Category: Church
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Odds and Ends, June 2024
I wanted to give a little follow-up on my sermons on 1 Samuel 14 from the last couple of weeks: A few links I want to share: At some point, we will have conference video from the “Courageous Church, Hostile World” conference we held at TPC back in February. In the meantime, I wanted to…
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Pastoral Leadership in an Age of Wokeness
Are woke pastors committing vocational suicide? Is it enough to not be woke? Or must a pastor be explicitly anti-woke in order to remain faithful? I admit upfront I know absolutely nothing first hand about the Scott Sauls case and therefore anything I say here is strictly speculative. The charges brought against Sauls that he has been abusive and manipulative are very…
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The Greatest Show on Earth (Lord’s Day Exhortation)
This is the Lord’s service for the Lord’s people on the Lord’s Day, as we hear Lord’s Word and feast on the Lord’s Supper. Liturgy is the greatest show on earth – and that’s because it’s not a show on earth, it really takes place in the heavenly sanctuary. Mystically, spiritually, by faith, when we…
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Where Do We Fight: 2021 CREC Council Talk
WHERE DO WE FIGHT? “FIRST BATTLE” CREC COUNCIL TALK – OCTOBER 27, 2021 Video available below and HERE. I have been tasked with answering the question, “Where do we fight?” I am inclined to answer that question with a quotation. Remember Winston Churchill’s famous World War II speech? “We shall fight on the seas and oceans,…
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Chrysostom on the Church
Never separate yourself from the Church. For nothing is stronger than the Church. Your hope is the Church alone; your salvation is inside the Church only, your refuge is the Church. She is higher than the heavens, and wider than the whole earth. She never grows old, but is always full of vigor and vitality.…
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Ephesians 4:5 and the Unity of the Church
Paul’s formula for unity in Ephesians 4:5 is helpful because of its balance: there is one faith, one Lord, one baptism (+ one Eucharist) — that is to say, there is the content of the faith, the way it is lived out under Christ’s lordship, and the sacramental boundaries drawn around the church. All three…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 6): Isker Counter-Punches
My friend Andrew Isker has weighed in on the Christian nationalism debate with a response to Peter Leithart’s short statement on Christian nationalism. A few weeks ago, Larson Hicks and I interviewed Isker about his book (co-authored with Andrew Torba) on Christian nationalism. Like Isker, I also noticed the dichotomy in Leithart’s piece on a nation seeking its own good…
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2022 Ordination and Installation Sermons
Over the course of 2022, I have been honored and privileged to preach at a few ordination/installation services for some very good men in some very good churches. Here’s a recap. In April, I preached at the installation service for Matt Carpenter at Trinity Reformed in Huntsville. Trinity Reformed is a church we planted just…
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A Quick Primer on What it Means to Be Ecclesiocentric
Ecclesiocentrism is incredibly simple to understand and absolutely ubiquitous in Scripture. The church is the central and most important thing in the world and in history. That’s it — that’s the fundamental claim. Ecclesiocentrism can be found on almost every page of the Bible. Some examples: These paragraphs from Doug Wilson’s post this week is…
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