To be liberated from our culture's scale of values, we need to reflect on the reason for Jesus' praising the greatness of the widow's gift.

Though both Law and Gospel have commands and promises, the Law and the Gospel have different conditions.

Can Christians learn aspects of truth from non-Christians?

How many Christians really see their Baptism as an important element of their Christian identity and growth?

The Lamb is on the throne, the dragon is on its last legs, and gospel is piercing the nations' darkness.

Women hold the general office of believer and as such, they have certain rights and responsibilities for service in the church.

Is the Bible like what the hit TV show Seinfeld has been called, a show about nothing?

Reflections as a second-generation Korean-American Presbyterian minister journeying on the margins between two cultures.

Though civil government suppresses wickedness in the world to some degree, it can never provide salvation.

It is essential to be concerned about both the head (sound doctrine) as well as the heart (the life of faith).

Our understanding of the reality of Adam affects our understanding of sin, of redemption, and of the Redeemer.

It is by having the word of Christ dwell in us richly that churches may escape being a mess and become the radiant body of Christ as God intended.

The best hymns of the historic Church, modeled on the Scriptures themselves (especially the Psalms) are rich with godly experience, but experience arising directly and explicitly in view of the mercies of God in his Son. 

By God's providence, common grace, and natural law, there exist wholesome and virtuous aspects of human culture despite the total depravity of humankind.

Far from being suspicious, we should welcome any ecumenical consensus that emerges out of the clear biblical testimony to God’s justification of the ungodly by imputing their sins to Christ and Christ’s righteousness to them through faith alone. However, the consensus that seems to be emerging in our day, as in other eras, seems to find its core sympathy in a more synergistic (Arminian and Roman Catholic) framework. 

Maintaining a proper definition of the works of the law means the difference between justification and condemnation, heaven and hell.

When we invoke the whole phrase — “the church Reformed and always being reformed according to the Word of God” — we confess that we belong to the church and not simply to ourselves and that this church is always created and renewed by the Word of God rather than by the spirit of the age.

Some of the most glaring distortions of Calvin?s ministry and doctrine are related to his understanding of the law.

An introduction to Paul's epistle to the Ephesians.

Calvin was incredibly disciplined, insightful and thorough-proven in his extensive biblical commentaries.