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  • Wisdom Interview

    Wisdom Interview

    A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of doing a podcast interview with my good friend Larson Hicks on the topic of wisdom. You can find the interview here: Read more

  • When it Comes to Lent, Be a Ninevite, Not a Pharisee

    When it Comes to Lent, Be a Ninevite, Not a Pharisee

    God’s people have many ways of expressing godly grief over our own sin or over tragedies we endure in this fallen world. Here are a few examples. From 2 Samuel 13: [19] And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand on her head… Read more

  • Canadian Bill C-4

    Canadian Bill C-4

    This is an email I sent to my congregation this week, concerning Canadian bill C-4, which essentially makes the Christian faith illegal in Canada. TPC family, Last Sunday, Canadian bill C-4 forbidding “conversion therapy” for homosexuals and transgenders was mentioned in Sunday School, the opening exhortation, and the pastoral prayer. I wanted to follow up… Read more

  • “He Descended Into Hell”: Understanding a Key Phrase in the Apostles Creed

    “He Descended Into Hell”: Understanding a Key Phrase in the Apostles Creed

    The phrase “descended into hell” from the Apostles Creed has been controversial at times in church history. Not even the Reformers agreed amongst themselves what it meant. Should we keep this phrase in the Creed — especially since not every early version of the Creed included it? What did the framers of the Creed mean by it? What should we mean by it when… Read more

  • An Email to an Egalitarian Critic (2011)

    An Email to an Egalitarian Critic (2011)

    This is an email I wrote in October 2011. I came across it as I was going through some old files and realized it might be useful to make it public. I am turning it into a blog post here because the issues I was responding to are still very relevant. I have removed personal… Read more

  • The Church in Three Dimensions

    The Church in Three Dimensions

    These are lecture notes from a talk I gave at the Auburn Avenue Pastor’s Conference in 2006, but I believe they are more relevant now than when I first delivered them. I argue that when we consider the church’s relationship with culture, we must remember it is a dynamic and fluid, not fixed and static,… Read more