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  • Your Biggest Problem 

    Your Biggest Problem 

    This is my pre-worship exhortation from a recent Sunday: We live in a world full of problems. But do not let the world’s problems cause you lose sight of the biggest problem in your life: Your own sin. Your biggest problem is not what they are doing down in Montgomery, or in DC, or over… Read more

  • William Carey and the Hope that Propelled the Modern Missionary Movement 

    William Carey and the Hope that Propelled the Modern Missionary Movement 

    “Christ must reign, till Satan has not an inch of territory.” — William Carey Carey worked as a missionary in India for 40 years. He began the work in 1793. He did not see his first convert until 1800. When a Hindu man named Krishna Pal professed faith in Christ, Carey wrote in his journal,… Read more

  • Obey God’s Law in All of Life 

    Obey God’s Law in All of Life 

    This law, moreover, demands instant and absolute obedience, not only from all classes of Christians, but also in every sphere of human life equally. A Christian is just as much under obligation to obey God’s will in the most secular of his daily businesses as he is in his closet or at the communion table.… Read more

  • American Presbyterians Once Had Confidence in the Growth and Triumph of Christ’s Kingdom

    American Presbyterians Once Had Confidence in the Growth and Triumph of Christ’s Kingdom

    This kingdom is to endure for ever, gradually to embrace all the inhabitants of the earth, and finally the entire moral government of God in heaven and on earth. The little stone which breaks the image will become a great mountain and fill the whole earth (Dan. 2:35). This gospel of the kingdom is to… Read more

  • When American Presbyterianism Had a Backbone 

    When American Presbyterianism Had a Backbone 

    “If Christ is really king, exercising original and immediate jurisdiction over the state as really as He does over the Church, it follows necessarily that the general denial or neglect of His rightful lordship, any prevalent refusal to obey that Bible which is the law-book of His kingdom, must be followed by political and social… Read more

  • Funding Christendom and Stewarding Wealth

    Funding Christendom and Stewarding Wealth

    Funding Christendom and Stewarding Wealth This is follow up to last week’s sermon: September 4, 2022 Wisdom About Wealth: The Prosperity Gospel, the Poverty Gospel, and Kingdom Stewardship (Matthew 6:19-33) As I said in the sermon, it’s not easy to preach on money, wealth, economics, etc. I want to further unpack problems with the “poverty gospel”… Read more