By Jonathan Cole (This piece is the introduction to his new book Christian Political Theology in an Age of Discontent)

Anarchist political philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon memorably defined theology as “the science of the infinitely absurd.”^[1] Proudhon, who made this remark in...

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave Jenkins and Dr. Ben Rogers have a wide-ranging conversation about the life and ministry of J.C. Ryle, including how he can help improve our writing and speaking of biblical truth, along with his book, A Tender Lion: The Life, Ministry, and Message...

Remembering David Powlison – Curtis Solomon describes the impact David had on his life and ministry.

Distinguishing Marks of a Quarrelsome Person – You might be a quarrelsome person if…

When Moral Relativism Comes to Counseling – “Moral relativism is our...

Big Business Sides With the Culture of Death 

The signers make the claim that the laws are “bad for business.” While the letter is short on how these laws harm business, it’s long on moral buzzwords like “equality,” “empowerment,” and...

NOT all are able to bear tribulations alike; for, if an human creature were merely flesh without bones, then the body would fall into a lump, or...

Read 2 Pet. 3:8, in its entirety, and you will see that it says something quite different: “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” It doesn’t say “one day isa thousand years,” but that one day is “as” (like) a...

One hears occasionally about closed-minded people who say that one should never interact with seriously incorrect ideas lest one come to hold those ideas oneself. These warnings sound, on the face of it, hysterical and wrong-headed. How can we possibly counteract bad ideas if we don't understand...

When we began reporting on the decline of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), we told you how its continual slide

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Today, we continue with our video series from the recent Former Catholics for Christ Conference, which was held at the Southern View Chapel in Springfield, Illinois this past May 17-19.

Below is the video of the second presentation of the conference, titled…

“Grace Alone” Speaker:...

A Transcendent and Personal Creator

The story of our spirituality can be found only within the biblical storyline, which starts suddenly: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). Already in...

If you think “Four Truths that Jesus’ Garments taught us on Good Friday Day” sounds crazy bear with me.  Look up the passages of Scripture for yourself as I find this very fascinating and it led me to worship Jesus late into the night and early into the morning.

In the Greek...

I don’t say this lightly, but this will probably be the best thing you listen to all day. In this episode, Iraqi-born Wissam Al-Aethawi shares the story of how he converted from Islam to Christ. He now preaches the gospel to Muslims in Michigan and travels extensively helping Christians...

Tucked away in the corner of a museum in Japan is a slab of limey shale. This rock features something incredible—259 fish, with scales, eyes, and fins—frozen as if in mid-swim. It appears these fish were preserved in the position they were in the instant they died. But how on earth is...

Recently, the Toronto Blue Jays called up Cavan Biggio to the major leagues. Cavan is the son of hall-of-famer, Craig Biggio.

In one of his first games, with his father in attendance, Cavan smacked his first-ever major league home run. Take a look at this photo of his dad’s reaction—can...

It’s Synod week for the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America.  For the second time in recent years, these two assemblies are meeting concurrently and on the same site (this time, Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA).  The...

Feminist Sophie Lewis has a series of videos promoting her new book, Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, and this clip caught my eye (video below):

We’re facing a really terrifying attack on abortion—in the U.S., where I live, in Northern Ireland, and elsewhere.

In the past, the...

There’s a new issue of the always-excellent Credo magazine for you to download or read online.

(Yesterday on the blog: Not What You Think)

5 Questions to Ask When You Are Suffering

It was this kind of wisdom that gave people such respect for David Powlison.

Reading the Bible Upside Down

The pope...

Here’s an excerpt from Animal Metaphors for the Christian Life, Robert VanDoodewaard’s contribution to the June issue of Tabletalk:

Stories and examples of lambs, sheep, and shepherding are woven through the Bible from start to finish. Already in the occupation and the worship of Abel in...

Quarrels don’t just happen. People make them happen.

Of course, there are honest disagreements and agree-to-disagree propositions, but that’s not what the Bible means by quarreling. Quarrels, at least in Proverbs, are unnecessary arguments, the kind that honorable men stay away from...

Cameron Bertuzzi at Capturing Christianity asks: who is your favorite philosopher?

Of course, one could name famous philosophers across the ages like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Peter Abelard, Leibniz, Descartes, Kant, Hume,...

Great leaders spend their lives pursuing clearly stated goals. William Wilberforce, for example, said, “Almighty God has set before me two great objectives, the abolition of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.” I am finishing up a biography on the life of George Müller....

His Theology of Justification Compared

We've considered William Tyndale’s doctrine of justification; now we'll compare him with Augustine and Luther. Particularly, we’ll view Luther’s prologue to Romans alongside Tyndale, since the latter depended much on the former for the flow...

On Monday evening I put our carefully sorted recycling out for collection, came back in, put on the TV and found myself watching Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s latest campaigning series: War on Plastic.

Hugh’s outrage was the very on-trend concern about the ubiquity of single use...

Hugh Hewitt interviews Victor Davis Hanson on China. The entire interview is interesting, but what follows below is an excerpt from sections I found to be informative. I don't necessarily agree with everything.

HEWITT: Well, you came to mind because of an extraordinary speech that was given on May...

Rhythm is a constant movement or pattern that shapes and creates form. Rhythm sets up a structure so that uniformity can take place. Many people live life not realizing how much they rely on rhythm, or how much they are shaped by rhythms. Rhythm plays an integral part in life, art, and within...

No doctrine is more fundamental to our theology than the doctrine of God. Concerning the nature of God, we must firmly proclaim that the God revealed in Scripture is the only true God (Deut. 6:4; Isa. 45:5). This truth concerning the nature of God is expressed further in the historic doctrine of...

A Man of Many Gifts

Born this day on June 13, 1786 in Lebanon, Connecticut in the home of a Presbyterian minister and his wife, Ezra Styles Ely possessed many spiritual gifts in the service of his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Named after the president of Yale University to signify...

Have you ever heard a sermon illustration that did more harm than good? I have. In fact, just recently I heard a sermon illustration that was an absolute train wreck. It sent God’s people on an unhelpful diversion, had nothing to do with the passage, and compromised the sermon’s final,...

By Jacob W. Peterson and Leigh Ann Thompson

This May CSNTM has had the opportunity to attend a digital archiving conference in Portugal and digitize in Germany. The images captured during the Beuron expedition are now available in our digital library. In the entry for GA 0197, we include a series of...

Come ye after Me. — Mark 1:17

Where the Selective Affinity Dies and the Sanctified Abandon Lives

One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when...

Men are often masters of delegation. Give them a task, and they can quickly assign just the right person to do it. A simple phone call? Let the office assistant make the connection. Household chore? One of the kids can get it done.

Delegation is a wonderful thing—but what about abdication?...

Two years ago, our family found ourselves in the middle of an intense trial. My mother-in-law, just 64, was diagnosed with cancer already in advanced stages, leading to a summer in which my wife, Corina, spent (in total) three months in Romania as her primary caregiver during those last days. I...

Got any tips on how to help a high-school student engage in schoolwork? My son puts forth the least amount of effort necessary to get the grades we expect from him. He loves Jesus, but doesn’t always see how reading things like Bartleby, the Scrivener is relevant outside the classroom....

39,600.

That’s how many seconds per day theaverage American spends consuming media. That’s 11 hours every day looking at smartphones, tablets, televisions, and laptops.

The World Health Organization recentlystated that children younger than 2 should not have any sedentary screen time,...

What do these books have in common? The sixth volume of Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillionand The Book of Lost Tales, and Charles Krauthammer’s The Point of It All. The author of each died before completing his work. In...

The previous post in this series may be found here.

God has given us the analogy of marriage not merely as some sort of intellectual exercise, but as a means of coming to understand our relationship with God. Sibbes makes four applications, uses, which are to draw from an understanding the marriage...