Something is terribly wrong when professing Christians do not identify with the church and love being a part of her. Something is wrong when professing Christians fail to be passionate about every aspect of the church and long to invest…
As 2018 draws to a close, we look back on a year in which perhaps the most pressing issue for Reformed Christians is the relationship between the church and the world. How does the church respond to cultural shifts in…
[Editorial Note: This is the eighth post in a series of posts in which we have invited the authors of “The Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel” to expound upon the statement’s affirmations and denials. We encourage our readers to…
So much recent debate surrounding social justice seems to boil down to fundamental disagreements and misunderstandings about the relationship between the “Kingdom of God” and the “Church.” Many have conflated these two biblical concepts so as to lose the clear lines…
I’ve tried not to be, but I can’t help it…I’m a Baptist. I’ve read all I could about pedobaptism, I’ve talked to many friends, I’ve prayed for wisdom and clarity, and in the end, I’ve been all the more convinced…
A friend of mine was recently speaking to a pastor of a large congregation about how things were going in ministry. This particular pastor proceeded to tell my friend that a prominent public figure was coming to speak at the…
In the business world, there’s regular talk of building the right team and how to woo the right people in order to steer the ship when current commitments seem to be hindering production. With the right relationships and the right…
The news of Hank Hanegraaff’s conversion to the Greek Orthodox faith has–not surprisingly–elicited a variety of responses from individuals online. On Twitter, one controversial progressive pastor welcomed Hanegraaff (quite ironically, I would add) to “a greater tradition than biblicism.” Christianity…
Last week the Barna Group informed us that a whopping ten percent of America’s population “love Jesus but not the church.” Lack of “love” for the church, for Barna’s purposes, is essentially measured by lack of attendance at religious services.…
Several weeks ago I re-read J. Gresham Machen’s pivotal, early twentieth-century work Christianity and Liberalism in preparation for giving the final lectures of a seminary course on modern church history. Having originally read the work more than a decade ago,…
