The Centrality of the Written Word
"God’s Word internalized by the Holy Spirit captured my soul. At a tender age God had claimed me for Himself through His Word. I strayed, but God drew me back."
May 1, 2009
Moral Principles Do Not Exist
"We’re entering Lent again, the season of repentance, but to repent there has to be sin to repent of. But what is sin?
Sin is not something physical; we can’t put a chunk of sin on a table to analyze it."
Mar 1, 2009
Trusting Providence
"You see, the point is that in the short run we often do not know if something is good or bad, but God knows, and He is working out His plan for each of His children. We must learn to trust His providence."
Jan 1, 2009
The REC General Council and the Anglican World
Every three years the Reformed Episcopal Church has its denominational meeting. Last month (October 2008), we met in Victoria in Canada. This triennium, much was said about Anglicanism throughout the world.
Nov 1, 2008
Back to Normal?
"We often say that we would like for things to get back to normal, but what is “normal”? We usually mean by “normal” that we want things going our way, with no bumps in the road, no health problems, no financial difficulties, no mean people intruding, just smooth sailing through life with the wind to our backs."
Sep 1, 2008
Why Me?
"Why me? It seemed that the Lord was wasting two years of my time. I was frustrated, fearful that I might not return, sometimes angry, and yet God had given me a measure of faith.
What was the point of it all?"
May 1, 2008
Bodily Resurrection of Christ
"Aristotle died 322 BC, and we have 5 of his manuscripts, the earliest being AD 1100.
BUT now consider the New Testament. We have fragments of the Gospels dated close to the time of the apostles themselves. How many Greek New Testament manuscripts do we have? Over FIVE . . . THOUSAND six hundred, (5,600) written by multiple authors, though most of them are only of portions of the New Testament, yet we can put the New Testament together many times from these."
Mar 1, 2008
What Does It Mean to Believe?
"But if we say that we believe in someone, that means that we trust the personally implicitly, we trust everything about the person. Likewise, with Christ we believe in Him, which emphasizes that we are committed to Him personally."
Jan 1, 2008
Not Ten Suggestions
What is behind this laxity regarding God’s commandments is a low view of God and His law.
Jul 29, 2007
Hell
Some say it is not nice to teach on hell, yet Jesus taught more on hell than all the rest of the Bible combined.
Jun 18, 2006
End Times
It is a sad commentary on American Christianity that we can sell 50 million copies (and counting) of an end time series about the so-called antichrist, but we cannot sell 10 thousand copies of a book about Christ. What is wrong with this picture?
Jun 17, 2006
Crisis Regarding Christ
Once a man exclaimed to me, "In my church we have no creed but Christ." I responded, "Which Christ? The one of the Mormons, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the word-faith movement, the kenotic Christ, or of the ancient creeds?" Today we have a crisis regarding Christ because we no longer value truth.
Sep 20, 2005
God’s Book, the Bible
We are committed together to this great Gospel that the Triune God has revealed to us, and this revelation is in His holy and infallible written Word, the Bible.
Dec 12, 2004
Spiritual War and Liberalism
Our weapons are spiritual, the Gospel, not physical. It is a great irony that we win by these weapons, and sometimes that means we win by suffering, for it is especially then that God rises up to defend His people, to bring life from death and the advancement of His kingdom from seeming defeat.
Oct 1, 2004
Homosexuality and the Church
What is one to say to the often repeated statement that God's love encompasses everything, and what are some of the issues?
Mar 1, 2004
God-Man
The mystery of the incarnation is something that we shall never fathom. We can behold it, worship the Son, revel in His grace, wonder with awe at His love, but never exhaust its mystery.
Dec 10, 2001
Crisis Regarding Grace
Luther explained that the Reformation was being fought on two fronts, Papists and Anabaptists (I include the Libertines here also), but against a common heresy: human merit that "earned" grace. The same issues confront us today.
Jun 18, 2000
Relationships
The basis for all human relationships is a vital relationship with Almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The hope we have for any change is bound up in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
