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As part of my growth as a professional, I'm moving my blog to a Wordpress site in which I will have my Hebrew course material open acces...

Forget _____________________ I do not desire radical utopia Rather I yearn for the chance to become a decent man. But don't ask m...

The acedic man, the one turned in on himself so that he is incapable of love, pulls all of reality out of its place as expansive and open, i...

Acedia (sometimes called 'despondency') is a condition of the soul that comes at the practical end of philautia ("that all-hati...

The “gifts of the Spirit” are found in three places in Scripture: 1 Cor. 12-14, Eph. 4, and Rom. 12. [Read 1 Cor. 12:4-11; Eph. 4:4-16; Rom....

Read together: Galatians 5:22-26 The Bible has a lot to say about trees and fruit.  We might remember that mankind’s possibility of blessedn...

Today, we’ll start doing a broad overview of how the Spirit works.  If we started where the Bible itself starts, we would begin with creatio...

The next four posts were teachings delivered at Covenant Fellowship RP Church in Wilkinsburg, PA.  I received a generous and warm welcome fr...

Preached at Chippewa EPC on 3/26/2017 ----------------------------------------------- We live in a time of growing division. When I was a c...

If we read Romans 9-11 in the traditional Reformed way, which creates an absolute division between the predestined elect and the predestined...

Recently, I heard a sermon making the boilerplate claim that we Protestants value Scripture over Tradition.  “Sola Scriptura!” and all that....