever emigrated as an adult to a foreign country will tell you that, while the physical process of moving can be dispatched in a relatively short period of time, the emotional and cultural transition takes much longer…
This is an amazing interview with Steven Curtis Chapman about his new album, Beauty Will Rise. Written as “personal psalms” in the aftermath of the tragic death of his five-year old daughter, Maria Sue, this album (to which I’m listening…
Registration is now open for the 2010 Workshop on Biblical Exposition at Tenth Presbyterian Church, sponsored by the Charles Simeon Trust and by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. As usual, the workshop will feature lectures on preaching, model expositions, and…
Russell Moore on what Martin Luther might think about the situation of many of our evangelical churches today: Hardened rebels against God rest easy in a prayer said at Vacation Bible School, or a card signed at confirmation class. And…
Here is “a collection of resources relating to the development of theology during the Post-Reformation / Early Modern era (ca. 16th-18th c.), hosted by the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies of Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary.” HT:…
Christian Smith recently published “Souls in Transition,” a study of the moral and spiritual lives of America’s 18- to 24-olds, based on extended face-to-face interviews. The moral outlook of many young Americans–an ethic based on emotions rather than on reasoned…
Crossway have just published a brand new edition of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, edited by C. J. Lovik with superb (breathtaking) illustrations by Mike Wimmer. “If any smoothing of Bunyan’s seventeenth century language plus new colored pictures can set Pilgrim’s Progress…
