On August 14, a New York Times article appeared under the title, “Gay Penguins and Their Hope for a Baby Have Enchanted Berlin” (here). Apparently, a pair of male penguins in a Berlin zoo has taken over the care of an egg. Articles have appeared all over the internet celebrating the...

This month, the Alliance is pleased to offer a free MP3 download of Discipleship from the Alliance Teaching Series. Curated from years of biblical teaching, Discipleship presents listeners with thirteen encouraging messages on sanctification, the Church, and the Christian life. Downlo...

I love these perspectives from Anglican bishop J. C. Ryle (1816–1900) on preparing for death by living well. With every passing year, each of us have more precious family and friends who have gone to be with Christ. As we look forward to the day when we too will see Jesus face to face, may we...

Do you remember in Matthew 14:22-33 when Jesus came walking on the waves to his friends in the boat? The disciples were terrified at first, until he identified himself. Peter, always impetuous, asks for permission to join his Master on the waves. It is given, and so he does the good work...

Next Sunday when you gather together to worship with your church, I want to challenge you to do something. Pause and survey the sanctuary. There will probably be people who are smiling, shaking hands, praying, and sharing stories. Maybe there will even be some who are radiating with laughter that...

Scotland Sent Her Best by Rev. David T. Myers

It was on this day, August 19, in 1643 that the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nominated and elected five ministers and three ruling elders to serve as non-voting members of Westminster Assembly.

The Westminster Assembly had convened...

Welcoming Single Parents

Wendy Alsup writes about how the church can see and care for single parents in their congregations. She writes that the goal is incorporation and that the community would be a part of the family as well. 

Don’t Use ‘Calling’ to Avoid Serving

Do you use...

With God’s help, we can scale a wall! Such faith empowered Jonathan, accompanied only by his armor-bearer, to face the Philistines. His confidence lay not in his own strength and talent but in the Lord’s ability to save—and the Lord did not disappoint. God is not a bystander,...

Our friends over at ‘The Messed Up Church’ blog have been sharing resources from ‘Long for Truth’, a website that exists to combat the heresies that have crept into the mainstream Evangelical churches – it’s their desire to see the true Church taken back for our...

When someone as prominent as Mark Galli, editor-in-chief of Christianity Today,puts the social gospel and the missional movement in the same basket, claims they both share a fundamental flaw in seeing the purpose of the church in instrumental terms (meaning, the church exists for the world), and...

This is Satan's most common scheme: He presents the bait and hides the hook. Satan presents sin as fun, satisfying, profitable, and pleasurable, while concealing the miseries and pain that always accompany sin. 

Surely this is part of what Scripture calls the deceitfulness of sin (Hebrews...

“And the soldiers led Jesus away inside the courtyard of the palace (i.e., the governor’s headquarters), and they called together the rest of their unit. And they draped him in a purple robe, and weaving together a garland of thorns, they placed it on him. And they began applauding him:...

Bill Mounce reflects on the death of his father.

I am going to interrupt my normal Greek blogs to share some thoughts about my dad, funerals, and death.

Dad passed away due to complications from two surgeries, broken hip, shoulder, and elbow, all from falling. He was 97. His obituary is on his...

This looks like a useful compilation, though it's from Vincent Torley:

"Seven Nobel Laureates in science who either supported Intelligent Design or attacked Darwinian evolution"

Sometimes it takes people with the skeptical eye provided by a minority viewpoint to see things the majority cannot, comfortable as it is in its unquestioned worldview. Who questions what all “sane” people believe? We actually need a few conspiracy theories out there, and a few...

“In his book…A Christian View of Men and Things [Gordon] Clark comments that the growth of government is the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century.”

    – John W. Robbins, “The Growth of Government in the United States”

The thesis...

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“He who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all—how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32) The above verse supplies us with an...

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(From When Grace Comes Home by Terry L. Johnson) In 1858, a gifted young Presbyterian missionary named John G. Paton sailed with his wife and infant son to the New Hebrides in the South...

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A Dialogue Between Hopeful And Christian From Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress CHRISTIAN: How came you to think at first of doing what you do now? HOPEFUL: Do you mean, how I came at first to look after...

The post From Pilgrim’s Progress: Christian and Hopeful Converse appeare...

An Extract from Charity and Its Fruits by Jonathan Edwards. That we may the better see how heaven is thus a world of holy love, I would consider first, the great cause and fountain of...

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The video of the debate was posted by ReasonableFaith.org – Dr. Craig’s organization. This debate occurred in March 2017 at the University of Dublin, in Ireland.

The video: (91 minutes)

My non-snarky summary is below.

Dr. Craig’s opening...

This excerpt is adapted from R.C. Sproul’s foreword in The Inerrant Word: Biblical, Historical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspectives by John MacArthur

“The Bible is the Word of God, which errs.” From the advent of neoorthodox theology in the early twentieth...

After a brief introduction, starting around the 9 minute mark, Dr. Sinclair Ferguson attempts to provide an overview of the book of Romans in 40 minutes:

Sometimes I almost prefer not to tell who I am quoting. Sometimes people see the name and either tune out altogether, or they respond so enthusiastically they fail to exercise due discernment. But in this case, this quote is so good and helpful that I wanted to share it with you. I will even tell...

This article is part of the Why Study the Book? series.

Who’s Story Is This?

The book of Daniel is a favorite for Sunday school teachers and students alike. And for good reason. It has all the makings of a great story—memorable characters,...

My wife, Mally, and I have seventeen grandchildren, and we love it! Being a grandparent is a wonderful blessing, but it’s also something of a responsibility. With the blessing of our children, we have the privilege and responsibility, with the encouragement of their parents, of pouring into...

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.2 Thess. 3:5

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word...

This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following:  Greet Others.

Do you greet others?

Hear Romans 16:16: “Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.”

Did you hear that?  Greet one another.  Now today we don’t normally...