I have experienced too many churches that are like chocolate Easter bunnies. The chocolate bunny looks so enticing with the shiny foil wrapping on the outside, but often when you unwrap it you find that the chocolate is waxy and the bunny is … [Continue reading]
Jesus warned us that there would be people in our churches with improper motives for being there. For example, I point you to the parable of the wheat and tares. Since the Reformation, we make a distinction between the visible church and the true … [Continue reading]
Question 27 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism asks, "In what did Christ’s humiliation consist?" The answer given is, "Christ’s humiliation consisted in being born, and that in a poor circumstance; in being subject to God’s law; … [Continue reading]
Even a casual student of church history, or history in general, will observe that every time the church has sought or obtained political power, it has gone badly for the church and the society around it. I am not aware of a single … [Continue reading]
