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  • The Gospel According to Anselm: Death-Bed Pastoral Care and Assurance of Eternal Life

    Theologian and philosopher Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) provides a model of death-bed pastoral care, the gospel, repentance, and assurance of salvation, all rolled together. The Reformers could not (and did not) say it any better. The gospel was alive and well in the twelfth century. Hear Anselm’s counsel in this dialogue – really a death-bed Read more

  • Notes on Reformation Day, All Saints Day, and the Church Calendar (Part 2)

    Notes on Reformation Day, All Saints Day, and the Church Calendar (Part 2)

    [This post consists of notes and emails sent out to TPC over the years on this portion of the church calendar that falls at the end of October and the beginning of November.] REFORMATION DAY – OCTOBER 31 On the eve of All Saint’s Day (“Hallowed Eve,” or “Halloween,” as we call it today), in Read more

  • Notes on Reformation Day, All Saints Day, and the Church Calendar

    [This post consists of notes and emails sent out to TPC over the years on this portion of the church calendar that falls at the end of October and the beginning of November.] Every year towards the end of October, Christians begin to debate whether or not it is ok to “celebrate” Halloween. Ultimately, each Read more

  • Work Until the Workday Is Done: A Lesson from Whitefield and Tennent

    A summary and application of a story told by Iain Murray in his fine book, The Puritan Hope: George Whitefield was once among a group of pastors and they were discussing the burdens of ministry, how consoling it was to consider that this life would soon be over, and how glorious it would be when Read more

  • Israel in Exile and the Politics of the Kingdom

    Some Christians use the motif of Israel’s exile to justify why Christians should not have (or seek) political power and cultural influence. We live in Babylon, so we cannot expect very much transformation of the world around us. We “lose down here,” as the saying goes. There’s no need to fight a “culture war” or Read more

  • Charles Hodge on America’s Christian Founding

    “The demands of those who require that religion, and especially Christianity, should be ignored in our national, state, and municipal laws, are not only unreasonable, but they are in the highest degree unjust and tyrannical.” —Charles Hodge — “The proposition that the United States of America are a Christian and Protestant nation, is not so Read more