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

NOTE:  I have invited the contributions of Stu Reimer to write in this space on the issues of marriage and family. If you follow CRC at all you will know Stu to be my frequent substitute in the pulpit and I am looking forward to his work as my substitute from time to time in this space. Expect his blogs to appear every 6 weeks or so. Stu is no expert on the things on which I have asked him to write (Just ask his wife and children), but he is a committed reformed Christian and

On Sunday I spoke about my greatest fear for my ministry and for our church -- Assumed Evangelicalism, or to put it in the vernacular, assuming the gospel. Or to put it into business terms, mission drift. Or to put it in Pauline terms, making that which is of first importance, anything other than that. Here is the definition of Assumed Evangelicalism as defined by David Gibson, the author who originated the term. Assumed Evangelicalism believes and signs up to the gospel. It

In Acts 17 we see an excellent strategy for gospel-sharing so that we can fulfill our mandate to be Christ’s witnesses everywhere we go.

“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”

CRT forces us to choose between the witness of Scripture and the cultural observations and philosophies upon which they are built.

The issues of politics, COVID protocols, and government regulations need addressing within the parameters of biblical revelation.

Should we do communion in our homes as individuals or families? I believe the answer is no.

Dealing with the difficult issue of when young people should be baptized.

Baptism is an ordinance given to the church as a sign of the New Covenant to be received by the believer in obedience to Christ.

I want to take the opportunity to explain baptism a little bit and the reason why it is so important to individuals and the church.

Let me remind you of where we have come now that we are 5 blogs into this series. In my previous blogs, I outlined why a dispensational...

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Once again it has been far too long between blogs. Once again, I apologize to all of you who have been waiting. Due to the distance...

It has been a while since I have written a blog in this series. I apologize. I have been working extensively on the “Hearing God?”...

Remember Siegfried and Roy? For my younger readers, probably not. They were big cat trainers who played to sold-out shows in Las Vegas...

I hope that by now, three blogs into this series, you have come to an understanding of what a disciple is, why the church and fellow...