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Conflict and Selfishness: A Case Study of the Pilgrims
Jason Cherry
Nov 25, 2024
The American side of the Scrooby congregation was without a pastor. John Robinson stayed with the Leyden side of the congregation in the Netherlands. The ruling elder...
Business Dealings in the Church
Michael Shover
Nov 18, 2024
As our church community grows and people are working with and for one another, there are opportunities for sin to mess things up. Here are a few helpful tips to...
What if Charles Chauncy was Right?
Jason Cherry
Oct 14, 2024
Charles Chauncy was the Grand Poo-Bah of the Old Light coalition that opposed the New Light evangelists George Whitefield, Gilbert Tenent, and James Davenport...
How Politics Killed Jesus
Jason Cherry
Sep 16, 2024
The Sanhedrin had been crowned, anointed, and named the official power brokers of Israel. When the rogue rabbi from Nazareth showed up, they claimed the right to kill ...
The Conspiracy of Absalom
Jason Cherry
Aug 19, 2024
Absalom, David’s third son, is a character painted in the vivid and tragic hues of Scripture. He is introduced as a man of striking appearance.
Joab the Commander: Savage or Saint?
Jason Cherry
Jul 29, 2024
Bible readers are well-acquainted with the luminous figures of the Old Testament: the first Adam, the venerable Abraham, and the illustrious Patriarchs, not ...
Laughter is Resurrection
Jason Cherry
May 2, 2022
Wendell Berry concludes his poem, Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front, with the exhortation to “practice resurrection.” In this same poem, he says, “Expect the end...
Following God from a Distance
Matt Carpenter
Apr 25, 2022
When I was young, I remember hearing a preacher ask the congregation, “Are you following closely to God?” He meant that we should all follow as closely as we can at ...
The Call to Persistence
Matt Carpenter
Apr 11, 2022
Galatians 6:7-10, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap ...
Preparing for the World to Come
Matt Carpenter
Feb 26, 2022
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed...
Rinse and Repeat: Encouragements to Press On
Jason Cherry
Feb 20, 2022
If the genesis of Calvinism lies in the sovereignty of God, the genesis of fatalism lies in the failure to understand the companion reality of the responsibility of man..
Launch out into the deep
Matt Carpenter
Feb 14, 2022
Luke 5:1-11 presents the story of Jesus calling some of His apostles. It reads as follows: And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the...
A Brief Theology of Possessions
Jason Cherry
Jan 24, 2022
The problem of “stuff” in modern American life is not that we have too much of it, but we have the wrong view of it. Put again, the problem isn’t stuff, but our misuse...
Theocracy – the Christian Hope
Matt Carpenter
Sep 6, 2021
The word “theocracy” carries a lot of baggage today. A term of derision for many, it conjures up visions of dictatorial governments, strict rules, and forced ...
What is the relationship between apostasy and blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
Jason Cherry
Aug 17, 2021
In our recent sermon entitled “Whiteness is not the unforgivable sin,” (which can be found by clicking here) we defined blasphemy against the Spirit, AKA the ...
One Little Word Shall Fell Him
Jason Cherry
Apr 23, 2021
Comedian Roy Rogers used to say that he only knew what he read in the papers. Well, if you’ve been reading the paper lately, or the online paper, there is a decided...
Six Principles of Christian Fasting
Jason Cherry
Apr 18, 2021
NOTE: This blog post is based on teaching notes from the sermon on 4.18.21. If you would like to listen to the entire sermon, click here. First, fasting is a matter of ..
Christian Foundations: The Fall and Original Sin
Jason Cherry
Jun 17, 2024
Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptations of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin God was pleased, according...
Christian Foundations: The Divinity of Christ
Jason Cherry
Jun 10, 2024
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,the Only Begotten Son of God,born of the Father before all ages.God from God, Light from Light,true God from true God...
Traditions: The Living Faith of the Dead
Jason Cherry
Jun 3, 2024
There is a need for careful distinction between tradition and traditionalism. The word “tradition” appears six times in Mark 7:1-23. Jesus is teaching about what...
Human Nature is Religious and Why It Matters
Jason Cherry
May 27, 2024
In the book, What is a Person?, Christian Smith argues that human beings express specific capacities, powers, limits, and tendencies that form human nature.
Seven Truths About Art
Jason Cherry
Apr 22, 2024
Francis Schaeffer said, “For a Christian, redeemed by the work of Christ and living within the norms of Scripture and under the leadership of the Holy Spirit...
50 Characteristics of Pseudoprophetes
Jason Cherry
Apr 15, 2024
False prophets speak super-spiritual language to deceive and manipulate people (Lamentations 2:14). False prophets promise peace when it suits their interest and war...
Symbiotic Kinship: Converging the Complex Bond of Faith and Works
Jason Cherry
Apr 8, 2024
“I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; 14...
The Good News of Everlasting Fire
Matthew Carpenter
Apr 1, 2024
“Now I will rise,” says the Lord; “Now I will be exalted, Now I will lift Myself up.You shall conceive chaff, You shall bring forth stubble; Your breath, as fire...
“He Descended into Hades”: Retrieving Holy Saturday
Gage Crowder
Mar 25, 2024
Holy Saturday is probably the most ignored day on the Church calendar. Less maliciously, it is certainly the easiest day to forget in the Eastertide season...
C.S. Lewis on Church Membership
Jason Cherry
Feb 26, 2024
On February 10, 1945, C.S. Lewis read a paper to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius entitled “Membership.” The paper was published in Sobornost, no. 31, in June...
Rousseau’s Bluff: A Christian Response to Enlightenment Anthropology
Jason Cherry
Feb 12, 2024
The wider intellectual trend of the “age of light” (as Jonathan Edwards referred to the Enlightenment) was the emphasis on man’s libertarian free will—the individual’s...
Hope and Optimism
Matthew Carpenter
Nov 13, 2023
Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Most people would call themselves optimistic, but that’s because most people in the U.S. consider themselves an optimist...
Raising Canaan: The “Curse of Ham” Reconsidered (Part 3)
Gage Crowder
Oct 23, 2023
Thomas Merton said that judgments from God are also always the mercy of God.[1] Though this thought is perhaps perplexing at first, we would do well to listen to the...
Raising Canaan: The “Curse of Ham” Reconsidered (Part 2)
Gage Crowder
Oct 16, 2023
Along with Jeptha’s rash vow, Elisha’s boy-gorging she-bears, and the baby-bashing crescendo of Psalm 137, few passages promise to wreck your morning coffee...
Raising Canaan: The “Curse of Ham” Reconsidered (Part 1)
Gage Crowder
Oct 9, 2023
A father-and-son at enmity, a hint of nudity, the air of conspiracy–the scene in Noah’s vineyard tent after the flood smacks with all of the trappings of an HBO...
Thirty Theses About Good Works
Jason Cherry
Oct 2, 2023
Faith is the antecedent condition of justification (Rom. 5:1). Works are not efficacious for acquiring justification (Rom. 3:23f; 5:5). Regenerate Christians will ...
Who Killed Jesus?
Jason Cherry
Sep 11, 2023
The murder of Christ is not a fragment of a larger theology. It is the larger theology that touches every fragment. In the death and resurrection of Christ...
Submitting to God's Righteousness
Larson Hicks
Aug 28, 2023
It is SO GOOD to be home! Summer was pretty hectic for the Hicks family, but we enjoyed making some lovely memories with Jed before he left and I got to drop him off ...
Five Questions About Assurance
Jason Cherry
Aug 7, 2023
Evangelicals exhibit a mysterious suspicion of the assurance of salvation. And so it is that lots of Christians struggle with a lack of assurance. They have anxiety about the final...
A Biblical Study of Blessing
Jason Cherry
Jul 10, 2023
The word “bless” is a regular part of life in the South. Clerks conclude the transaction with “Have a blessed day.” Little old ladies conclude the gossip huddle with ...
Situational Psalms
Jason Cherry
Jun 26, 2023
Many of you are now in the midst of memorizing Psalms for our annual Psummer Psalms (thanks to Daron Drown for organizing this event every year). This is where you...
Anointing with Oil
Jason Cherry
Jun 12, 2023
In Mark 6:7-13 Jesus sends the twelve disciples out on an authorized mission. The word used for “send” in Mark 6:7 is apostello, which is a cognate of the word apostle...
Cyrus: God’s Unexpected Messiah
Jason Cherry
May 29, 2023
In 556 B.C. King Nabonidus inherited the land between the Tigris and Euphrates. This was a constantly disputed territory and a challenger arose to rival the rule of...
“The Day of the Lord” and the “Lord’s Day”: Or, What Happens on Sundays?
Gage Crowder
Feb 27, 2023
“This is the day that the Lord has made, / I will rejoice and be glad in it.” These words of Psalm 118:24 often echoed through my rural church just after the...
Belial and the Covenant
Jason Cherry
Jan 9, 2023
I’m about to tell you about a fellow named Belial. Well, he’s not a fellow as much as he is a repeating series of worthless sons. But we’ll get to that. Then I will...
Waiting for a King
Matthew Carpenter
Dec 19, 2022
This article originally appeared at the North American Anglican It’s interesting how many Western legends include the tale of a sleeping hero: one who ...
Faith, Conversion, and the Mysteries of God
Jason Cherry
Nov 7, 2022
“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:8