The Compass Christ Sails By
“Follow your heart.” We hear this time and again, the world’s mantra to find assurance in emotion and intuition. Yet this is hardly a consolation for the Christian who knows…
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.
Psalm 127: Unless the Lord Builds the House
The culture in which we live is diametrically opposed to the idea of the family as set forth in Psalm 127. Here, the Psalmist refers to a household, composed of…
Psalm 126: Set Free!
That Psalm 126 bears the heading “A Song of Ascents,” and is within the grouping of the Psalms of Ascent is a providential grace of God. Likely penned later than…
Unconditional Election & Shepherding
Unconditional election, when rightly understood, is one of the most freeing doctrines for the under shepherd to embrace and one of the most assuring doctrines for the Christian to hold.…
Inerrancy: Does God Matter to the Discussion?
The physical act of writing out letters and then physically sending them in the mail to others is part of a bygone era. These days, fingers strike digital keyboards and…
God Is Sovereign
History is replete with the stories of despots and tyrants who wielded unbridled power with cataclysmic results. Everyone knows the horrors of the Hitlers of the world. Shakespeare famously wrote…
Pride: A Christian Response
In 2011, then 63-year-old Italian History Professor Roberto De Mattei made the following statement about the decline of Rome: “The collapse of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the…
Clarkson on the Profitability of Public Worship
“And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one…
The Ten Words: The Fourth
Let’s consider the Fourth Commandment carefully: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Ex. 20:8). There are two parts to this: 1. Remembering the Sabbath; 2. Keeping the Sabbath…
Let’s Study the Beatitudes! Part 9, Persecution
There was a time when 2 Timothy 3:12 worried me. In it, Paul tells Timothy, “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”…
Edwards on Testing True Revival
The Great Awakening of the mid-eighteenth century provoked the ire of many Protestants. This was due to reports of hysteria surrounding the Awakening’s particular brand of revivalism. Many did not…
Edwards on the Recovery of True Christian Virtue
Christian virtue is lovely to behold. Jonathan Edwards, in his treatise A Dissertation Concerning the Nature of Virtue, described it as, “Something beautiful, or rather some kind of beauty, or…