Abortion and the Christian Church
on April 30th, 2025
IntroductionWITHOUT QUESTION THE abortion controversy is the moral issue of our day. Because it deals with the critical issues of life and death, how the controversy is resolved is the fundamental question we face as a nation.January 22, l973, the U.S. Supreme Court in its Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion on demand in America. The decision distinguished between each trimester, restricting a... Read More
Abortion, Human Nature, and Law
on April 30th, 2025
**Originally published as sermons"What Is Man?"PSALM 8January 24, 1992 1 O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Thy name in all the earth, Who hast displayed Thy splendor above the heavens! 2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes Thou hast established strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease. 3 When I consider Thy heavens, the work o... Read More
The Stones Cry Out
on September 5th, 2024
One hundred and seventy years ago the first sanctuary on this site was completed. The building which stands here today is a near replica of that first one, destroyed by fire in l889, and rebuilt in 1892. The question which I would like to pose for our consideration is this: why did those responsible for this edifice build as they did? Why is the architecture as it is? Are there reasons for the arr... Read More
Marriage & Baggage
on August 29th, 2024
Marriage is a wonderful thing. Nearest thing to heaven, I think. This is why we find it difficult to imagine heaven without marriage (see Mt 22:23-33). The deepest, warmest, most passionate, and most enduring human love is marital love.Yet marriage is not heaven. A bad marriage can be more like the other place. Even good marriages require work, by which I mean, the good in them does not always com... Read More
Children Today: The Internet
on June 1st, 2024
Sociologists are warning that parents are facing heretofore unprecedented challenges. Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School, has documented the challenges in his book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness. He warns of a mental health crisis among youth due to the effects of social media and gaming. H... Read More
Women and Words
on April 1st, 2024
The number that is bandied about is 50%. The average man has 50% greater brute strength than the average woman. She is a “weaker vessel,” as the Bible pointed out 2000 years ago (1 Pet. 3:7). Watch a WNBA game and observe the players struggle to get off the ground as they leap for the basket. Or go to an exercise facility and compare their lifts with men in the military or bench presses. The diffe... Read More
Refined by Marriage
on February 1st, 2024
It has been said (by me and others) that marriage is the most sanctifying of all relationships. Put together two sinners, saved sinners, redeemed sinners, and even sanctified sinners, and there will be trouble. The Taylor-Johnson temperament analysis test that Emily and I took before marriage resulted in flashing red lights for our counselor Howard Eyrich. The analysis predicted conflict between t... Read More
The Maternal and Husbands
on December 2nd, 2023
The maternal instinct in our wives makes better men of us husbands. It pushes us to be moreconscientious as protectors and providers. It forces us to pay attention to the needs of wife and family. It punishes us when selfishly we neglect our duties and pursue our own narrow interests. Most of us are better men because we are married. Our wives’ maternal-driven demands have forced us to grow up, to... Read More
Classical, Christian, and Covenantal Education
on November 10th, 2023
Classical, Christian, and Covenantal Education... Read More
Maiden, Mother, Matriarch
on October 1st, 2023
Louise Perry, author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, a 30-something United Kingdom columnist, feminist, and host of a podcast with the title of this article, has written insightfully about the three stages of a woman’s life. Here is her analysis. A woman is first a maiden: young, single, at the peak of her physical beauty. To one degree or another she is admired and sought for her physi... Read More
Men and the Maternal
on August 1st, 2023
Women are not men and men are not women. We state the obvious for the sake of a civilization that no longer grasps the obvious, denies the obvious, and is at war with the obvious. God made us male and female (Gen 1:28). There are distinctive qualities of maleness not shared by femaleness, and distinctive qualities of femaleness not shared by maleness. What are they? The visible ones are physical. ... Read More
Christian Liberty, Alcohol, & Tobacco
on July 12th, 2023
As I progressed through my seminary education (ca. 1977-81), I began to notice an interesting phenomenon. As men became more reformed in their doctrine, they tended to become more demonstrative in the exercise of Christian liberty. This was particularly true of those who were reared in conservative Protestant traditions which tended to be careful or legalistic (depending upon your perspective) reg... Read More
Recent
Archive
2024
February
April
August
September
2023
January
August
October
December
2022
January
2021
August
October
2020
January
June
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
January
February
2014
2013
January
August
October
November
2012
2011
2009
January
February
March
April