The following article is written in the form of a letter to an unchurched friend. It’s written for the purpose of clearly explaining the nature of the gospel and…
How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have…
One of my favorite hymns of all time is the classic, “God Moves in a Mysterious Way,” by William Cowper. Many years ago, when I first heard the lyrics…
It’s an oft quoted phrase in the history of the Reformation that Luther hatched the egg Erasmus laid. For while God used the humanistic scholar, Erasmus, to drive a…
One of the great debates in the nineteenth-century American Presbyterian church centered around Roman Catholic baptism.[1] As large numbers of people were emigrating to the United States from Roman…
When German Lutheran pastor, Martin Rinkart (1586–1649), penned the familiar hymn “Now Thank We All Our God” as a prayer to be offered before meals, he probably was not…
One of the marks of a genuine church of Jesus Christ has, for centuries, been the proper biblical discipline of those who sin and live in that sin in…
This article originally appeared at Reformation21.org on July 8, 2019. It appears here with permission. Ray Ortlund, one of the original signers of the Nashville Statement, in his book Marriage…
The Gospel Reformation Network’s 2019 pre-assembly day conference — “A Time To Stand: Conviction, Courage, and Compassion in an Age of Compromise” — was a tremendous blessing. We are…
The following article is written in the form of a letter to a young seminarian struggling with same sex attraction. While based on many similar conversations, both Thomas, and…