Dr Carl R. Trueman is interviewed on Reformed Forum about his significant new book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Crossway), in which he addresses the factors undergirding modern culture’s obsession with identity. Sexual identity in particular hasContinue Reading
When I was preaching week by week to the same congregation, one of my fundamental convictions was that I needed to keep politics out of the pulpit. Perhaps I should express that more precisely: I needed to keep party politics out of the pulpit. I was — and still am — convincedContinue Reading
As if it weren’t challenging enough to live by the Ten Commandments and the two Great Commandments, somewhere along the line someone decided that we also needed an additional “Four Spiritual Laws”. So now, right after “God so loved the world”, many Christians add, “God loves you and has aContinue Reading
Augustine taught the two kingdoms approach. This view made it possible for profound Christian involvement and influence in secular society, while at the same time never giving in to the naïve assumption that any human culture or nation is – or can become – truly righteous or good. For onlyContinue Reading
God’s good creation testifies to us that there is a divine Creator who we are called to worship and follow. What we do instead is suppress that truth in unrighteousness.Continue Reading
Prior to Jesus’s coming, the people looked forward to Jesus and to his saving work through those images: the temple, the priesthood, the sacrifices.Continue Reading
Jesus comes out of Egypt in Matthew 2, through the waters in Matthew 3, and then he enters a period of temptation in Matthew 4 for 40 days. It is almost as if he is walking in the footsteps of Israel. Jesus is revealing himself as the true Israel –Continue Reading
It might be shocking to the reader to hear that much of what is so-called praise today in worship is not received by the Lord. God certainly turns his ear away from not just vain repetitions, but also empty hearts due to empty theology. It should be self-evident that ourContinue Reading
Exposure of pastoral abuse has become all too common in our day. One of the most needful practices at the moment is for the church to give attention to the qualifications for pastoral ministry. While no pastor or elder will ever achieve perfection in this life, the standard is aContinue Reading
As the author comes to the final warning passage in Hebrews 12:25–29, it helps if we see its apparent severity in the light of the principle that the indicatives of grace give rise to the imperatives of obedience. “You have not come … But you have come” (Heb. 12:18, 22).Continue Reading