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...

NOTE: This will be the last blog until May. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss one. The liberalism of Machen’s time -- the early...

We’ve covered a fair bit of territory in our four previous blogs covering forgiveness. Crucially, we have seen that forgiveness is really...

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...