Tag: christianity
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So You Want to be a Pastor?
[This is from October 2024.] A young man the other day told me he wanted to be a pastor and asked me what advice I had for him. Here’s a condensed version of what I passed along:
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Made for Glory: Understanding Your Life’s Quest (Romans 2:1-16) – Sermon Transcript from September 14, 2025
Made for Glory: Understanding Your Life’s Quest (Romans 2:1-16) September 14, 2025 What is life all about?What is the meaning of life—especially for us as Christians? What is the purpose of life? What are we supposed to be doing and giving ourselves to in the time we have here on earth?The purpose of life is…
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Interview with 1819 News: Pastoral Courage
[This is a transcript of an interview I did with 1819News on courage in early August of 2025. I have highlighted the most important parts. It’s a rough transcription, only lightly edited, but still pretty readable.] Interviewer: What was your church’s COVID response like? How did your church display courage in that period? As soon…
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The Double Archetype of True Masculinity: Every Christian Man a Monk and a Knight
Medieval Christianity was defined by two types of characters, the knight and the monk. We need both types of men – in fact, every Christian man needs to balance monkery and knighthood in his own life. Monks were men of self-denial and sacrifice. They focused on developing the inner world of personal spirituality and self-discipline.…
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Servant-Leadership or Mission-Service? Why the Servant-Leadership Concept Needs to Die
Jesus was not a servant-leader. He certainly served others, but he did not take orders from those under his command. His course of action was not determined by other people, but by dogged fidelity to his assigned mission. He did not run around trying to make everyone happy; sometimes he even made them angry. He…
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Trinity Classical Academy
[This is a slightly modified version of an email sent out to my congregation a couple weeks ago.] TPC family, Early on in my ministry, an older pastor told me, “The wheels of Presbyterianism grind slowly, but they do grind.” We’ve been talking and praying about starting a classical Christian school and building a sanctuary…
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Who Are You To Tell Me to Question Authority?!
The “question everything” approach to life is definitely popular right now, which is not a surprise given that we live in a time of crisis. Our historically trusted authorities and institutions have let us down. There is a crisis of competency in many fields; our experts are short on expertise and our elites are not…
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Quotebook #8
“The proposition that the United States of America are a Christian and Protestant nation, is not so much the assertion of a principle as the statement of a fact.” -Charles Hodge — Charles Hodge on the limits of using natural law with the natural man: “The experience of ages proves that the world by wisdom…
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The Principle of Covenant Inclusion: Covenant Children as Participants in the Sacramental Life of the Church
The inclusion of children in the sacramental life of the covenant community is no minor theme in Scripture. Again and again, we see that God includes the youngest children in the rites and rituals of the church. Children are included when the people of God gather. Children of believers are counted and treated as members…
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Jesus > Angels (Hebrews 1)
Hebrews 1:4-14 quotes 7 OT texts to show that Jesus is superior to the angels (6 are psalms, 1 is from Deuteronomy). This may seem like a strange argument to make. But it actually fits well into the overall theme of Hebrews, which is to show Jesus is superior to every facet of the old…
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