David Garner

The following post is part of our ‘Principles of Reformation’ series. For the first post in the series, please click here. The church is an offspring of Scripture. The…

John Calvin, in his last will and testament, asserts, “I have no other defence or refuge for salvation than His gratuitous adoption, on which my salvation depends.”[1] Surely there…

Starting with the title itself, there is much to like about the Rev. Dr. Greg Johnson’s book, The World According to God (InterVarsity, 2002). Now, nearly 20 years later,…

Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of Dr. Garner’s article. Part 1 may  be accessed here.  The frequent and urgent biblical cries to sobriety expose the danger of the…

God’s speech carries final authority. That is only right. He is, after all, God. His gravitas weighs in every word on every page of his Word, where he calls us…

Familiarity. Preachers and psychologists warn us about it, spouses fall prey to its tantalizing trap, and children get blindly sucked into its vortex of ingratitude. So sweet and so…