Encouragement to help you through the week.
Beloved, This Sunday will mark the twenty-sixth message in our AM sermon series on knowing God. What a joy it has been to fix the eyes of our hearts upon the glory of God, attempted to grasp something of who He…
Beloved, Last Sunday morning, we looked at Jeremiah’s prayer to God which began with an, “Ah!” This was a prayer erupting from heartfelt desire. Few have written more on prayer than the Methodist minister by the name of E.M. Bounds. While…
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…