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There is no end of opinions regarding “the” biblical model of leadership. There is the leader as CEO, servant, shepherd, visionary, teacher, discipler, counselor, chaplain… and to make matters worse, most make...

I have come to think that the best way to describe myself is as a latter-day catechist.— J. I. Packer1 A Latter-Day Catechist One of the great privileges of my life has been to collaborate with the Rever...

Be Aware of Evil One of the most common ways that Jesus was addressed was “teacher,” and so he was.1 Indeed he endorsed “teacher” as a self-designation in John 13:13 during the Upper Room discourse: “You ca...

The Words of Our Heart How many of our regrets are the words that slipped from our mouths: mounting anger that ruptured into a torrent of destructive ugliness, icy sarcasm that cut deeply into raw and unapp...

Some Guidance before Beginning It might seem a little silly to offer tips on how to read a book. Don’t you start reading the first page and keep going until you reach the end? Well, yes. And no! Calvin’s&nb...

What Is True Theology? Good theology doesn’t necessarily guarantee good living. Far too many pastors, theologians, scholars, and laypersons have possessed good theology and lived like their father, the devi...

Let’s begin with a simple fact: I am a sinful man. As Joseph de Maistre once said, “I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be; I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.” Yes. Wh...

From the very beginning of our republic, the river of character has coursed through our veins. Our founders believed that individual character was critical to the formation of our nation. They believed that th...

Textual criticism is the discipline that, it's both a science and an art that has as it's fundamental goal to reconstruct the wording of an original document whose manuscripts no longer exist, or we don't know...

Traditionally, a heretic is someone who has compromised an essential doctrine and lost sight of who God really is, usually by oversimplification. Literally, heresy means “choice” — that is, a choice to deviate...