Machen on the Virgin Birth

I got a bunch of new books tonight in the mail tonight, mostly commentaries and other books I’ll be using for my ministry here.  One that I threw in out of interest was Gresham Machen’s...

The True Older Brother

We’re going through a series on Sunday mornings based on Tim Keller’s book The Prodigal God.  We’re learning from Jesus’ parable in Luke 15:11-32 that breaking the rules isn’t the only way to be alienated...

California Bound

In the midst of our busy packing up and moving, I haven’t had the chance to announce this on my blog yet, but Esther and I are moving to Sierra Madre, California, where I will...

Cleverness and Christ

This is short and simple, but man – something to think about every single time you preach: “No man can bear witness to Christ and to himself at the same time.  No man can give...

Food for Thought

“If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did....

The Logic of Penal Substitution

On the bus back from NYC I read the second essay of J.I. Packer published in In My Place Condemned He Stood, called “What did the Cross Acheive?  The Logic of Penal Substitution,” originally an...

Here is your God

New York City

Esther and I spent Labor Day weekend in New York Cit and had a fantastic time.  We got in early Saturday afternoon and did the common tourist’s first step of going to the top of...

Making Jesus look good