Answering the One Big Question
05. March 2024
Why does a good God permit evil in His world? This is the one question that has occupied mankind since the garden of Eden. Many poets, playwrights, ...
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Nahum
10. January 2024
In seventh grade, my history class was asked to name all the presidents of the United States. We got all but one, Millard Fillmore. Not only could we ...
Bad News and Very Good News
22. November 2023
I have some bad news, and some good news. Which do you want to hear first? This is the way that I softly break the fall whenever I have to tell a ...
Jonah
18. September 2023
Roughly 750 years before Christ walked the earth, God’s people faced the looming threat of the world’s superpower, Assyria. The capital city, ...
Obadiah
26. July 2023
Every family knows to some extent the pain and reality of conflict. However, the children of the patriarch Isaac and Rebekah not only started a family ...
Amos
22. May 2023
The minor prophets are some of the richest books of the Old Testament. They are chock-full of prophesies, conviction, and vivid illustrations, and ...
Joel
13. March 2023
What were the dates that Augustine preached; would you know them? How about Bernard’s dates or John Chrysostom’s? When did Calvin preach in France ...
Hosea
16. January 2023
The Apostle Peter gave a pattern for the way we should think about the ministry of the Old Testament prophets. He wrote that their prophecies about ...
A Savior’s Jerusalem Playlist
11. November 2022
Many of us have our favorite pieces of music pulled together into a playlist on Spotify or on our phones. If we’re heading off on a journey, or we ...
Messianic Psalms
12. September 2022
The psalter was not given to focus, finally, on former glory days of a posthumous, Israelite prince. Certainly, much is lost if we gloss over the ...
Imprecatory Psalms
18. July 2022
Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace” (Ps. 83:17). These are strong words indeed! Yet we find such ...
The Psalm Most Royal
09. May 2022
Many of the psalms are deemed “royal psalms.” Whether they are psalms that declare God is king (such as Psalms 93–99) or ones that feature ...
Words For Praise
01. March 2022
In my freshman year at Erskine College, a group of us students discussed the use of words. The specific discussion revolved around certain words like ...
Full of Good Fruits
11. January 2022
“Made with real fruit.” “Bursting with fruity flavor.” “Fruit in every bite.” Advertising slogans repeatedly reveal this simple truth: ...
Songs of Thanksgiving
10. November 2021
In November 1621, at Plymouth, Mass., new pilgrims joined with native Wampanoag Indians to celebrate the harvest. Today, the Thanksgiving feast is ...
The Psalms and Your Repentance
08. September 2021
A decade ago, Carl Trueman wrote a provocative piece in the journal Themelios entitled, “What do Miserable Christians Sing?” He argued eloquently ...
Old-Fashioned or Convicting?
19. July 2021
The historical psalms stir our souls by helping us remember God’s actions for His people in the past, reviving our hope, and shaping the contours of ...
The Psalms in Jesus’ Heart
14. May 2021
As a pastor, I have witnessed many parents sending their children off to college or into marriage by giving them special, parting words. These words, ...
Wisdom Is Without Hypocrisy
08. January 2021
As I send off students from the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the one nugget I leave with them from a counseling perspective is, ...
Heavenly Wisdom Is Unwavering
18. November 2020
During the pandemic, I have grown some red hot chilies. Much to my surprise, and to the consternation of my wife, every seed germinated. The plants ...