When considering Christ's crucifixion we are to strive to avoid the two extremes of being too sentimental or too doctrinal.

Seminary is preparation for the unique calling of helping people know God, His Kingdom and their role in His Kingdom and Church.

As Christians we are a part of a grand narrative that revolves around God's purposes in creation, redemption, and the age to come.

There is no place for suffering in the quintessentially American religion of Joel Osteen's theology of glory.

Joel Osteen's “good news” turns out to be the worst possible news-God's blessing on my life depends on my own good works.

Those who preach a gospel of “a personal relationship with God” fail to realize that everyone has a relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal or as a justified co-heir with Christ.

God is not abstractly interested in ensuring that we are either successful or unsuccessful; he has far larger plans for us.

 Jesus replies to the thief's requiest in abundant mercy and superlative blessing that the earth had not yet known.

Even on the cross Jesus is in communion with his Father, revealing the profound and majestic inter-Trinitarian fellowship.

The death of the Son of God is the Gospel itself.

The Apostle Paul utilizes Psalm 78 to encourage the church to be confident in their election in Christ and warn them of the temptation of taking the love of God for granted as Israel had done.

The importance of the Word of God is always to challenge our way of thinking so that our minds might be transformed.

A Reformed response to alternative Christian understandings of suffering and evil in light of the events of September 11, 2001.

The Apostle Paul reminds the Corinthians and us that changing the gospel jeopardizes its saving effect.

Paul's profound declaration of just how radically extensive and exclusive is Christ's mediation, as a free gift.

Personal reflections on the history of Westminster Seminary California.

An analysis of the prologue to Mark's gospel.

An analysis of Mark’s account of Jesus and the Gadarene demoniac.

An analysis of Mark's account of Jesus and the Syrophoenician woman.

We are to identify with Jesus in his humility, suffering, and lowering of himself for our sake.