Nicholas T. Batzig

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... 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... Read More

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

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

There is one characteristic (common to all great theologians and pastors throughout church history) that young ministers, especially those in seminary, must... Read More

Of all the painful experiences that I have had to face through nearly a decade in ministry–the death of a mother, couples enduring the heartbreak... Read More

  In what is one of the most beloved statements penned in all of church history, the Westminster Divines explained that “God alone... Read More