Four Things To Keep In Mind For Your “Last Sermon”
Sinclair Ferguson, in his chapter “I Shall Not Want” in the Richard Allen Bodey ed. If I Had Only One Sermon to Preach, set out four... Read More
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The Grace of Remembering
Forgetting something important is one of the most frustrating experiences in life. If we forget an appointment, a birthday or directions we become painfully aware... Read More
Stuart Robinson’s 8 Point Interpretation of Genesis 3:15
Stuart Robinson, one of the leading Southern Presbyterian theologians of the 19th Century, set down 8 points of interpretion of Genesis 3:15 in his biblical-theological masterpiece Discourses... Read More
Suffering, Chastisement and the Fatherly Love of God
I was blessed to have grown up in a home in which I had a father who both taught me about, and who modeled, loving... Read More
Baptism in the Reformed Tradition (Resources)
A few weeks ago our Presbytery hosted our first ever Minister’s Conference. The title of the Conference was “Today’s Elders and Deacons—Ancient Offices for Today’s... Read More
A Biblical Theology of Darkness and Light
An interesting series of biblical-theological allusions to light and darkness emerge in the Gospel of John. In the first 14 verses of chapter 1, the... Read More
A Faith That Triumphs And Suffers
There is a fascinating observation, made at the end of Hebrews 11, regarding the outcome of saving faith in the “here and now” of the... Read More
The Apostolic “We” Passages
One of the marked features of the ministry of the Apostles was that they modeled what it means for ministry to be about Christ and... Read More
A Biblical Theology of Exile/Restoration in the OT Prophets
Just as Adam was exiled from Eden and promised restoration through the redemptive work of the promised Messiah (Gen. 3:15), so Israel served to typify judgment... Read More
C.S. Lewis on the Right of Private Judgment
In his Preface to Paradise Lost, C.S.Lewis masterfully challenged T.S. Eliot’s position that “the best contemporary practicing poets are the only ‘jury of judgment’ whose verdict on his own views of Paradise Lost he will accept.” Lewis pulled on Eliot’s thread of logical fallacy in what... Read More