The Pastor's Blog

Dangers of “Gospel-Centered Preaching”    Kristin Jukes Has a Book Recommendation: “In her latest book, You Who, Rachel Jankovic reminds Christian women that our identity is not wrapped up in this world or following our hearts/feelings but is found in Christ. With all of the humanistic philosophy being sold as Christian content to women, this book is refreshing and convicting. Throughout the book, Mrs. JankovicRead more

The end of parental rights? The Marrow Controversy and the Law-Gospel relationship, my personal testimony of the Sermon on the Mount

Meditating on the Sermon on the Mount has moved my heart in several ways. I began preaching through the Sermon on the Mount just shy of a year ago. I have at least two more sermons to go in this series. Allow me to list eight ways it has moved my own heart as I’ve learned the Sermon on the Mount.

Spurgeon on books for children, white privilege, Pastor Aaron Rock has some words for his local school board,

John Newton (1725-1807) on The Law of God “Ignorance of the nature and design of the law is at the bottom of most religious mistakes.”1   How To Use The Law of God This is helpful stuff: “Scripture shows that God intends His law to function in three ways, which Calvin crystalized in classic form for the church’s benefit as the law’s threefold use.”   TheRead more

Social justice, contemporary worship, James MacDonald, and Pastor John MacArthur.

From Desiring God: “Will Effeminacy Keep Anyone from Heaven?” This article is excellent.  Men and woman are not just distinct biologically, but are designed to have distinctly male and female mannerism.  “Androgyny and effeminacy flatten vital sex expressions between men and women. But God made us distinctly male and female, and gave Eve to Adam (not vice versa), because he already conspired in his eternalRead more

Tim Challies views Rome through Protestant eyes. John Piper on Gospel-centered preaching. The man we need right now. Spurgeon on the need for Christian schools. Julie Roys appears on the Mortification of Spin to discuss her investigative report on James MacDonald and Harvest Bible Chapel.