Are Some Parts of Scripture Greater than Others?
Sometimes in the name of zeal for biblical fidelity we can inadvertently correct others where no correction is needed. I’ve had the infelicitous experience of being corrected, on numerous occasions, …
Nick Batzig
Eric Alexander’s Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Rev. Dr. James M. Boice
The enormous privilege of being a pastoral intern with Phil Ryken at historic Tenth Presbyterian Church afforded me many other undeserved and exciting experiences. One of the most special of…
A Tale of Two Trees
When I was a new convert–having been brought from spiritual death to spiritual life–one of the things that I distinctly remember seeing with new eyes were trees. This was, in…
How Jesus Read the Old Testament (Part 2)
In my last TCC post, I sought to introduce a subject that I realized would be entirely new to some. Knowing this, I thought that it might be beneficial to…
How Did Jesus Read the Old Testament?
There has been something of a biblical-theological revolution over the past several decades. It is not a revolution in which new doctrines are being uncovered so much as it is…
The Most Important Overlooked Doctrine (Part 2)
In the previous post we briefly considered the biblical teaching on what is commonly called definitive sanctification. In this post we want to briefly consider yet another aspect of the…
The Most Important Overlooked Doctrine?
What is the most important overlooked biblical doctrine? Without hesitation, I would suggest that it is the doctrine of definitive sanctification.1 It was the late Professor John Murray who first articulated…
Death and Resurrection: The Key to the Old Testament
Why does so much of the Old Testament seem so foreign and irrelevant to those living in the New Covenant era today? Why do we so often struggle to understand…
How Jesus Redeems Our Calendars
Based on the title above, you might be wondering whether this is an article that will include practical counsel on time management and how to best maximize your schedule; or, you…
James and Justification: Which Court?
I have often taken comfort in the fact that the Apostle Peter said that Apostle Paul wrote “some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction,…
Does God the Father Love You Because of Jesus?
One of the more spiritually edifying questions that I remember debating with several brothers in seminary (and there were certainly plenty of spiritually unedifying ones!) was, "Does God the Father…
Jesus and the Empty Waterpot
John 4 is one of the most wonderful chapters in the Bible. In it we find the account of Jesus’ soul-satisfying offer to the woman at the well–the lengthiest single…