Continuing our discussion on the recent debates over schism, we now turn to what the Old Testament has to say. Redeemed Zoomer’s (RZ) case against Protestant separation rests heavily on the Old Testament. In a debate with Douglas Wilson hosted by Reformation . . . Continue reading →
I always appreciate clarity and directness. These are not missing in the discussions of schism with Richard Ackerman, the Redeemed Zoomer. He has stated his position in the strongest possible terms in an X (formerly Twitter) post on July 20, 2026: “No . . . Continue reading →
These were the top five posts for the week of August 10–16, 2026. Continue reading →
Too many Christians talk about the presence of God like the weather: “It was really saturated tonight.” “It felt dry this morning.” One person walks out of a Sunday service saying, “God really showed up,” while the person sitting right beside him . . . Continue reading →
Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal. (The Enemy’s determination to produce such a revolting hybrid was one of the things that determined Our Father to withdraw his support from Him.) As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals . . . Continue reading →
There is no denying that the visible church in our day is a mess. Some people hold a view of what has been called “Christless Christianity,” a watered-down, self-help version of the faith that uses Christian language but replaces the atoning, redemptive . . . Continue reading →
On the internet, I am a nobody. I do not think of myself as anything more than a local pastor who is trying to be faithful in the discharge of his duty. I like to write, so I do that as well. . . . Continue reading →
These were the top five posts for the week of August 3–9, 2026. Continue reading →
Joshua 6 is one of those passages that many Christians have known since childhood. It is vivid, memorable, and almost ready-made for Sunday school lessons, children’s songs, and vacation Bible school crafts. Israel marches around Jericho for seven days. On the seventh . . . Continue reading →
These were the top five posts for the week of July 27–August 1, 2026. Continue reading →
For various reasons, people in many different professions today are experiencing burnout in alarming numbers. We live in an era when people are always going, always doing, and never stopping. They are busy at work and busy at play. If you ask . . . Continue reading →
J. Gresham Machen was born in Baltimore on this day in 1881, into a prosperous and cultivated Presbyterian family. After studying at Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, and Princeton Theological Seminary, he continued his education in Germany before returning to Princeton Seminary . . . Continue reading →
These were the top five posts for the week of July 20–26, 2026. Continue reading →
If I had to describe Comer’s theological tribe in a sentence I’d say that he is deeply indebted to the Renovaré tradition of spiritual formation. Founded in 1988 by Richard Foster (b. 1942), Renovaré’s mission is to “imagine a world in which . . . Continue reading →
“Religious ignorance and a general unconcernedness about divine things, together with the most profuse dissipation and a growing disregard of moral virtue, are the reigning characteristics of the present age.”1 So wrote Augustus Toplady in a letter to a friend in 1776. Although . . . Continue reading →
In my first article in this brief series, I set forth the biblical and theological foundation for the practice of family worship, noting the great need for it in our day and the great blessing it ought to be in the ordinary . . . Continue reading →
On September 10, 2020, the Calvin University newspaper, Chimes, reported that Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church (CRC) had appointed a deacon who is in a same-sex marriage.1 It appeared that the CRC was about to take a dramatic step toward the so-called . . . Continue reading →
These were the top five posts for the week of July 13–19, 2026. Continue reading →
Death is but a departing; like loosening a ship from the shore or moving a ship to another coast (2 Tim. 4:6; Phil. 1:23). We must all be unloosened from our houses of clay, and be carried to another place, to heaven. . . . Continue reading →
There have been many and varied books written on manhood and masculinity generally, and on Christian masculinity specifically. Many have come at the subject from different angles with different ends in mind. In the era post-COVID, this subject has arisen repeatedly. Many . . . Continue reading →
