I am flummoxed over much of the discussion about race going on in the evangelical world right now. There are several contributing factors to my bewildered state, not the least of which is that brothers with whom I share deep theological convictions and from whom I have learned so…
One of my longstanding concerns about American Christianity is that it tends to be more American than Christian. While it is easy for Christians to stand around and lament our decaying culture in the West I fear that in doing so, too often we secretly take comfort in the…
I’ve been preaching through the 10 Commandments and last Sunday addressed the 4th Commandment. As I was thinking about how to preach this Commandment in the weeks leading up to Sunday, I was reminded of a story Don Whitney tells about the first church he pastored. It was in…
In a previous post I made the argument that the Ten Commandments did not begin at Mt. Sinai. Today I want to go on to demonstrate that neither did they end at Mt. Calvary. Just as the Ten Commandments were not the revelation of a new standard of righteousness…
Since the beginning of my ministry as a pastor I have been committed to preaching the Bible expositionally. The main way that I do that is by working through books in the Bible verse-by-verse. Recently, in my exposition of Exodus, I have come to chapter 20, which contains the…