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  • Election Day Notes: Cast Your Vote and Move on with Your Life

    Election Day Notes: Cast Your Vote and Move on with Your Life

    In case no one has told you, we have election coming up next Tuesday. Some people think it’s a pretty big deal, so here are my pastoral guidelines for Christian citizens this time around. First, Jesus is Lord. That is our whole political confession. Obviously, the implications of Christ’s lordship have to be worked out,… Read more

  • Aiming at Shalom

    Aiming at Shalom

    THE CHURCH’S MISSION OF JUSTICE AND MERCY (This is an older article, originally published at Theologia.org in 2004.) Charles Spurgeon once quipped, “If you give a man the gospel, wrap it in a sandwich.  And if you give a man a sandwich, wrap it in the gospel.”  With those words, the great Baptist preacher captured… Read more

  • Discipleship and the Visible Church

    Discipleship and the Visible Church

    This is an old article article, being republished for the blog. Discipleship is a vital dimension of the church’s life.  The church’s motherly, nurturing role as discipler is indispensable.  Indeed the church is the school of discipleship.  We are enrolled in her school in baptism, educated in the word by her pastors and teachers, and… Read more

  • From Public Church to Private Christian

    From Public Church to Private Christian

    This is an old article article, being republished for the blog. It is critical for the church to understand the broader social trends that have undermined her existence as a public and visible community if she is going to act and react in appropriately biblical ways in our (post)modern situation.  The progressive privatizing of religion… Read more

  • Orphan Care as a Christian Calling

    Orphan Care as a Christian Calling

    This is an old article article, being republished for the blog. How does one become part of a family one was not born into? Adoption. One of the central privileges of the gospel is our adoption into the family of God. We are not children of God by nature; rather, we are by nature children… Read more

  • Plucking and Cutting — An Examination of Matthew 5:27-32

    Plucking and Cutting — An Examination of Matthew 5:27-32

    This is an old article article, being republished for the blog. While sex happens in private, it has public implications and so biblical law has quite a bit to say about it. We cannot keep God’s law out of our bedrooms. But neither can we keep God’s law out of our hearts. And so the Scripture… Read more