The Pastor's Blog

Feminism has taught us that men and women are the same, or at least that women should do what men have historically done.  A woman achieves fulfillment (whatever that means) by earning money in the workforce, or so the reasoning goes. Personally, my wife and I decided as soon as we had our first child that she would stay home.  Taking a wife and siringRead more

Eric Schneider and I were recently interviewed by the guys over at the Rebel Alliance Media Podcast to discuss a recent episode of the Unbelievable podcast that featured a discussion between Bruxy Cavey and Paul Carter, council member of the Gospel Coalition Canada. Below is the two-part podcast audio as well as the show notes from this episode of their podcast. Podcast: Part 1: Read more

Over at The Gospel Coalition Canada, Pastor Paul Carter recently wrote a blog on the atonement. In it, he attempted to distinguish between what can be known about the atonement and what remains mystery. I remain grateful for many of the things he clarified in this post, but I want to comment on one statement that gave me pause. Carter asserted: The Bible does notRead more

On Sunday March 29, 2015, as part of my series through Genesis, I preached Genesis 26:1-33.  In that passage we learned that Isaac wandered from town to town as a nomad for many years, and then God finally gave him land, “So he called the name Rehoboth, saying, ‘For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land”Read more

In The Absence of Christ, There Is Death: Seven die of opioid overdoses in first two weeks in Aprilhttps://t.co/uRGqiOO2zt — WR Record (@WR_Record) April 22, 2019 But Jesus Christ Brings Life: This video was produced by John Maggs, Trinity Bible Chapel Director of Creative Ministries, and shown after the sermon on Resurrection Sunday 2019.  Don and Bonnie Stuckless are spiritual giants who walk among us,Read more

Convinced or Converted?  Wounded or Killed? "…that thou mayest not be deceived, consider that it is one thing to be convinced, and another to be converted; one thing to be wounded, and another to be killed, and so to be made alive again by the faith of Jesus Christ." -John Bunyan, Work, vol. 1, p. 556, @BannerofTruth — Jacob B. Reaume (@jacobreaume) April 12, 2019Read more

Woke or Awakened? As only Pastor Doug Wilson could say it. “So allow me to make this as plain as I know how to make it. If your church is not at war with social justice, identity politics, and the charade of being woke, then your church is done. Finished. Kaput. Stick a fork in it.”   Podcast on White Nationalism Ryan Eras from theRead more

The desire to contextualize the gospel springs from a desire to make the gospel understandable to all. Done properly, contextualization is the proclamation of the Christian message in a way that people understand it. True contextualization occurs when the message of Jesus is made clearer to a listening audience. Sadly, what often passes for contextualization is not a clearer gospel, but a muddier gospel. NotRead more