• A Reasonable Approach to Abortion

Abraham Kuyper

• Abraham Kuyper on Calvinism and Politics
• Abraham Kuyper on Calvinism and Religion

Apologetics

• 1 Way to Defend the Authority and Trustworthiness of the Bible: The Classical Method
• Why is There No Record of The Exodus in Egyptian History?
• Contemporary Tolerance is for Wimps
• 3 Benefits to Exploring Christianity
• What Defines Right and Wrong or Good and Evil? Why There is Something Right Now Rather than Nothing at All
• How can I know that God exist?
• The New Media Frontier: An Interview with Roger Overton on Blogging and Evangelism
• Blogging and Apologetics: An Interview with Steve Hays of Triablogue
• Is Pluralism Tolerant?
• For the Bible Tells Me So: 7 Reasons Why I Believe What the Bible Says
• 5 Suggestions When Exploring Christianity
• The Story of Christianity Explains All Others

Bible Study

• List of Commentaries on Every Book of the Bible
• I’m Personally Learning why God uses Suffering to Produce Hope in Him
• Live Worthy of the Gospel: The Complete Series
• How to Live and Suffer for Christ in a Free and Democratic Society
• Finding Encouragement in Suffering for the Advance of the Gospel
• Live Worthy of the Gospel: Philippians 1.29 Faith and Suffering are Gracious Gifts from God
• That’s Just Your Opinion: Is Biblical Interpretation More than What it Means to Me?
• Live Worthy of the Gospel: Philippians 1.28b A Sign of Destruction and Salvation
• Live Worthy of the Gospel: Philippians 1.27-28a
• Live Worthy of the Gospel: Philippians 1.27-30 Literary Context
• One Issue and One Concern: The Complete Series on 1 Corinthians 14.1-19
• One Issue and One Concern: 1 Corinthians 14.13-19
• One Issue and One Concern: 1 Corinthians 14.6-12
• One Issue and One Concern: 1 Corinthians 14.1-19 Historical and Literary Context
• One Issue and One Concern: 1 Corinthians 14.1-5

Blog

• 6 Keys to Disagreeing Well and Improving Your Blogging and Commenting Etiquette

Book Reviews

• A Review of “In Justice” by Alan Sears

Christianity and Culture

• Learning Christianity from Batman Begins
• Tweet-thology
• Christianity and the “World”: How Misundestanding the Meaning of “World” Can Lead Christians to Removing themselevs From It
• What We Can Learn from the 250 Year History of Guinness
• Sleepwalkers, Awake! Understanding the Influence of Everyday Life
• 10 Steps Towards Understanding Culture and Applying the Gospel
• Does God Hate Haiti?
• #*@!: Profanity and the Bible
• The Cult of Personality
• In Search for God and Guinness
• A Baptist Minister on Smoking a Cigar to the Glory of God
• A Biblically Positive View of Alcohol
• Creation, Fall, and Redemption: Understanding the Relationship of Christianity with the World
• What’s the Difference between Christianity, Hinduism, and New Age Spirituality? Based upon Research, not Much
• The Reconciliation of Culture: Living as a Cultural Creator and Reconciler
• Culture after the Fall
• Commitment to the World: Calvinism, Work, and Capitalism
• What is Culture?
• Henry Van Til on The Concept of Culture
• John Leith on Culture and the Reformed Tradition
• Finding Community in “The Office”

Christianity and Democracy

• Government is A Part of God’s Good Created Order
• The Wall of Separation Between Church and State: A Misunderstood and Applied Metaphor
• Misguided Compassion? A Look at Extending Unemployment Benefits
• Why and How Christians Should Be Involved in the U.S. Political Process
• Christians are to be Involved in the Democratic Process Distinctly as Christians
• 2 Ways Christians can Balance their Involvement with the Government of the United States of America?
• Christianity and Democracy: Understanding their Relationship
• A Response to Pacifism
• Moving Forward in Politics from Historical and Contemporary Mistakes
• Political Leaders do not have the Final Say: The Limited Role of the Government is Affirmed in both the Old and New Testament’s
• Faith and Government are not Mutually Exclusive
• The Government’s Authority is Limited, not Final
• Expressing Love in the Democratic Process
• Where’s the Love in Christianity and Politics?
• Compromising in the Political Realm: How Christians can Learn to Rightfully Compromise in Policy, not Conviction
• Does Political Involvement Impede Evangelistic Efforts?
• Should Christians be Primarily Concerned with Evangelism and not Public Policy?
• Christians have an Obligation to be Involved within the Democratic Process
• Christianity and Democracy: Submitting to the Existing Form of Government, Part 2
• Christianity and Democracy: Submitting to the Existing Form of Government
• Christianity and Democracy: An Introduction

Christianity and the Law

• The Relationship of Christianity and the Law by Vern Poythress
• Matthew 5.17: D.A. Carson on Christ Fulfilling the Law

Church Planting

• What is Church Planting?
• Why We Should Plant More Churches in Charleston, WV

Church rePlanting

• rePlanting Churches: Resources for Facilitating Church Revitalization

Conflict Resolution

• 1 Reason Why I Think Matthew 18.15-20 Shouldn’t Be Used to Resolve Common Conflicts

Cultural Christianity

• 3 Suggestions from Tim Keller in Reaching Those that think the Church is the Problem
• Oswald Chambers on Cultural Christianity
• Chart Comparing Biblical vs. Cultural Christianity
• Facebook Christianity
• Lessons learned from a Yard Sale about Grace
• Reasoning away the Authority of Jesus
• The Pre-em-i-nence of Christ Proven by the Baptism of John
• Tweet Tweet by Dr. David Sills
• The Pre-em-i-nence of Jesus Christ, Part 2
• Dick Staub on Christianity-Lite
• William Wilberforce on Cultural Christianity
• The Pre-em-i-nence of Jesus Christ

Discipleship

• Do Churches Need to Reconsider Building Programs?

Doctrines of Grace

• Election: Defined and Defended
• Limited Atonement: Defined and Defended
• Total Depravity: Defined and Defended

Ecclessiology

• Moving Towards Missional Ministry
• Tim Keller on the Big Issues Facing the Church and How Churches Should Prepare
• Body Count Evangelism: A Genuine Love for Souls?
• Churching the Unchurched
• An Ecclesiological Assessment of the Emerging Church Movement by John Hammett

Environmentalism

• Should Caring for the Environment be a Priority for Christians?
• What is Biblical Environmentalism?

Evangelism

• Moving Towards Missional Ministry
• What Does it Mean to be Missional?
• Why the Majority of Presbyterians Don’t Use “Altar Calls”
• 3 Simple Questions To Help Share Your Faith

Featured

• What is Church Planting?

Free Will

• 2 Reasons Why I Disagree with the Freewill Theory Espoused by Aquinas

gospel

• A Reasonable Faith: 8 Propositions for Non-Christians to Consider about Christianity

Government

• Does Christianity Support Socialism?
• How Far Does our Allegiance to the Government Go?

Infant Baptism

• Infant Baptism Resources
• An Apologia of Infant Baptism: The Argument from Silence
• An Apologia of Infant Baptism: What Does Circumcision and Baptism Mean?
• An Apologia of Infant Baptism: Unity of the Covenants
• Covenant: Defined and Delivered
• An Apologia of Infant Baptism: Formulating a Doctrinal Position

John Calvin

• The Life and Influence of John Calvin: The Complete Series
• John Calvin: 4 Points to Take into Consideration with his involvement in the Execution of Michael Servetus
• John Calvin: His Continuing Legacy
• John Calvin: His Final Years and Contributions from 1541 to 1564
• John Calvin: His Brief Exile from Geneva in 1538 to 1541
• John Calvin’s Life in Geneva from 1536 to 1538
• John Calvin on the Pre-em-i-nence of Christ
• John Calvin: His Conversion and Departure from Paris
• John Calvin: Life as a Student
• John Calvin’s Early Life

Marriage

• Marriage is Foundational for the Well-Being of Society
• Marriage: Its Foundational Importance and the Role of the Government
• Marriage is Foundational for the Furtherance of Society

Missional

• 3 Ingredients in Determining the Flavor of the Local Church
• Community Exegesis: Observing and Reaching Your Community
• Missional Churches Create a High Threshold for Membership
• Missional Churches Define and Develop Disciples of their Local Community
• The Churches Involvement with Non-Christians is Essential to Fulfilling Its Mission
• The Churches Involvement in the Community is Essential to Fulfilling its Mission
• The Correlation between a Churches Calendar and Evangelism Effectiveness

New calvinism

• Evangelicals Urged to Heed Calvin’s Voice
• On the New Calvinism: Piper, Hansen, and James during the Religious Newswriters Association Annual Convention
• “New” Calvinism Resources: A Collection of Articles, Audio Messages, and Books

Old Testament

• Why is There No Record of The Exodus in Egyptian History?
• Historical Validity of the Tower of Babel

Op-Ed

• What Are Your Thoughts on Ted Haggard’s Return to Ministry?
• With the Increasing Size, Cost, and Control of the Federal Government, Will the People Revolt?
• Op-Ed: Did John Calvin Acknowledge the Continuation of the Gifts of the Spirit?
• Op-Ed: Response to Delegate Bonnie Brown and the Passage of SB 597 (Abortion Ultrasound Bill)
• Op-Ed: What Will Become of Joe Biden’s Visit to Israel?
• Op-Ed: Response to Glenn Beck Taking-to-Task a Caller
• Op-Ed: Can Twitter Boost a Congregations Engagement During Worship Services?
• Op-Ed: What Do You Think About a Pastor Sitting in the Lap of Luxury?
• Op-Ed: What are the distinguishing characteristics between the megachurch of today from yesterday?
• Op-Ed: What would the Church look like in the U.S. if…
• Op-Ed: Should we bless our animals? Will animals go to heaven?
• Op-Ed: Should Government Employees Earn More than Employees in the Private Sector?
• Op-Ed: In a Multi-Site Church, Who is Responsible for the Souls of the Satellite Churches?

Pastoral Ministry

• How I Got Involved with the Presbyterian Church
• The Calling of a Pastor: How should a Preacher preach?

Poetry

• My First Feeble Attempt at Poetry: The Light of Life

Prophecy

• Encouraging Prophetic Ministry in the Local Church
• The Gift of Prophecy Today: The Complete Series
• The Gift of Prophecy Today: A Response to Dr. Sam Storms
• Gift of Prophecy: How to Evaluate a Prophetic Message
• Gift of Prophecy: Ordering its Use in the Church
• The Gift of Prophecy Today: Authority of Revelations
• The Gift of Prophecy Today: What is Prophecy?
• The Gift of Prophecy Today
• Prophetic Paranoia: 5 Things Prophecy is Not

Prosperity Gospel

• Most Christians Are Infected with the Prosperity Gospel: Sam Storms
• A Call for Discernment: A 4-Part Video Series by Justin Peters in Exposing the Word of Faith and Prosperity Gospel
• Measuring Oral Robert’s Influence
• The Prosperity Gospel in Africa
• 6 Practical Reasons why Christians won’t Hit it Big playing the Prosperity Gospel Game
• Does God Want You to be Rich?

Reformed Continuationist

• Another Reason Why the Historical Absence of the Spiritual Gifts Does Not Mean They Have Ceased
• Encouraging Prophetic Ministry in the Local Church
• A Game of Semantics? What does it mean to be a Reformed Continuationist?
• Are Signs and Wonders for Today?
• Reformed Continuationist: The Abuse of the Gifts of the Spirit do not Undermine their Credibility Today
• Reformed Continuationist: Why the Gift of Prophecy Does Not Undermine the Authority of the Bible
• An Illustration Showing how the Cessationist Position Negates Parts of the Bible
• 3 Arguments against Cessationism
• Reformed Continuationist: The Gifts of the Spirit were not Confined to the Apostles
• History and the Continuation of the Gifts of the Spirit
• Reformed Continuationist: Why Ephesians 2.20 does not Disprove the Continuation of the Gifts of the Spirit

Reformed Tradition

• Perhaps an Irrefutable Argument in Favor of Definite Atonement by John Owen?
• The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) on the Experience of the Holy Spirit Today
• Reformed or Calvinst?
• What does it mean to be Reformed? Embracing the Sovereignty of God
• Reformation Theology Reading Guide
• John Leith on Culture and the Reformed Tradition

Romans 9

• Not Everyone from Israel is an Heir to the Redemptive Promises of God (Rom. 9.6b)
• Salvation is Not Based upon Family Lineage (Romans 9.7-8)
• 5 Steps to Studying and Interpreting a Passage of Scripture
• Have the Promises of God to Israel Failed? A Look at Romans 9.6a
• Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated: A Brief Look at Romans 9.13
• Israel’s Privileged Position in God’s Redemptive Purposes
• Explanation of Paul’s Emotions and His Desire to be Separated from Christ (Rom 9.3)
• The Apostle Paul’s Honesty and Grief (Rom 9.1-2)
• Individual, Unconditional Election and Romans 9

seminary

• 2 Dangers Faced When Attending Seminary

Sermon

• The Righteousness of God

Sexuality

• When Sex Leaves the Marriage
• Porn-Again Christian: A Frank Discussion on Pornography and Masturbation by Mark Driscoll

Sitting with Schaeffer

• The Man who Preached Without a Bible: Learning to Speak to Non-Christians without the Bible
• Sitting with Schaeffer: 4 Steps Christians Should Take in Combating Abortion
• Sitting with Schaeffer: Christianity and Humanism are like Oil and Water, they Don’t Mix
• Sitting with Schaeffer: The Problem with Christians in the U.S.
• Sitting with Schaeffer: How Christianity gave birth to Modern Science
• Sitting with Schaeffer: Why the name Jesus can be so scary
• Sitting with Schaeffer: Jesus is Lord of Everything and Everyone
• Sitting with Schaeffer: What Does it Mean to Believe in Jesus Christ?
• Sitting with Schaeffer: From Mechanical to Relational Evangelism
• Sitting with Schaeffer: How Unbelief and Apathy Destroy a Society
• Sitting with Schaeffer: Personal Peace and Affluence
• Sitting with Schaeffer: Manipulation and the Media
• Sitting with Schaeffer: A Christian Manifesto

Spiritual Depression

• How do you Battle Spiritual Depression? Suggestions from St. John of the Cross
• The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross

Spiritual Gifts

• Our Understanding of the Spirit’s Work
• Martyn Llyod-Jones on Speaking in Tongues
• Martyn Llyod-Jones: The Sovereignty of God and the Spiritual Gifts

suffering

• How I’m Learning to Rejoice in the Things that Lead me to Doubt God’s Goodness

Theology

• Some thoughts on Whether or Not a Christian Can Lose their Salvation?
• The Gospel for All of Life: We are Redeemed from the Penalty and Power of Sin
• We’re Not Only Saved by the Gospel, We’re Transformed by the Gospel
• Who was Jesus: Cultural Trend Setter or the Son of God?
• Is Arminianism a Biblical View or is it Heresy?

Tithing

• Is Tithing Biblical?
• Should Christians Tithe?

Twisting Truth

• Twisting Truth: John 20.22 – Salvation and the First Step Towards the Baptism with the Holy Spirit?
• Twisting Truth: Jeremiah 29.11 – Prosperity, Future, Hope, and the American Dream?
• Twisting Truth: Matthew 7.1 and the Question of Not Judging Others

Uncategorized

• 7 Fatal Flaws of Relativism

Word of Faith

• A Call for Discernment: A 4-Part Video Series by Justin Peters in Exposing the Word of Faith and Prosperity Gospel

Worship

• God-Centered Worship is Trinitarian and Transforming
• Doxological Evangelism
• 4 Suggestions in Creating Comprehensible Worship
• Goal of Worship: God-Centeredness
• Defining Corporate Worship: The Role of Historical Tradition and Community Context
• Defining Corporate Worship: The Role of the Bible

Youth

• Are We Not Allowing Our Kids to Grow-Up?