For years, I’ve taken myself too seriously. I’m the oldest of four kids – my three siblings supposedly watching and learning from my every step. Weight like that is hard enough. As if life had been designed to be this difficult, Dad was – and is – a pastor. Oldest son of a preacher, the [...]

R. Scott Clark, professor at Westminster Seminary California and author of the book Recovering the Reformed Confession, has a phrase called QIRE – the Quest for Illegitimate Religious Experience. By that, Dr. Clark refers to the desire to experience God outside of the “ordinary” means of grace in the preaching of the Word and the [...]

I begin this piece with a question. Could John Calvin, the (in)famous Genevan Reformer, Biblical scholar and theological powerhouse actually get a job (for lack of a better expression) in the pastorate today?   Before you answer, we’re talking about a man who preached pretty much every day across Geneva and was so dedicated to [...]

Just some thoughts…

Any written document must be interpreted if it is to be understood. The United States of America has nine highly skilled individuals whose daily task is to interpret the Constitution. They comprise the Supreme Court of the land. To interpret the Bible is a far more solemn task than to interpret the U.S. Constitution. It [...]

I like to play basketball – even though at the current time I’m still recovering from an injury and shouldn’t even be thinking of the court right now. One thing I learnt playing basketball against people who could wipe the floor with me was to not hate the player, but to hate the game (I’m [...]

I will be serialising this rather lengthy article. Here is Part 1 of this series. There is an issue which has always bothered since I embraced the Doctrines of Grace almost two years ago (August 18 to be exact). Occasionally I have touched on it but it always felt as a theoretical problem, rather than [...]

As part of my extended series on posts on Rediscovering Biblical Christianity, I revised an article I wrote at the request of my buddy S.O. about not wasting your brain and the importance of cultivating a robust theology for Christian living (some these days *cough – Emergents* will tell it’s not possible but I beg [...]

I heard about the ministry of Dr. Jones, a former professor at Westminster Theological Seminary and director of truthXchange, through some MP3s of his, looking at paganism. And  I was hooked. Fast forward to yesterday, and I was at Christian Research Net and I noted an article looked to by the Editor down there by…Dr. [...]

Kicking off a short series on “Rediscovering Biblical Christianity” with a look at some of the bunk going on in “Christianity”