If from the pulpit you only hear, week after week, about your union with Christ, and every passage of scripture that is preached culminates with “and Christ succeeded where you failed” or “and Christ did what you and I could never do” or “therefore we thank God for our union with Christ,” then you have a pastor feeding you milk from a big-boy sized rubber nipple.

In this episode, we continue our series by looking at God's mercy defined, developed, and delivered (Luke 1:50-54; 2 Corinthians 1:3-5; Lamentations 3:22-24).

The confession articulates – in no uncertain terms – that salvation is within God’s covenant, yet it is only a possibility, not a guarantee. One way Jesus articulated this truth was by his parable of the wheat and the tares (Matthew 13:24-43).

Here's an update on what's been happening in my life and an explanation - somewhat - as to where I've been.

Holiness indeed characterizes the church and God put church discipline in place not to ostracize his children, but rather to protect the holiness of his Bride, something any husband or wife can appreciate.

Bunyan is as theologically uncompromising as the finest Strict Baptist, but he chose to live by love.

Let us remember that the wicked only ever temporarily succeed. The righteous only ever temporarily fail.

If God chooses those who are saved, then why evangelize?

In his request for the word of truth to persist in his mouth, David was in fact asking that his heart would be continually filled with faith.

How often do the saints of God feel ill equipped to answer those who come against our Lord? How quickly do we become dismayed with feelings of inadequacy, incompetence, and weakness that overcome us when we are opposed by infidels? This is an all-to-often occurrence for the redeemed, but it ought not be.

Biblical sympathy is the ability (not the necessity) to feel what someone else feels as well as the ability to understand how others feel. It is the capacity to feel another person’s feelings, thoughts, or attitudes vicariously, as a distinct and separate person, coming alongside a sufferer for their help and betterment.

A confession without action is of little use. One way we can realize our confession is by meditating on the wonderful benefits that the resurrection bestows upon believers and worshipping God for those benefits.

In this episode, we go over Q103 of the Westminster Larger Catechism. We discuss idolatry and what it means to have no other gods before Jesus Christ.

Three things may give us boldness in prayer. We have a Father to pray to, and the Spirit to help us pray, and an Advocate to present our prayers.

-Thomas Watson

All heresies with respect to the Trinity may be reduced to the one great heresy of mixing the eternal and the temporal.

— Cornelius Van Til

In this episode, we continue examining the WLC Q7 by studying God's incomprehensibility and omnipresence (1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 139:1-13).

David does not seek these mercies out for others, but for himself only. No man can redeem another, we can only beseech the Lord on their behalf. But, we can certainly ensure that we are united to Christ

A thorough understanding of a list’s contents helps the modern reader apply the immutable doctrines of the text by emboldening the major thrust of the author’s intentions.

The Lord has been at work in my life and has been teaching me many things, of which I hope to share a small bit with you here. God is always at work, really, even when we aren’t aware of it. Over the last bit of my life, however, I have been afforded the kindness of being more aware of it than normal.