Encouragement to help you through the week.
Beloved, We are continuing to contemplate our fourth core principle as a church, God-exalting leadership. We have seen that at the heart of presbyterianism is the conviction that local churches are not islands unto themselves but formally interconnected in mutual accountability, dependency,…
Beloved, Corporate prayer is a vital element of the church. It was God’s will for His holy temple under the old covenant to be “a house of prayer for all peoples” (Is. 56:7). It is God’s will for His holy temple…
Beloved, Prior to seminary, Tessa and I were members of a Reformed Baptist church. They would have affirmed nearly everything we have said up to this point about God-exalting leadership in the church (the exception being their denial of the distinction…
Beloved, Technology is not neutral. Carl Trueman writes in his The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, “Technology affects in profound ways how we think about the world and imagine our place in it” (41). Trueman is, of course, speaking…
Beloved, The shorter catechism famously describes God as “infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.” The last two weeks we have fixed our eyes upon God’s infinity and eternity, and this Sunday we…
Beloved, For a number of weeks now we have been seeing how Christ wields His loving authority in the church through a plurality of ruling and teaching elders. But there is another office He has instituted and endowed with authority…
Beloved, We saw last week that Jesus wills to govern His church through a plurality of ordained men called elders. Christ established such a government for the spiritual protection and prosperity of each local congregation unto His glory. I am…
Beloved, As I mentioned last month, presbyterian comes from the Greek word for elder. To be presbyterian is to believe that Christ governs His church through a plurality of elders. When Paul left Titus, a young pastor, in Crete to…
Beloved, As we continue to explore our fourth core principle, God-exalting government/leadership, I intend to flesh out the basics of presbyterianism and our conviction regarding the interconnection of local congregations and the role of broader assemblies of elders in the…
Beloved, As a pastor, I am extremely intentional in my public prayers. I realize that I am not merely leading you in prayer when I cry out to God in public worship, but that I am also teaching you how…
Beloved, I tried my best not to burst out laughing. Part of what was so hilarious was how serious the boy was who posed the question. He wasn’t trying to be funny at all. He was dead serious when he…
Beloved, Similar to the word orthodox, when people hear the word presbyterian it conjures up any number of ideas. Some think presbyterian is a code word for baby baptizers. Others think it is a nice name for theological and moral…