The Pastor's Blog

The sin of cowardice has a really good reputation among Canadian Christians.  People don’t usually call cowardice “cowardice.”  That would be “unkind,” “not nice,” or “unloving.”   Not being called “cowardice,” cowardice is almost often called “kind,” “nice,” or “loving.”  Cowardice has a great reputation. That’s rather unfortunate because the Bible doesn’t call cowardice “kind,” “nice,”Read more

Last night I was within the vicinity of the abortion debate at Wilfred Laurier University because I wanted to announce the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  I met this polite and articulate University of Waterloo student, and we conversed for about 45 minutes.  I share the last few minutes of our discussion to point out thatRead more

On the cross Jesus Christ suffered excruciatingly, and He became the propitiation for our sins.  Propitiation is a theological word that means He completely satisfied God’s wrath towards our sin and turned God’s wrath away from us.  As I recently explained, the Gospel is a Gospel of propitiation.  That God’s wrath was turned away fromRead more

Winston Churchill once said, “When Civilization reigns, in any country, a wider and less harassed life is afforded to the masses of the people. The traditions of the past are cherished, and the inheritance bequeathed to us by former wise or valiant men becomes a rich estate to be enjoyed and used by all.” WhenRead more

A bunch of big name pastors are gutting Christ’s cross-work from the gospel. Denying that Christ propitiated God, they claim that God did not pour out His wrath on Christ. For them, Christ did not bear the wrath of God. They say that God did not require blood to forgive sins. Instead, they allege, GodRead more

Why did Jesus die on the cross?  That the cross is central to Christianity makes the answer to that question crucially important.   Central to all aspects of His crucifixion is that on the cross Jesus paid the penalty for sin.  His payment fully satisfied God’s wrath so that His death turned God’s wrath away from us.   On the cross he suffered the wrath we deserve…

One of the great tricks of Satan is to tempt us to trade our freedom for illusory promises.  Often, a false sense of freedom and life actually leads to slavery and death.  We see that in our world today.  He plays on our longing for Edenic rest to trick us into hellish torment.  Instead ofRead more

It’s been almost two weeks since a Florida high school was shot up. I avoided the news for a while, mainly because the reports are too depressing. Well past the midway point of a grey February, the political frenzies after these things seem to make the days darker when they’re actually getting brighter. It becameRead more