Excerpted from Well-Driven Nails  R.C. Sproul: A Man Fluent in Latin and CommonLigonier Ministries was established in 1971 to equip Christians to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. Our foremost desire is to "awaken as many peopl...

Can We Recommend A Good Sermon?  If you haven't heard this fantastic sermon, Union with Christ: Mind-Renewing Foundations by Sinclair Ferguson, do yourself a favor and listen to it today. 

Our Thoughts on John Piper and Sola Fide There is a lot of chatter out there about John Piper’s most recent article, Does God Really Save Us By Faith Alone? Obviously, given the title, the piece was intended to provoke a reaction. And... it did. N...

I wrote the following letter to a new born child who was adopted by a family in our church. The parents feared that as the child grew and came to realize it was adopted it might view this as a stigma rather than a blessing. Perhaps they would ques...

I wrote this little piece on April 15th, 2015 barely weeks into my exposition of Romans. I tucked it away as a sort of theological time capsule. But, unlike real time capsules intended document changes that have occurred over time, once this essay...

I knew that people who grew up with a lot of money also grew up with a huge amount of suffering; alcoholism, distant fathers, divorce and all sorts of pain. They basically were shunned by the Christian missiological field…. I found this to be a ve...

Byron YawnThere are two great threads in the Bible: Law and Gospel. The Law is threat, judgment, demand, obligation and condemnation. The Gospel is promise, mercy, grace and redemption. In the first we are required to do but cannot. In the latter ...

Sin is infuriating. I hate it. Not others’ sin generally as observed in society, but my sin. Not what others do, but what I do. Our outrage is too often directed at certain segments of our society, or particular sins. But there is enough sin in ou...

Shame is a demoralizing emotion. It’s an indiscriminate sort of internal bully. No person, regardless of their relative confidence or station in life, is exempted from its ridicule. There is no route home where shame is not waiting for you. It can...

Recently, the leadership of Community announced the decision to include communion in our weekly corporate worship service. The decision itself was made more than a year ago after the elders spent some considerable time and energy discussing our di...

Recently I read several posts about people’s concerns regarding Disney’s newest remake of a classic love story. Of course, I wanted to know what the outrage was about, so I did some research. After reading articles written by critics who saw the m...

Statistics show that anxiety (in various levels) affects about 18 percent of adults in the United States. That averages out to about 40 million people. No other emotional disorder even comes close anxiety’s reach. In 2010 forty six million prescri...