Sermon Video Introduction: As with all checking accounts, it is important make deposits in the checking account of parental authority before attempting to write checks out of that account . . ...
A Warm Invitation to Child Communion
Dear Darrel, Thanks for your letter, and for the pointed questions about child communion. Please thank your session for me as well. It is rare to find the combination of attributes that I see in your ...
Why We Worship the Way We Do
Sermon Video Introduction: The apostle Paul wanted to sing in the Spirit, but wanted to sing with the mind also (1 Cor. 14:15). In a similar way, we come here week after week to worship God in ...
Biblical Child Discipline in an Age of Therapeutic Goo #6
Child Discipline in Community: Sermon Video Introduction: When we baptize a child, one of the things we do is ask the congregation to take a vow together with the parents of the child. “Do ...
A Federal Vision Late Entry
Introduction: I am happy to announce an impending rapprochement on Federal Vision issues, albeit a rapprochement that is still surrounded with a few remaining confusions. I trust that I will be able ...
To Glorify Christ
Pentecost Sunday 2024: Sermon Video Introduction: The Holy Spirit has been active in the world since the creation of the world. He appears in the second verse of the Bible, for example, hovering ...
Is All Temptation Internal?
Steven Wedgeworth was kind enough to respond to my recent post on concupiscence, doing so here. As was true when I read his chapter in Ruined Sinners to Reclaim, I agreed with a lot of this response also. Two places where I would still differ. I don’t think that my (possible) difference with John Owen …
Justification and Concupiscence
Introduction: I was recently sent a copy of Ruined Sinners to Reclaim , a hefty book dedicated to a thorough treatment of total depravity. It looks marvelous. If you have any friends who are ...
Blasphemous and Absurd
Ascension Sunday 2024 Sermon Video Introduction: What we must learn how to stop doing is the bad habit of dividing the world up into separate compartments. Every aspect of our being—emotional, ...
Biblical Child Discipline in an Age of Therapeutic Goo #5
Discipline as Genuine Love: Sermon Video Introduction: In our message last Lord’s Day, we defined what we mean by the word discipline. Our subject this week is “discipline as genuine love,” ...