God made human beings in his image as people who require knowledge (Prov. 18:15). To argue otherwise, to argue that we don’t require knowledge, is to spit in the face of the doctrine that says that hu...  Read More

IntroductionIn 1952 the minister Norman Vincent Peale published his best-selling book, The Power of Positive Thinking. It sold 2.5 million copies from 1952 – 1956 and serves as one of the pillars of t...  Read More

Since the beginning of days, people have hankered to rank things. The caveman ranked the loincloths of their fellow cavers. Northern Europeans of ancient times debated the most esteemed Nordic poetry....  Read More

IntroductionOne of the developing trends is for companies, governments, colleges, and professional guilds to require their people to sign DEI statements (diversity, equity, inclusion). The legal origi...  Read More

The reason we need to engage in cultural apologetics is that the history of the evangelical church shows a tendency for cultural interests to eclipse biblical norms. The evangelical drift is to compro...  Read More

Dear Teenagers of Trinity Reformed Church,I write to encourage you to begin living with the full ramifications of your Christian faith. You must put off childish things and stand firm in the faith, li...  Read More

Biblical patriarchy expects wives to submit to their husbands. Hyper-patriarchy expects husbands to regularly remind wives of their duty to submit. In contrast to hyper-patriarchy, husbands need to fo...  Read More

IntroductionI’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 tell you what Belial te...  Read More

Here it is, a list of books; the best books we’ve read in 2022, which are different from the best books published in 2022. Why give you a list of books? Because we think reading is important and we th...  Read More

Church membership is out of fashion today. Sometimes this is for understandable reasons—previously living under incompetent or abusive church leadership. Sometimes this is for less understandable reas...  Read More

IntroductionAt the gate that separates life and death is a sanctity that shames seclusion. The joyful fellowship experienced by Christians now is only a preview of what occurs at Christ’s Second Comin...  Read More

IntroductionIn Dante’s Purgatorio, pride is the first sin punished. Penitents carry heavy boulders on their back, forcing proud heads to stoop so the gaze of their smug eyes never leaves the earth. El...  Read More