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Hospitality: The Forgotten Qualification

Matt Foreman
Dec 24, 2024
When considering the qualifications for elders, “able to teach” is often recognized as the one qualification uniquely required for the office (1 Tim. 3:2, Tit. 1:9). Certainly, the unique role of elders centers on “the ministry of the word” (Acts 6:4). But another qualification is often missed or...

A New Exposition of the London Baptist Confession

Matt Foreman
Dec 13, 2022
When Charles Spurgeon republished the London Baptist Confession of Faith (LBCF) in 1855, he famously wrote, “This ancient document is the most excellent epitome of the things most surely believed among us. By the preserving hand of the Triune Jehovah we have been kept faithful to the great points...

Pastor, What Are Your 30-Year Goals?

Matt Foreman
May 31, 2022
In my early years of pastoring, I remember reading books and articles on pastoral ministry and leadership that emphasized the importance of vision and mission and 1-year goals and 5-year goals. Those may have their place. But what if real results and fruitfulness are not short-term, immediate...

Overcoming Doctrinal Pride

Matt Foreman
May 4, 2022
Jonathan Edwards’ short essay on Undiscerned Spiritual Pride [1] is something that should be read by all pastors or Christians in leadership positions. In that work Edwards writes, “The first and the worst cause of errors, that prevail in [our day], is spiritual pride . This is the main door by...

Real Presence in the Old Testament

Matt Foreman
Mar 16, 2022
In 268 AD, a bishop of Antioch, named Paul of Samosata, had begun teaching an early form of Unitarianism and Monarchianism. Specifically, he was teaching that Jesus was simply a human being who had been infused with the divine Logos: a man who became God, not God who became man. Controversy about...

Hypocrisy, Self-Doubt, and the Supper 

Matt Foreman
Feb 24, 2022
Just before Jesus’ institution of the Lord’s Supper, he predicted that one of his disciples would betray him. All the disciples, Judas included, responded with a heart-searching question: “Is it I?” (Matt. 26:22, 25). For most of the disciples, it was a moment of self-doubt; for Judas, it was...

The Divine Word of God

Matt Foreman
Mar 16, 2021
In the book, “Taking God At His Word”, Kevin DeYoung writes, “Scripture, because it is the breathed out word of God, possesses the same authority as the God-man Jesus Christ. Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God.” [1] Over the last 200 years, many critics have disputed such a claim...

Applying the Beatitudes

Matt Foreman
Nov 20, 2019
The Beatitudes, according to Matthew, mark the beginning of Jesus' public teaching ministry. They are the first things that Jesus emphasized as he proclaimed the Gospel of the Kingdom. Unlike Moses at Mount Sinai, Jesus began his Sermon on the Mount, not with commandments, but with promises of God'...

A Better Endgame

Matt Foreman
Apr 29, 2019
Last week, Avengers: Endgame , the final blockbuster Marvel movie, was released, smashing box-office records. The movie is the culmination of an ambitious story arc encompassing 22 movies that Marvel Studios began planning 14 years ago. Endgame brings that plan to its final conclusion. It may...

An Unexpected Friendship

Matt Foreman
Jan 3, 2019
As Christians, it can be sometimes easy to take the Gospel for granted, to not appreciate or fully understand God's gift to us of his Son Jesus Christ, how amazing it is to have a relationship with the God of the universe, that we have "confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus" (...

Doctrinal Pride

Matt Foreman
Sep 11, 2018
Jonathan Edwards’ short essay on Undiscerned Spiritual Pride 1 is something that should be read by all pastors or Christians in leadership positions. In that work Edwards writes, “The first and the worst cause of errors, that prevail in [our day], is spiritual pride . This is the main...

Death, The New Year And The Hope of Christ

Matt Foreman
Jan 2, 2017
2016 was a sobering year for our celebrity-driven culture. A recent CNN article reminded us of the many well known individuals that we lost over the course of the last year. More names have been added just in this past week. More than usual, it seems that many of these celebrities and artists lost...