Our very own Matt Carpenter has started a podcast called “The Good Life” that we heartily recommend to you. Each episode emphasizes one of four areas that make a good life: pursuing God, loving our neighbor, growing in wisdom, and being a good steward of our gifts. There are many descriptions of a good life, asContinue reading “A New Podcast”
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One Little Word Shall Fell Him
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 trend against Christianity. For a few recent examples click here, here, here, and here. What are we to do? Chesterton once warned thatContinue reading “One Little Word Shall Fell Him”
Six Principles of Christian Fasting
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 freedom The NT says little about fasting. Aside from this passage in Mark (and the parallel passages in Matthew and Luke), thereContinue reading “Six Principles of Christian Fasting”
The City Unveiled—Encouragements in Family Devotion
Somewhere a faithful Christian father leads his family in evening devotion. He looks across the room over which he presides. Before him stretches chaos.
Principles for Distancing: Or, When do I Stop Ministering to that Person?
Readers of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress will remember when Christian and Hopeful encounter Atheist. Mockingly, Atheist says, “I laugh to see what ignorant persons you are, to take upon you so tedious a journey, and yet are like to have nothing but your Travel for your pains.”
John Calvin and the American Republic
The Imaginative Conservative featured an article from our own Matt Carpenter – check it out at the link below! The wisdom of men like John Calvin, who taught that original sin sometimes necessitated resisting tyrants and limiting the power of civil government, was understood by the Founders of the United States. Drawing on the wisdomContinue reading “John Calvin and the American Republic”
