I’m getting old. As I do I have less of life ahead of me to look forward to, and more of life behind me to look back upon. This creates a potential problem. Looking back can be a good thing -- recalling stories and experiences that bring joy -- but it can also be a bad thing -- recalling stories and experiences that bring regret. Regret is a powerful emotional and intellectual prison which binds us to the ‘what-if’s’ that our imagination creates as it looks backwards over the

C. S. Lewis once quipped, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it but because by it, I see everything else.” It’s typical wit from Lewis but within this short repartee a very important truth emerges. It is one thing to believe that the sun has risen; it is a completely different thing to live by the light that it gives. The specific point Lewis was making in his article, “Is Theology Poetry?”, was that we know the truth of Chr

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

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

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

Probably not. So I’m going to fill you in. And while I do so I hope to give you a bit of insight into the yearly schedule I keep and why...

After a month of rest, preparation, and renewed focus I am back! And after a summer of the same for the church as a whole we are back as...

A few weeks ago I preached on Ephesians 6:1-4, which spoke to children regarding how they should obey and honour their parents and to...

This past Sunday we looked at Ephesians 6:1-4. We heard Paul speak to both children and parents regarding their roles in the family. We...

Since we are in Ephesians 5-6 in our CRC sermon schedule, I thought we would take a look at two books, one related to marriage, which we...

Since we are in Ephesians 5-6 I thought we would take a look at two books over the next two weeks. One on marriage, the other on family....

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...

At CRC we are nearing the end of our look at the Epistle to the Ephesians. We find ourselves, at the moment, right in the middle of...

The following information comes from a short blog on reconciliation that you can find here . It is such good information that instead of...

God is love. I don’t think there is a more universally held belief about the Christian God than that statement. Things go massively off...

We have mentioned throughout our look at forgiveness and reconciliation that the whole point of both is for the spiritual maturity of all...

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...

In 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 Paul speaks about reconciliation in its gospel context. What he does in this chapter is to remind us first that...

This is how the conversations usually progress after I mention to someone that I am a pastor… Someone: Where are you a Pastor? Me:...

We previously spent 5 blogs speaking about the nature and need for us to be forgiving people; to have the gospel cultivate a disposition...