During this unusual season of global pandemic, government officials have shut down businesses, restricted travel, and banned gatherings of various sizes. Because of this, lawsuits have been filed and…
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…
“I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.” — Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor As preachers, we are subject to the…
The past three weeks have proved to be an unprecedented time of uncertainty for people throughout the world. Concern over the impact of the coronavirus has seized medical professionals,…
Watch Dr. Richard Phillips explain the need for the PCA to continue “to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). Print…
The novel coronavirus that precipitated our current global crisis has shaken us into a strange new world filled with many uncertainties. Collectively we are beginning to awaken to the…
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…
Being raised in a non-Christian home, I didn’t have a healthy model of a biblical pastor or church. I began ministry nearly 40 years ago and, while I had…