Last year, Hohn Cho concluded Grace Community Church had made a mistake. The elders had publicly disciplined a woman for refusing to take back her husband. As it turned out, the woman’s fears proved true, and her husband went to prison for child . . . Continue reading →
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Brothers In Christ Or In Class?
There are a number of ways to look at the current divisions that are emerging in traditional Protestant and evangelical circles in the United States. The old fault line between those who affirm and those who deny the reality of the supernatural—the . . . Continue reading →
Jesus Already ‘Gets Us,’ We Need To Get Him
Now, as the UMC shrinks, Methodists are spending millions of dollars through The Servant Foundation to run an exceedingly silly campaign called “He Gets Us.” Trying to be relatable, they have run ads during sporting events wading into the cultural fight with . . . Continue reading →
Longing For Relief, Holding Fast Under Siege
The Germans surrounded the American soldiers there, outnumbering them more than two to one. They bombarded them night and day with tanks, mortars, and artillery. The deep snow and bare birch trees of deep-midwinter Ardennes formed the dramatic backdrop to the violence. . . . Continue reading →
Is The Local Church A Tool Of The Enemy?
Dear Wormwood, Attending a local church today is one of our greatest tools to keep people out of heaven. I’m so glad that the glory of the invisible church, spread out throughout the world from the beginning to end, is not seen . . . Continue reading →
Turretin Was A Devoted Churchman
Turretin took his ministry seriously, refusing an appointment to the Chair of Philosophy at the Academy, since his pastorate was taking all of his time. In 1652, however, the church in Lyon repeated their request. To convince Turretin to answer their call, . . . Continue reading →
Weaponizing Scriptural “Authority” In Marriage
We all know the passages. We’ve heard at least a portion of them read at nearly every wedding: “wives submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord” (Eph 5), “For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but . . . Continue reading →
Jon Moffit on Pietism and Assurance: Men’s Conference in Monroe, Michigan, March 3–4 2023
On the mountain, Jesus taught his disciples to “seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness” (Matt 6:33). The overall aim of the Christian life is to pursue God’s kingdom, not our own kingdoms in this world. Turning away from ourselves, . . . Continue reading →
The Ancient Pagans Regarded Christians As “Haters” Too
In the midst of the high octane culture wars of the last ten years, Christians have been labelled all sorts of things: intolerant, bigoted, arrogant, narrow, dogmatic, just to name a few. But, one noteworthy word stands out. Christians have been labelled . . . Continue reading →
New In Print: Machen’s Doctrine Of Salvation
The February, 2023 issue of Tabletalk, published by Ligonier, features J. Gresham Machen and is entitled Christianity and Liberalism. It features essays by Stephen Nichols on “The Modernist Conflict in the American Church,” W. Robert Godfrey on “Christianity and Worldly Philosophy,” and series . . . Continue reading →
Where Is Faith In Justification?
In Romans and other Pauline epistles, repentance is a fruit of God’s grace rather than its cause. For example, we find in Romans 2:4: Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s . . . Continue reading →
New: Resources On Jude
Jude is a small book with a big message and one that is especially relevant for the church in the 21st century. In connection with Dr Perkins’ new commentary on Jude we are publishing this resource page to aid your study of this important book. Read more»
Top 5 HB Posts For The Week Of January 23—29, 2023
These were the most popular posts for the week beginning January 16, 2023: Brad Isbell, “Do You Know Of A Good P&R Church Nearby?” Chris Gordon, Chris Gordon: The Postmilllennialist Use Of 1 Corinthians 15:25 Is “Sloppy Exegesis” R. Scott Clark, How Not . . . Continue reading →
Popes, Progress, And Protestant Evangelicals
When John Paul II was elected pope in 1978, some American evangelical observers of Rome referred to him as “J2P2.” About ten years later that nickname receded, an indication of a significant transition in his pontificate: this pope was becoming even more . . . Continue reading →
Sayers Knew What Time It Is
Something is happening to us today which has not happened for a very long time. We are waging a war of religion. Not a civil war between adherents of the same religion, but a life-and-death struggle between Christian and pagan. The Christians . . . Continue reading →
Does Jesus Love Sinners In The Mountains, On The Plains, and In the Hollers?
The Mission to the Middle
On Tuesday of this week, HRA board member, PCA ruling elder, and co-host of the Presbycast, Brad Isbell published an important essay, which called attention to the lack of attention paid, in the confessional Presbyterian and Reformed world, to the forgotten middle . . . Continue reading →
Living With True Comfort In The Faithful Love Of God
Many struggle to see Moses’ answer in Psalm 90. Often, the solution of this psalm is presented rather moralistically, as if the imperative of verse 12 is the singular answer: “So teach us to number our days so that we gain a . . . Continue reading →
Top 5 HB Posts For The Week Of January 16—22, 2023
These were the most popular posts for the week beginning January 16, 2023: Continue reading →
Chris Gordon: The Postmilllennialist Use Of 1 Corinthians 15:25 Is “Sloppy Exegesis”
Postmillennialism has, as of recent, become the rage in online discourse and in popular books like Stephen Wolfe’s Christian Nationalism. This has been curious to me as a pastor in the Reformed tradition due to the fact that most Christians recognize that . . . Continue reading →
New Resource Page: Resources On The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project, a product of the New York Times, now a television series on Hulu, is a deeply flawed re-telling of American history. It is not simply that one disagrees with the conclusions of the 1619 Project—historians often disagree about conclusions—what . . . Continue reading →