Of the many complexities involving the church and homosexuality, one of the most difficult is how the former should speak of the latter. Even for those Christians who agree that homosexuality is cont...
Faith is a humble confidence that Christ can do whatever he wills and will do whatever he promises. Which means that if we are people of faith we will ask Christ to do more than we dare to think poss...
This piece has appeared on Memorial Day before, but I thought it was worth posting again. ******* Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, was instituted to honor Union soldiers who died in th...
In Ephesians 6:4, God tells fathers (though I think the application is fair for both parents) to raise children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. He also warns against provoking our chil...
Yesterday we looked at how to begin at your new church. But sometimes the harder move is leaving your old church. I don’t want to give advice on when to leave a church. Let’s assume the r...
Over ten years in pastoral ministry I’ve seen many new people come to church and I’ve seen a few long-time members leave our church. Some make these moves better than others. While there ...
Daniel R. Hyde, Jesus Loves the Little Children: Why We Baptize Children (Reformed Fellowship, 2012). This is an intelligent, gracious, and careful explanation for why Christians ought to have their ...
Recently I learned something about parenting from a stand-up comedian. I was listening to this bit about children from Brian Regan and around the 1:35 mark he tells the story about his son flinging a...
A few links that may be of interest: 1. Our church will be relocating later this year. This is a tremendous answer to prayer and the culmination of years of effort. We are purchasing an existing chur...
We are looking for a Director of Operations. The deadline to apply is Monday. If you or someone you know is interested in applying you can get more information here.
God uses men to proclaim his gospel because he gets glory by unveiling treasures from jars of clay. But the fact that God has chosen to use such an array of fallible, diverse preachers to communicate...
The topic is sanctification. Here’s what Scott Anderson writes about the event: We invite you to join us for our 2012 National Conference, September 28 – 30 in Minneapolis. The theme of t...
J.I. Packer Any degree of skepticism about the portrait of Christ, the promises of God, the principles of godliness, and the power of the Holy Spirit, as biblically presented, has the effect of ensla...
On Tuesday afternoon, CNN ran an article on its Belief Blog by Catholic priest (sort of) Daniel Helminiak entitled “My Take: What the Bible really says about homosexuality.” The art...
In June 2009 the RCA General Synod approved the adoption of the Belhar Confession as our fourth confessional standard (a move later ratified by more than 2/3 of the classes). I was not in favor of Be...
Many Christians see the church world in black and white. You have liberals on one side–they are the bad guys who doubt the resurrection and don’t believe in the Bible. And on the other si...
You can download the app here. Thanks to Subsplash for doing a great job with the app and to Barry Peterson from our church for spearheading the project. Here’s the description of what the app ...
I don’t know if these qualify as humor, but they are fascinating. And the badminton intensity is impressive. HT: Zach Nielsen HT: Stephen Altrogge
John Calvin commenting on 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8: A mother nursing her infant shows nothing of power or dignity. . . [but] a mother in nursing her children manifests a certain rare and wonderful affec...
This country loves Mother’s Day. We love to honor moms and get flowers. We love to take her out for dinner and make her stand up in church. Americans are the people of motherhood and apple pie....
Yesterday, to no one’s surprise, President Obama revealed in an interview that after some “evolution” he has “concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahe...
Monday – I’m so glad it’s my day off. Yesterday’s sermon was terrible. Maybe this week will be better. Tuesday AM - I better get some emails done and get the blog lined ...
We have an employment opportunity at University Reformed Church. If you are interested in this position, please submit an application and resume by May 21. 1. Description of Position The Director of ...
Here is a verse that caught my attention yesterday: “With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel” (2 Cor. 8:18). There are man...
The handle is @RevKevDeYoung.
In honor of a (belated) Happy Star Wars Day (“May the Fourth be with you”) here are a few clips to enjoy:
Which poses the bigger risk of idolatry–a high view of the Bible that sees Jesus submitting to the Scriptures or a low view of Scripture that sees Jesus standing apart from the Scriptures? Some...
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