June 17, 2026June 17, 2026Apostasy, Biblical Instruction, Christian Theology, Covenant Keeping, Exhortation, Gospel, Pastoral Counsel, Repentance Pastoral Counsel for Christians Who Fear They Have Committed The Unpardonable Sin The most frequently asked question from my students throughout my pastoral/teaching ministry is a version of one someone recently asked me after […]
June 23, 2025June 23, 2025Biblical Instruction, Christian Theology, Understanding the Times When Fellow Christians Disagree Fellow Christians, Let us not yield to the evil culture that surrounds us. Let us not turn to insulting one another over […]
February 21, 2025February 22, 2025Biblical Instruction, Biblical Theology, Correcting Misconstruals, Covenant Keeping, Exhortation, New Testament, New Testament Use of the Old Testament, Old Testament The Gospel Announces God’s Last Day Verdict for All Who Believe in Jesus Christ: Justified and Sins Forgiven In December 2021, I published four articles responding to Harrison Perkins’s criticism of my chapter, “Covenantal Life with God from Eden to […]
September 17, 2023March 15, 2025Biblical Instruction, Biblical Theology, New Testament, New Testament Use of the Old Testament, Old Testament, Personal Backstory, Personal Reflection The Bible is a Unified Unfolding Mystery Drama (Part 1) Simultaneously Challenging and Cherishing My Theological Heritage All our individual doing of theology is autobiographical, reflecting changes, development, and progress. I was […]
August 11, 2022December 20, 2022Biblical Instruction, Biblical Theology, Exhortation, Gospel, Government, New Testament, Politics, Preaching, Repentance Preach the Word, Correct, Rebuke, Encourage When I was a college student, in a course on ethics or philosophy some fellow students naively declared, “You can’t legislate morality!” […]
July 26, 2022July 26, 2022Biblical Instruction, Correcting Misconstruals, Creation, Culture, Exhortation, New Testament, Worldview The Christian Knows that it is Best to Have Gradations or Levels among Citizens in any Society Preview in new tab Here are some thoughts from Jonathan Edwards Sermon 7 contained in Charity and Its Fruits and titled “The Spirit of […]
July 21, 2022February 2, 2023Baptism, Biblical Instruction, Christian Family - Home Christian Parenting Is Evangelistic Introduction For several months I have been wanting to write this blog entry, but many activities kept intruding. A few weeks ago, […]
July 19, 2022July 21, 2022Biblical Instruction, Culture, Worldview Understanding the Times Here is the first of three presentations I made almost two years ago. Even since then, what massive deterioration of the culture […]
July 7, 2022July 9, 2022Announcements, Biblical Instruction, Biblical Theology, Creation, Evolution, Old Testament, Worldview The Creator’s Own Realistic Account of Creation I had intended to post a different blog entry this week. However, due to the fortuitous convergence of matters completely outside my […]
June 14, 2022June 16, 2022Biblical Instruction, Exhortation Whom Do You Suppose Became the Widow’s Carriage Driver? Today, June 14, 2022, John Stonestreet and Timothy Padgett published “How Far is Too Far, and Other Questions the Church Must Answer.” […]