“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God,” Psalm 90:2. This eternity is no less applicable to the Son (Ephesians 3:11) or the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 9:14) than it is to the Father! This is a triune affirmation we can make. This becomes most evident in Scripture as we study the Son.     1 John opens wit...  Read More

I recently listened to a number of sermons in John’s Gospel by Pastor Mark Dever while traveling here to Afghanistan. If you’ve not had the benefit of this man’s teaching I’d like to cordially invite you to Google the name and download away. As I was listening to him I noticed something lacking in my own teaching. It is something sadly lacking in many places. It was the way he read the text he was...  Read More

“You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore,” Psalm 16:11.     David wrote this a very long time ago. He is experiencing the fullness of it right now as you read this. For the sanctifying, there is nothing in this universe more desirable than righteousness before God. I want to talk about this a little bit and how it’s true ...  Read More

We live in a current church climate that has a certain allergy against any concept of the word hate. Perhaps a lot of it comes from a proper observation of the fact that hate is often dangerous and all-consuming. We tend to see all hatred as negative or perhaps even evil, but it’s not. What do you think? Is there still, as there was in the days the writer of Ecclesiastes lived, “A time to hate.”? ...  Read More

 In 1 Samuel 7:12, Samuel the prophet set up a stone and named it “Ebenezer” between Mizpah and Shen. The name means a, “Stone of help.” It was a visual reminder of God’s faithfulness to Israel. Each time those who knew what it meant passed by it they could see it and be reminded, perhaps even transported back to the day they planted it like a song, to recall some work of God. Samuel is not at all...  Read More

In all that we study and meditate on regarding the life to come I think I’ve been reminded this week of something that, although difficult to imagine how, is easy to overlook or marginalize, and that’s life itself as we are currently to live it.     God has given us this world in its beauty. We know how Scripture repeats the refrain that it was “good” all throughout its first week. Sin has since r...  Read More