Benjamin Keach summarized the positive obligations in terms of two broad categories: relations with the pastor and with one another. To the pastor each member owes 8 things: (1) prayer, (2) ‘reverential esteem’, (3) submission, (4)...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The United States Government has done it again! With the recent Supreme Court validation of ObamaCare, it has usurped the role of individual citizens to care for themselves and will punish them through taxation if they try. The “Land of the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Crickets can be really loud. In my living room as I am writing this, an exemplary member of the Orthoptera Acheta Domesticus family has made its way into my house. The chirping fills the living room with sound. With its full voice or wing scrapers...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What if we find a field full of weeds? Writing in 1655, Phillip Goodwin speaks about how ministers should respond when they find weeds in the church. In his book Family Religion Revived, Goodwin writes: If a tree in an orchard that hath born many...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God has organized His people so that their sanctification can move forward regardless of what everyone else is doing. This is facilitated by how He has made local churches free to obey the Lord, regardless of what other churches might be doing....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
John Calvin wrote to King Edward the Sixth, presenting him the commentary on the book of Isaiah at the time that Calvin was fighting against the excesses of the Roman Catholic Church, ...when we repair the ruins of the Church, we give our labours...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Iain Murray has written a book, Evangelicalism Divided, where he unpacks the demise of evangelicalism. He states that evangelicals have orthodox beliefs, but they seek success from worldly practices. He writes: It is that evangelicals, while...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Justin Taylor's Blog quotes an important comment from J. I. Packer on the lust for newness - which in my view is the source of many problems in modern church life. the newer is the truer,only what is recent is decent,every shift of ground is a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"As the saving doctrine of Christ is the soul of the church, so discipline forms ligaments which connect the members together, and keep each in its proper place. Whoever, therefore, either desire the abolition of all discipline, or obstruct its...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THIS JUST IN: Local church life isn’t for the faint of heart. There are people in those churches, and that means challenges for everyone who dares to engage in a meaningful way. That is as much a reality as gravity. What will we do with this...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
