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This is Part 3 of a 5-part series. Read Part 4 here , back to Part 2 here . Finding God Again In my God in the Whirlwind, I have developed what is the answer to our ailment. The indulgent God has done nothing good for the Church. It is time to return to the biblical God. But this is meaningless...

This article is Part 2 of a 5-part series. Read Part 3 here , back to Part 1 here . In the Eye of the Storm What the gospel does is to bring men and women who “did not know God” (I Cor. 1:21) into a saving knowledge in which they can declare that now they “have come to know God” (Gal. 4:9). They “...

It has often been maintained that the sixteenth-century Reformers had a poorly developed missiology, that missions was an area to which they gave little thought. Yes, this argument runs, they rediscovered the apostolic gospel, but they had no vision to spread it to the uttermost parts of the earth...

I have been honored to be asked to write a column for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals’ new biblical-theology website, A Place for Truth . In this space I will present articles and shorter posts that seek to bring God’s Word to bear on issues pertaining to Christian ministry. When the...

In 1996, leaders from Reformed and Evangelical churches in America gathered in Cambridge, Massachusetts to issue a call to reformation. They published The Cambridge Declaration , expressing concern that “churches today are increasingly dominated by the spirit of this age than by the Spirit of...

The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, as founded by James M. Boice, was the successor organization to the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy. The so-called “Battle for the Bible” was followed by the “Battle for the Gospel.” The former dealt with what the Reformers called “the formal...

This article is Part 1 of a 5-part series. Read Part 2 here . Today, we are living in the midst of one of the great transformations in Christian faith. What is changing is not, of course, its truth. What is changing is where this faith is living. For much of the last thousand years, it has found a...

The Purpose of Creeds Confessions are doctrinal summaries of the Bible’s teaching. They are written by the Church for the Church and the world. They are written for the world because churches with creeds and confessions are trying to be honest about themselves. These doctrinal statements announce...

“What must I do to be saved?” “How may we enter into, remain in, and at last come to the fullness of salvation?” That is the subject addressed in Question 85 of the Shorter Catechism: What does God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin? The answer is: To escape...