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  • Baptismal Exhortation: Jesus Loves the Little (Covenant) Children 

    Baptismal Exhortation: Jesus Loves the Little (Covenant) Children 

    In Psalm 71, the psalmist says “You are my trust from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from birth.”  In Psalm 22, David says, “You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.” In Luke 18, believing parents bring their infants to Jesus for a blessing. Jesus laid hands on them and said, “To such belongs the kingdom of God.” In Read more

  • Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving

    This week, millions of Americans will gather for Thanksgiving. But will they really be giving thanks? And who will they thank? The Thanksgiving holiday is an annual reminder that our nation has wonderful (though obviously imperfect) Christian heritage. The influence of the Christian faith upon our nation, its government, its culture, its institutions, is the Read more

  • Why the West Has Been the Best 

    Why the West Has Been the Best 

    A study was done by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2002 to discover why the West has had such historical success. This is what they found: “One of the things we were asked to look into was what accounted for the success, in fact, the pre-eminence of the West all over the world. Read more

  • Sermon Follow Up (11/12/23)

    Sermon Follow Up (11/12/23)

    Robert Rayburn’s sermon on 1 Samuel 6 captures the essence of the point I was driving at in my sermon on the same text, namely the demand that our faith in God must produce fear of God and obedience to God. Here some excerpts from his sermon (the last two paragraphs are especially important): “Behold the goodness Read more

  • Sermon and Sunday School Follow Up (11/5/23)

    Sermon and Sunday School Follow Up (11/5/23)

    These notes went out in last week’s updates email. The bulk of the message is follow up material on Sunday School (audio available soon) and the sermon from 1 Samuel 5 (audio available here). In Sunday School, we looked at various roles and titles ascribed to Mary in Scripture and in church history. We spent a Read more

  • The True Fight for Social Justice

    The True Fight for Social Justice

    Let the Church Challenge the Idols of Our Day(Or: Let the Church Fight for True Social Justice) The article was originally written in 2017, but I trust it’s still relevant. Let the church recover her role as a promoter of true social justice, especially against the most pernicious idols of our day, same-sex “marriage” and Read more