Brett McCracken may be a new name to some of you but he has been writing books and articles for the Gospel Coalition, where he is the senior editor and director of communications, for some time. This book is, in fact, almost 10 years old. But that does not make it irrelevant. In fact, what he speaks about has been and will continue to be an issue within the church until Christ comes again -- the local church is a necessary, though not perfect, and often uncomfortable place to

Mental health issues have become part of the zeitgeist of our culture. We are bombarded with labels, diagnoses, and drugs and therapies to respond to them. Sadly too many Christians are too quick to embrace secular culture and secular brain science without filtering what they are being told through the truth of God’s word. Thankfully there are many very good resources from a Reformed perspective which will help us sort out the ever-present mental health obsession of our Weste

In a future episode of the Here I Sit Podcast I will be diving into the much neglected but exceedingly important doctrine of Union with Christ. It is a foundational doctrine for understanding how we were saved, how we are saved, how we will be saved, and thus it offers us deep insight into how we are to live in light of being saved. But for now I offer a review of a short, sweet, and excellent book by Sinclair Ferguson on the topic entitled, Union with Christ: The Blessings o

Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe by Voddie Baucham Jr. (Salem Books, 2021) Reviewed...

Reviewed September 2022 Rebecca McLaughlin grew up in England and earned her PhD in Renaissance Literature from Cambridge and a degree in...

REVIEW: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman