A Pilgrim's Progress

Most commenters on this blog stay on topic. I appreciate that. One of the unwritten rules of blog interaction is that the topic of the post...

The Protestant Reformation was not a perfect movement, but it certainly did a lot of good. Specifically, God used it to wrench the bibl...

Eric Liddell is a modern day hero of mine who was both a world class runner and a committed missionary. Liddell is most well-known because ...

This post is the fifth in my blog series entitled Church, Bible, and Interpretation - It's Not So Simple . All sorts of people toda...

Does justification by faith alone matter anymore? Is the Reformation over? R.C. Sproul provides excellent answers to these question...

When it comes to the history of the church, most Christians swing to one extreme or the other. On the one hand, some believers look to ch...

The longer I live the more thankful I am for the Reformers. As we near October 31st, the day Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Witt...

Pope Francis has come and gone. The church in the USA remains the same. After all the pomp and circumstance we are left with the vast vari...

I have no interest in the ongoing evangelical "worship wars." However, the older I get the more I prefer the great hymns of t...

In his essay We're All Sadists Now Carl Trueman makes the case that the Marquis DeSade is the most influential thinker of our time. No...

Seventy years ago today the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. I believe this is the darkest day i...

I've never seen or heard so much talk of flags. Why are flags even important? Do they matter? They do, in fact, matter because t...

This may sound odd coming from me, but I'd really like to be Presbyterian. Specifically, I'd like to be a member of a local bod...

Almost all of us have been through it before: the institutional Lord's Supper / Communion / Eucharist. We know how it goes. Most...

If you ask most Christians why they gather together (usually on Sundays), they will tell you that it's for worship. If you then ask th...

When I was in seminary I was required to read The Reformers and Their Stepchildren . Although the book interested me at the time, I didn...

In my previous post I made the case that we should reject the ignorant, politically correct, and patently false notion that Islam is a r...