The American side of the Scrooby congregation was without a pastor. John Robinson stayed with the Leyden side of the congregation in the Netherlands. The ruling elder, William Brewster, came over on t...  Read More

It has pleased the Lord to call our loving and faithful pastor Matt Carpenter to First Congregational Church in Middleborough, MA. To write about our dear and reverend brother seems like a Sisyphean t...  Read More

Introduction“Should Christians be on social media?” is a very different question from “Should I be on social media?” In framing these questions there are two common mistakes. One mistake is when the f...  Read More

IntroductionCulture-making is one of the ways we change the world. But we should think small before we think big. Tip O’Neill famously said, “All politics is local.” What if we thought of culture-maki...  Read More

Francis Schaeffer said, “For a Christian, redeemed by the work of Christ and living within the norms of Scripture and under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, the lordship of Christ should include an ...  Read More

A scoffer is someone who behaves with arrogance, haughtiness, and pride. (Prov. 21:24). They are simple and hate knowledge (Prov. 1:22). They injure, abuse, and hate those who correct them (Prov. 9:7-...  Read More

IntroductionIn C.S. Lewis’s novel That Hideous Strength, Mark Studdock is a paradigm for what conversion looks like in a post-Christian society. Mark is a soft, pacifistic, non-confrontational person ...  Read More

IntroductionCharles Chauncy was the Grand Poo-Bah of the Old Light coalition that opposed the New Light evangelists George Whitefield, Gilbert Tenent, and James Davenport during the First Great Awaken...  Read More

In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described the problem of the Soviets sending stool pigeons into the prison. These Soviet plants spied on the inmates. Solzhenitsyn describes that a “se...  Read More

IntroductionAt Harvard College in the eighteenth century, hell was the first doctrine discarded. It was an offense to rationalism that a loving God sends people to hell. They didn’t pretend the Bible ...  Read More

The Sanhedrin had been crowned, anointed, and named the official power brokers of Israel. When the rogue rabbi from Nazareth showed up, they claimed the right to kill him, as much as a Scot has a righ...  Read More

IntroductionTrouble sleeping? There is danger in too little sleep (Prov. 3:24). We wish we could, like Jesus, remain “asleep on the cushion” in a boat tossed by the storm and battered by the waves (Mk...  Read More