Our society has cast off God. One very obvious result is that we have lost what it means to be human. The nature of God and the nature of mankind may be the two most important questions of our time. The Bible teaches that human beings are God's images (Gen 1:27; 9:6). That means God …
The question of modesty can be sensitive. Modesty basically means humility, but it commonly refers to how people dress. When women's modesty is discussed frequently, they start to feel like everyone is looking at them to evaluate whether they are being modest. This is wrong. While some forms of dress are clearly immodest, most decisions …
Many Christians today question whether it's necessary or even biblical to join local churches. Some think joining a church will rob them of personal freedom and independence. Others believe they may attend several different churches without ever committing to just one. Some even believe they don't need to be part of any particular local church, …
(Co-Authored with Garret Walden) “What do you think about Doug Wilson?” is a question we receive often as pastors, and it’s sometimes hard to know exactly how to answer. He has a remarkable wit that he sometimes uses to defend biblical positions in a hostile society, which accounts for much of his appeal among conservative …
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Merkle, Rebekah. Eve in Exile: And the Restoration of Femininity. Moscow: Canon, 2016. On X this week, I happened to see an advertisement clip of Rebekah Merkle reading a paragraph of her book that I believed lacked an emphasis on redemption, the gospel and Jesus Christ. When I said as much, a large number of …
I'm posting this mainly to help define the term "conservative." It's a misunderstood word, though it is frequently used. Many who call themselves conservatives today are libertarians, classical liberals, who advocate a freedom from most constraints both socially and economically. I would generally call myself a classical conservative. Here I’m speaking of conservatism broadly in …
If you missed any episodes of the Modern Marrow Men podcast, you can now find them with a dedicated channel on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. A new episode will release each week until the season is complete. Modern Marrow Men is a podcast John Divito and I hosted for one year to try to explain …
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The Bible prohibits unclean language. This includes all language that society understands be obscene or dirty. Obscenities and vulgarities refer to things that are offensively revealing, disgusting, dirty, ugly or crude. Certain passages of Scripture forbid such speech. Jesus, in Matthew 15:10 says, “And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear …
There has been a good deal said and written about expository preaching, Christ-centered preaching, redemptive-historical preaching, etc., but very little has been said about pastoral preaching. Pastoral preaching is at the heart of true pastoral ministry. It’s expository, based on biblical hermeneutics and Christ-centered, but it goes further. Pastoral preaching is directed to a particular …
The Reformed confessions of faith all affirm that God made a “covenant of works” with Adam in the Garden of Eden. For example, The Second London Baptist Confession 20.1 explicitly refers to this covenant: “The covenant of works being broken by sin, and made unprofitable unto life….” But some aren't sure the doctrine is found …
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