Letter to the Editor: I have a question regarding communion. I am part of a church that was baptist for many years before switching over to covenant theology, including paedobaptism but not ...
Halcyon Letters for Halcyon Times
A Mound of Pink Cotton Balls
More needs to said about the idea of cultural justification. Apart from an understanding of this, there is no hope of grasping the deep divisions that the debates over same sex mirages are revealing. Note that I did not say that these debates are creating these division, but rather that they are revealing them. Same …
Seeing the Blow Land
“That is what the substitutionary atonement of Christ did in history—it made all other sacrifices impotent, precisely to the extent that it was a real sacrifice. That is what penal substitution was for.”
Children of Hagar
Introduction: In my book American Milk and Honey (p. 119ff), I presented an argument regarding the covenantal status of the Jews who did not believe in Christ. Following the apostle Paul, as I thought, ...
The Letters Be Fine
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for your ministry to the body of Christ over the years! I serve as an Elder in my local church and am wondering if you have any thoughts and recommendations ...
Pete Hegseth, the First Amendment, and Me. Oh, and Tucker. And the Swarming Harpies.
Introduction: Last week I had the privilege of bringing the message at a monthly prayer meeting at the Pentagon. I was invited to participate in this meeting by Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of ...
Jim VanderPloeg, R.I.P.
In Augustine’s great book The City of God, he once wrote that in our fallen world, the dead are replaced by the dying. This being the case, undeniably the case, we ought to pay closer attention to this ...
Remarks at the Pentagon Prayer Meeting
Prayer: Our Father and God, Lord of Heaven and earth, we pray to You now, coming to You in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Father, Your Word tells us that if You turn us, we shall be turned. ...
The Very First to Be Raised
Introduction: The biblical doctrine of the resurrection of the dead is straightforward. At the end of our fallen history, there will be a general resurrection of the dead, whether just or the unjust, ...
Hayden and Danis
We live in an egalitarian era, a time of great impudence, when our surrounding culture wants to flatten everything. This is done in the name of lifting up the lowly and oppressed, but like all humanistic devices, it actually winds up tearing down instead of lifting up. If you hate the inequality between rich and …