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A summary and application of a story told by Iain Murray in his fine book, The Puritan Hope: George Whitefield was once among a group of pastors and they were discussing the burdens of ministry, how consoling it was to consider that this life would soon be over, and how glorious it would be when…

Some Christians use the motif of Israel’s exile to justify why Christians should not have (or seek) political power and cultural influence. We live in Babylon, so we cannot expect very much transformation of the world around us. We “lose down here,” as the saying goes. There’s no need to fight a “culture war” or…

I wrote this elsewhere as a footnote in another essay (http://trinity-pres.net/essays/obergefellandamericaswarongod.pdf), but since it islikely to get overlooked, I have pulled it out and turned it into itsown short paper for those who might be interested. The debatebetween Doug Wilson and Jim Jordan over regeneration pits two menwhom I respect and from whom I have…

Christian Nationalism is not an historical oddity. It’s been the historical norm for most of church history for most of the church. A nation that thinks it can be areligious, that thinks it can divorce religion from culture and politics, is the historical oddity. Secularism is the historical oddity. An atheistic public square has never…

If speech is violence, then violence is a justified response to speech.  — We are now in polarized world. C. S. Lewis explained what is happening in our culture: “If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family—anything you like—at a given point in its history, you always find that there was…

Classical liberalism, at least the America version of it, was very illiberal by the standards of modern liberalism. If America was founded as a classically liberal nation, consider all the evidence of our Christian founding: *The Mayflower Compact was explicitly Christian in character and content * 75% of those who declared independence were of Puritan…

[This is a portion of an email that went out to the TPC congregation on 10/1/25.] TPC family, This is a longer than usual “updates” email, but there are several essential items to share this week: First, make plans to attend the congregational meeting after worship on October 19. This might be the most important congregational meeting we…

This is sermon follow up from my sermon from August 13, 2023: In the sermon on Daniel 6, I mentioned that Daniel’s civil disobedience was fully justified and serves as an example of interposition. The doctrine of interposition teaches that a lesser civil magistrate can stand up to the tyranny of a higher civil magistrate…