The Pastor's Blog

As part of our after supper routine, my wife and I have started teaching our children Christian hymns.  I see it as beneficial in so many ways, and here I share a few of those ways: First, it is unifying.  There is something unifying about singing together.  Think of the solidarity fans share at aRead more

Jesus Christ is the propitiation for our sins.  That means He fully satisfied God’s wrath towards our sins, and turned God’s wrath away from us.  I recently explained that the Gospel is a Gospel of propitiation, and to deny propitiation is to deny the Gospel.  That Christ propitiated God is very very very good news.Read more

[Updated on July 7, 2018: after videos were discussed publicly, Fresno Pacific University removed some of the videos of Bruxy Cavey sourced on this blog from Youtube.  Eric Schneider has uploaded them to his own Youtube account.  I have updated the source links accordingly]. The cross of Jesus Christ is at the centre of biblicalRead more

I offended a bunch of people on the Internet this week. With the interest of helping, I’ll discuss the major reasons for offense. Originally, I was going to post a follow-up March 10.  I still plan on it, but this is more like the pre-follow-up.  I still have something for March 10. (The follow-up is nowRead more

[Update on July 7, 2018: after videos were discussed publicly, Fresno Pacific University removed some of the videos of Bruxy Cavey sourced in this blog from Youtube.  Eric Schneider has uploaded those videos now to his own Youtube account.  I have updated the source links accordingly]. How far from the teachings of Scripture and theRead more

Tim Barnett has already addressed this really bad Bruxy Cavey video.  Cavey is the pastor of one of Canada’s largest churches, the Meeting House.  I echo so many of Tim’s concerns, and I honestly do believe Bruxy Cavey does need to apologize for his very unchristian apology. To that, I’ll add four more serious concernsRead more

Next Christmas is as faraway as it can get.  So why talk about Christmas?  Firstly, if there is a war on Christmas, and I contend there is, let us now plan before the fog of war sets in next December.  Second to that, the fog of Christmas 2016 has lifted so now is a goodRead more

“Avoid that childish trifling and outrageous twisting of texts which will make you a wise man among fools, but a fool among wise men” (C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 106).Read more