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You may think this quasi strange, but I have an affinity for certain Latin words. The fact is, you actually know and use many of them too. Have you ever felt like a persona non grata ? Do you cheer for your alma mater or depend on a per diem for business travels? How great is it when lawyers agree...

Read Mt. 1:22-2:12 Sometimes in conversation, we find ourselves talking about a great person, and after extolling his/her virtue, it is pointed out that this great person has remarkable humility or compassion to supplement his greatness. The compliment will then be added: “That’s just the kind of...

Read Matthew 1:18-25 If you were God and you were sending your Son into the world to save the world . . . into what kind of family would you send your chosen Son? Some might expect God to have selected a dazzling father, perhaps a noteworthy religious or civic leader. You might expect the Messiah...

“To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen” (Rev. 1:5-6). I have been preaching long enough to have now completed a number of different expository series. Few have been so...

Thomas Brooks, in his work The Secret Key to Heaven, gives a brief but wonderful insight into the nature of true prayer. He writes, God looks not at the elegancy of your prayers, to see how neat they are; nor yet at the geometry of your prayers to see how long they are; nor yet at the arithmetic of...

Read Matthew 1:18-25 No dad would believe it. Sure, dads are gullible at times, but if your teenage daughter came to you and said, “I’m carrying a child, and I have not had sexual relations,” you’d be furious. That, however, was the exact predicament of Mary’s father. She was a virgin. The virgin...

This article is the final enstallment of an on-going series. Read part 1 here , and part 2 here . Another curious development is the ease with which evangelicals use worldview thinking to forge political alliances unimaginable to an earlier generation of Protestants. Evangelicals and Catholics...

Read: Matthew 1:1-17 Most of us race through the Bible like a computer spell check program. When we read the Bible that way—blazing through as quickly as we can, as if a prize were given to the one who finishes first—we can miss critical messages. This remote-control style of Bible reading, in...

This article is part of an on-going series. Read Part 1 here . After Kuyper, Augustine’s distinction between the city of God and the city of man need not be so pronounced in the conservative Protestant imagination. In the 20 th century Cornelius Van Til expressed this possibility even more...

Anyone who pays attention to Christianity in the United States cannot help but notice the proliferation of organizations claiming to promote a Christian worldview. Sometimes called cultural apologetics and often called ministry, worldview theology found a fast market in evangelical circles the last...