Bring the Books

When it comes to the life and teachings of John Calvin, of course there is no shortage of books. This means that all readers inevitably have...

My own relationship with the Westminster Standards is one of a long sweeping love affair. I grew up in the Nazarene church and was exposed...

Almost universally 2016 seems to be regarded by many in the broader culture as a very bad year. There were shootings and terrorists. There ...

It is customary, at the end of the year, for people to list their ten favorite albums that were released in the previous year. I enjoy thi...

It is human for us to want to make sense out of the worst of human actions. Almost every time there is a public shooting, pundits begin to...

It would be difficult to argue that June was a good month for Orlando, Florida. From the horrible and nearly unimaginable evil committed b...

[Updated 7/8/16] (*) = Essential Posts. Earlier today I found myself trying to explain to a friend what has been happening in the Reforme...

Dear Arryn, Five years ago when we were convinced of God’s call you agreed gladly and willingly to move to Jackson. You packed up all of...

I appreciate much of what Matthew Tuininga has to write and have read his work on the doctrine of the Two Kingdoms for years. His most rec...

I have been eager to read Richard Barcellos’ book The Lord’s Supper as a Means of Grace: More Than a Memory for a number of years. It’s a...

You’ve probably never played a game like That Dragon, Cancer . In fact, it definitely feels denigrating to call it a “game.” It’s really d...

I don’t know about the rest of you, but it’s honestly been a tough summer. For me, it started with the news of high profile pastors (some ...

In the first three parts of this series we not only explored the centrality of Christian Liberty to the debates and discussions that led to ...

In the prior two posts we considered the importance of Christian Liberty to the division of the OPC in 1937. In this post we will focus on t...

In the first part of this series of blog posts we talked about the environment from which the OPC emerged. We concluded by surmising that th...