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Questions concerning ecumenical affiliations are among the most difficult for any minister to answer. There is a spectrum along which every minister falls regarding their... Read More

When first preparing for ministry, I would sometimes try to envision the Apostles standing before a great crowd of people about to preach one of the sermons that... Read More

  Dr. Joel Beeke once said, “Before I read anything, I pray that the Lord would give me the grace to discern whether or not I... Read More

Many years ago, while reading through J. I. Packer’s profoundly important book, The Quest for Godliness, I happened across a reference to Sinclair Ferguson’s 1979 Banner of... Read More

About five years into the pastorate–trying to discern my own weaknesses and deficiencies–I started to realize that there are essentially four kinds of men (the... Read More

There has been no shortage of writing over the past decade about what role any given local church should have in the community. There is,... Read More

“You must have a guardian Angel watching over you!” You’ve either heard it said or have said it to someone after their life took an... Read More

For decades, the consumeristic and narcissistic culture in which we live has served the unsuspecting and unconscious worshippers of North America with extravagant buildings in which... Read More

The baptism of Jesus is one of the most significant redemptive-historical events in the Scripture; yet one the is so often greatly misunderstood.There is a... Read More

By the turn of the 20th Century, the greater part of the masses in the Western world had been stripped of any sense of biblical... Read More