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  • Church Discipline Questionnaire

    Church Discipline Questionnaire

    Years ago, in 2008 to be specific, when I was still fairly new to being a solo pastor, a seminary student asked me to participate in a project he was doing. He wanted to compile views and practices from a variety of churches regarding church discipline and conflict resolution. I came across this document in… Read more

  • Confession of Sin

    Confession of Sin

    In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, this church opens wide her doors and offers welcome to all who are spiritually weak and seek rest; to all who mourn and long for comfort; to all who struggle and desire victory; to all who sin and need the Savior; to all who are strangers and want fellowship; to all who hunger and… Read more

  • Jesus and the Blessed Man

    Jesus and the Blessed Man

    This essay presupposes and builds upon my sermon on Psalms 127-128, available here. The first part of the sermon focused on the man in these two psalms and that’s what I want to look at further here. If we want to know what it means to be a blessed man, perhaps we need to start with… Read more

  • A Short Note on “Patriarchy”: Reclaiming Biblical Terminology

    A Short Note on “Patriarchy”: Reclaiming Biblical Terminology

    The term “patriarchy” is controversial. I used to be opposed to the term “patriarchy” and was settled on the term “complementarianism” to describe the relationship of the sexes. I was especially frustrated that many who called themselves “patriarchal” seemed to have weird “hyper-patriarchal” views. Perhaps that is still the case in some quarters. But a… Read more

  • A Short Note on Headship

    A Short Note on Headship

    A man is the head of the household. To put it another way, the man is the patriarch of his home. He has responsibility for his home, as well as authority over his home. Today, there are some in “complementarian” circles who seek to limit a man’s headship to his wife, and then claim the… Read more

  • The TPC Baptismal Liturgy

    The TPC Baptismal Liturgy

    This is an email I send out to our congregation occasionally to instruct them about our practice of infant baptism — not just why we baptize infants, but also why we baptize the way we do, why we use the liturgy we do, etc. This is a good opportunity for me to remind you where… Read more