“Believers obey Christ as the one by whom our obedience is accepted by God.  Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect and unable to abide in God’s presence.  Therefore, they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers...

“Thursday in Minneapolis it was so gorgeous walking home I thought: I should write a post on how astonishing it is that no earthquake swallowed up this city today. Instead God sent warmth and crystal skies and cool breezes and golden leaves and hanging sea gulls over Elliot Park. Amazing. Absolutely...

Mike Ratliff has posted an excellent article on the condition of the visible church with regards to a lack of understanding and preaching on repentance.  In fact, it seems these days that even mentioning repentance may get you thrown out of the “popular” culture within the church visible. The...

At first glance of the title  When Sinners Say “I Do”, It is possible that an immediate response might incur a curiosity that leads to the question: “Does this book address the hard results of a marriage covenant made between two non-believers?” This is a great assumption for that matter. Yet,...

“Salvation is wholly of grace, not only undeserved but undesired by us until God is pleased to awaken us to a sense of our need of it. And then we find everything prepared that our wants require or our wishes conceive; yea, that He has done exceedingly beyond what we could either ask or think. Salvation...

“Again, the grace of God is sovereign. By that word we mean that God has an absolute right to give that grace where he chooses, and to withhold it when he pleases. He is not bound to give it to any man, much less to all men; and if he chooses to give it to one man and not to another, his answer is,...

This is great…

A few days ago I was meeting with brother Tim to spend our weekly “theology talk” time together on Wednesday evenings and I was joyfully showing him a new book I was reading.  He commented that I must have some bottomless resource for book collections.  :-)  I must say that after the Lord...