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Today, the American Freedom Law Center filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of Margot Cleveland, a Dearborn resident and Senior Legal Correspondent for The Federalist, against the City of Dearborn and . . . Continue reading →
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These were the top five posts for the week of November 2–8, 2026. Continue reading →
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The Heidelshop is growing! We just added several new items chief among them our first book, Harrison Perkins, ed., Remembering the Reformed Confession: Theology, Piety, and Practice (Heidelberg Reformation Association, 2026). Also new in the shop is a stainless steel, copper-insulated water . . . Continue reading →
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It’s hard to describe exactly what freedom feels like. But for me, I can capture it in a single moment. I was arrested last October when the Chinese government conducted coordinated raids on members of the church where I serve as lead . . . Continue reading →
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Importantly, the “you” in Genesis 3:1-5 is plural (“you all”): “for in the day you (all) eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (vs 5). Because of her sinful desire, she ate and . . . Continue reading →
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You may have noticed a change in my X biography and wondered why it now says: “Teaching Elder in the Eastern Canada Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of America.” Having been a Baptist all my life, I have now become a Presbyterian. . . . Continue reading →
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These were the top five posts for the week of October 26–November 1, 2026. Continue reading →
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Conservatives spent sixty years arguing that the family and the local community, not the state, should decide what the good life looks like. The socialist left rejected that because it loves the collective. The postliberal right now rejects it because it is . . . Continue reading →
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Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to . . . Continue reading →
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3. Isn’t the Holy Spirit being given nowadays, then, brothers and sisters? Anyone who thinks that, isn’t worthy to receive it. It certainly is given nowadays. So why is nobody speaking with the tongues of all nations, as people spoke who were . . . Continue reading →
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I was eager to read J. V. Fesko’s new work, Theological Foundations for Counseling. Even though I do not hold certifications in this field, my firsthand experience assisting those with serious mental illness has given me wisdom in the type of informal . . . Continue reading →
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On July 25, twenty-one-year-old Abdul Ballout drove a van into a crowd at Berlin’s Pride festival before stabbing attendees with a machete. One woman was killed and twenty-nine people were injured. German authorities described the incident as a suspected Islamist terrorist attack; . . . Continue reading →
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Pub culture has died, just as the England I remember and loved has died. On a small but notable point, the British government now limits the type of foreigner with whom I can share the buying of rounds. There is no chance . . . Continue reading →
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These were the top five posts for the week of October 19–25, 2026. Continue reading →
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Despite the lessons that history might teach about the creation of an evangelical elite now, a fundamental hiccup in the ideal, whether mainline Protestant, evangelical, or Christian nationalist, is the distinction between the sacred and the secular that pietists (high and low . . . Continue reading →
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Though he’s one of the world’s foremost Reformed theologians, Ferguson has written this book as a simple guide to Christian truth for young people. You’ll search in vain for big words like sanctification, justification, or propitiation. Everything important in Christian doctrine is . . . Continue reading →
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When a preacher uses the Law to “temper” the Gospel – so no one gets carried away and abuses their freedom – he is a legal preacher. Yes, we affirm and preach the third use of the Law. The Law guides the . . . Continue reading →
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These were the top five posts for the week of October 12–18, 2026. Continue reading →
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Chiliasm is the ancient name for what today is known as premillennialism, the belief that when Jesus Christ returns he will not execute the last judgment at once, but will first set up on earth a temporary kingdom, where resurrected saints will . . . Continue reading →
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Congregationalists and Presbyterians were hardly strangers in colonial America. Though from different lineages -– the former from English stock and the latter of Scotch-Irish descent -– there was a growing kinship between them. The 1648 Massachusetts Cambridge Platform affirmed the “substance” of . . . Continue reading →
