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  • Servant-Leadership or Mission-Service? Why the Servant-Leadership Concept Needs to Die

    Jesus was not a servant-leader. He certainly served others, but he did not take orders from those under his command. His course of action was not determined by other people, but by dogged fidelity to his assigned mission. He did not run around trying to make everyone happy; sometimes he even made them angry. He Read more

  • Trinity Classical Academy

    [This is a slightly modified version of an email sent out to my congregation a couple weeks ago.] TPC family, Early on in my ministry, an older pastor told me, “The wheels of Presbyterianism grind slowly, but they do grind.” We’ve been talking and praying about starting a classical Christian school and building a sanctuary Read more

  • Who Are You To Tell Me to Question Authority?!

    The “question everything” approach to life is definitely popular right now, which is not a surprise given that we live in a time of crisis. Our historically trusted authorities and institutions have let us down. There is a crisis of competency in many fields; our experts are short on expertise and our elites are not Read more

  • In Praise of the Fullback

    Is it just me, or did society as a whole start going downhill when football teams quit using fullbacks? I miss the fullback position. I bet the guy who played fullback on your high school football team is doing pretty well today. Fullbacks were always the kinds of guys who quietly go about their business. Read more

  • Turning Point?

    Turning Point?

    At our weekly Wednesday vespers service last night, I  took the opportunity to say a few words about the murder of Charlie Kirk. Some of that is reproduced here.  I have not followed Charlie’s work closely all that long, but I have been  greatly impressed by him, especially as it was obvious that he had Read more

  • Quotebook #8

    “The proposition that the United States of America are a Christian and Protestant nation, is not so much the assertion of a principle as the statement of a fact.” -Charles Hodge  — Charles Hodge on the limits of using natural law with the natural man: “The experience of ages proves that the world by wisdom Read more