Imagine yourself as a Jewish teacher in first-century Palestine. A foreign empire rules over you and your land. A rival group, centered on the famous rabbi Jesus of Nazareth, is spreading rapidly even though he was condemned for blasphemy by Jewish leaders and executed by the Romans. The greatest headscratcher eventually happens to be the […]

Modern Evangelical Pharisees In my previous article, “When Repentance Becomes Costly,” I described a great problem in the American Evangelical Church. There is a need for pastoral repentance, but it has been absent in large measure. While the Lord has raised up many good shepherds, there is indeed an entire class that has disqualified themselves, […]

The Presbyterian Church in America is the second-largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States. As with all conservative Presbyterian denominations, it is experiencing differences over political and social views, especially those centering on the term “Christian Nationalism” and what it may or may not represent. At the General Assembly last June, the PCA approved Overture […]

Defining Terms As our culture has delved deeper and deeper into sexual depravity disguised as sexual liberation, many “new” heresies have arisen as a result. I put quotation marks around new because, while these specific claims have never been made before, they manage to fall under ancient heresies that have been around for over a […]