A member of the congregation asks: “I have a relative that got re-baptized. I thought once you are baptized as a baby in front of God and His people, that is it?” This is a great question, but unfortunately, my answer can do nothing to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Last week I began a series of posts about my thoughts regarding English Bible translations (you can read that here). I have been thinking and studying a lot lately over the state of English Bible translations. Some of the questions I’ve been...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I have been studying and researching the issue of English Bible translations lately, and I want to take the time to lay out some of the thoughts that have been going through my mind of late. I want to emphasize that these are my thoughts. What I...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
This is a good question and one that seems to come up every four years around election time. I think in order to answer this question, we need to decouple climate change the environmental issue from climate change the political issue. By all...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I was recently asked by a member of the congregation my stance on WWJD (“What Would Jesus Do?”). Before I get too deep into this issue, a little context is in order. The church in which I serve is a member church in the Reformed Church...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
This past week saw the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Badger-Ginsburg (commonly referred to as “RBG”). Justice Ginsburg died last Friday, September 18, 2020 from a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. She was...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
2 Timothy 4:3–4 (NKJV): For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I wasn’t in the pulpit this past Sunday, so there is no sermon reflections this week. However, I did want to take a moment to discuss how difficult it is sometimes—particularly in our current cultural and political environment—to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
John 1:12–13 (ESV): But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. Does it ever seem to you...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The most important question any of us can answer is “Who is Jesus?” The answer to this question literally spells the difference between (eternal) life and (eternal) death. For the vast majority of the history of Christianity, the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
