The Covenanters, Part 4: Archibald Johnson and Alexander Henderson
A lawyer and a minister walk into a Scottish Kirk… It sounds almost like the beginning set-up of a bad joke, but the lawyer Archibald Johnson and the minister Alexander…
Jacob Tanner
Jacob Tanner serves as Pastor of Christ Keystone Church, a Reformed Baptist church plant in Middleburg, Pennsylvania, and as Principal of Juniata Christian School. He is pursuing a Master of Divinity at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is currently working toward a Ph.D.
Richard Baxter and the Reformed Pastor as Leader of a Band of Soldiers
What is there to say about Richard Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor that has not already been said? It is, perhaps, one of the greatest books ever written by a pastor…
Letters of Revelation: Tolerating False Teaching, Thyatira
Along the banks of the Lycus River in the Roman province of Asia sat the city of Thyatira. It was a city of wealth and extravagance, acting as a commercial…
Proverbs 2:12-22: Defense Against the Wicked
The getting of wisdom is the difference between men and boys, for boys will stumble about in folly, but men will pursue the path of the wise. No one who…
The Covenanters, Part 3: The King James Bible, a Tyrant, and the Scottish National Covenant
The corridors of history are filled with surprising twists and abrupt turns. Some philosophers, noting how the cogs of history seem to turn abruptly upon the smallest of happenings, have…
The Beatitudes, Pt 4: Spiritual Progression
The Beatitudes offer some compelling directives for how our lives ought to be structured as Christians. The name itself simply means “Blessedness,” or even, “Supreme Blessedness,” and from Matthew 5:1-12,…
Preaching the Parables, Pt 5: Exegetical Methods
The Parables of Jesus are some of the most delightful passages to read in Scripture. Within them, Jesus, the God-man, weaves together powerful stories filled with symbols, metaphors, and illustrations…
The Marytdom of the Scottish Covenanter Hugh M’Kail
On December 22nd, 1666, the Market-Cross of Edinburgh was filled with a crowd of teary-eyed spectators. The cause of their lament was the young man of twenty-six-years-of-age who was being…
Christ in the Pentateuch, Pt 5, Law and Grace in Redemptive History
Douglas Adams opened his second book in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, with that famous line, “”In the beginning the Universe…
Salem, the Puritans, and the Witch Trials
If there is one haunting line from literature that may encapsulate the American and Christian spirit regarding Salem, Massachusetts, it may be Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous line from The House of…
The Covenanters, Part 2: The Kirk of the State and Her Confession
If you were to travel to the Reformation Wall in Geneva, Switzerland, or to the Huguenot Memorial in Franschhoek, South Africa, you would likely happen across that famous Latin phrase,…
The Covenanters, Part 1: Tracing the History of the Scottish Covenants
The Scottish Covenanters are not nearly as well remembered as they ought to be these days. If it wasn’t for the Scots, and the Covenanters in particular, there is good…