Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? –Epicurus (341-270 B.C.).     It’s a question that needs answering in every generation. This is not my whole answer. I could not possibly list all the suffering that’...  Read More

      “I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart,” Psalm 40:8. Can you say this of yourself, dear reader? When no one’s looking? When you’re not in church, when your Christian friend(s) isn’t/aren’t around, when you’re sitting on your toilet and no one else (hopefully) is there, can you say this of your heart at times with delight?     My heart has been changed, Ezekiel ...  Read More

     There’s a lesson that’s been of real comfort to me during this past year that I hope will be of comfort to you as well. It was first brought to my attention as I studied Corinthians some time ago and then applied it to my life. The lesson is that the church is to be always reforming. Semper Reformanda! As you look around the visible church today there is much to grieve over. It was never any ...  Read More

     To the saints in Philippi Paul wrote of his, “Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ,” Philippians 1:6. Many people have asked, even recently, about what a Christian does with his or her sin after they’re born again. They have somehow come to see the gospel of the Lord as a mere fresh start that they can mess...  Read More

 There is no such thing as a Christian who doesn’t believe that Jesus is God. Trinity is essential. Last weekend was a weekend of cults or, at the very least, semi-cults for me. I was ordained the privilege to speak of Christ with a Seventh Day Adventist on Thursday, a Mormon on Friday and some Jehovah’s Witnesses on Saturday. Both Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW) have nothing to do with God a...  Read More

     God wants contrite people. Scripture says, “…On this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word,” Isaiah 66:2. Contrition is a healthy, reverential fear bred by wisdom in those who know and love God. The Hebrew word nakeh that’s translated as “Contrite” here in the NKJV is not a very common OT word. Depending on which Bible version you use it onl...  Read More