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Five Reflections on #T4G 2014
With thousands of others from across the country, and indeed, world, this last week I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Together for the Gospel conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Far too much...
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Abraham Kuyper Was a Heretic Too
Over the last few years I’ve been saddened to see a number of teachers and preachers of the word of God, along with friends in the pews, begin a sad doctrinal decline, wandering into either...
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Elisha Ben Kenobi and the Power of God
The other night I taught my students on subject of the power of God out of 2 Kings chapter 8. What follows is a cleaned up, very abridged version of the talk. Here we encounter a funny episode in the...
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How (American) Christians Ought to Respond to the Midterm Elections
Many wouldn’t guess this by my writings here, but I am a recovering political junkie. From childhood on, I used to be frenetically concerned with all things politics. Reading the Wall Street Journal’s...
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A Matter of Life or Death: Prayer
This year, my wife and I have committed to sharpening up our prayer life. Our church just went through a series on power and necessity of prayer, and the current season in our lives has been impressing...
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Why Pray? Because God is a Forgiving God
Reading through Keller’s book Prayer, I was reminded of one of the most fascinating and comforting passages in all of Calvin’s Institutes. Many don’t know that one of Calvin’s longest chapters in the...
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A Prayer for My Niece, Siena Joy Stewart on the Day of Her Birth
Siena Joy Stewart. My precious niece. My sister Valerie and her husband Shawn are two of my favorite people on the planet. So far, they have produced another one of my favorite humans, my nephew Jack....
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Loving Your Political Neighbor in an Age of Trumpian Anxiety
For some context, you should know that I am a recovering political junkie/idolater. Many who’ve only known me the last few years wouldn’t have picked up on it. Because of my job at church and my own...
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On Signalling Versus Displaying Virtue in a Trumpian Age
I had a few thoughts on the notion of virtue-signalling after watching this first week of the Trump Presidency, the Women’s March, and the March for Life unfold online. Virtue is a good thing, which is...
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Why We Should Have Utter Confidence in Prayer
At the tail-end of his uncompleted Compendium of Theology Aquinas treats the question of why we must pray to God for what we hope. First, he notes that we belong to him as an effect does to a cause. He...
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