Saturday Psalm Series: An Introduction to Psalm 88

Light in the Midst of Darkness

O LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you. Psalm 88:1 In Medio Tenebras Lux On June 5, 2022, terrorists attacked St. Francis Catholic Church in Nigeria. Dozens of worshippers were killed, and the priest himself was kidnapped. . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Journeys With Jesus

Office Hours Video

Millions of Christians gather every week to hear sermons preached, we trust, from God’s Word. Believers read and study it. Pastors and elders study it but we do not always agree about how to understand it. How often have you heard someone . . . Continue reading →

S-T-O-P Means Stop (or Does it?)

In 25 years of ministry one of the most profound changes I’ve seen is the growing inability and/or unwillingness of Americans to read texts according to the intent of the author. One of the major reasons for this change was the mutation . . . Continue reading →

Any Text Without A Context is Pretext for a Prooftext (Updated)

So said my homiletics (preaching) prof, Derke Bergsma. I don’t know if that aphorism was original to Derke (he often quoted R. B. Kuiper to us in class, e.g., “Men, there are three points to every sermon, the text, the text, the . . . Continue reading →