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What is the appeal of icons in the East? How should we as Christians handle this matter of icons? What does the Bible teach us about icons? The Bible does in fact speak of icons. The English word “icon” comes from the Greek word “εἰκών”. The Greek word simply means “image” or “likeness”. So here …

American Christians within the Reformed and Evangelical stream are familiar with the phrase “born again.” While the concept has been around for millennia in the church based on Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus in John 3, the phrase gained prominence during the American Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th centuries. The call to be born …

Guest post by Rev. James Zekveld The Corinthian church has many problems, but it is doing well in respecting the creational order of men and women in its assemblies by requiring the women who might pray and prophecy to wear a head covering. We should be cautious about stating, “This is what Paul teaches us …

People are naturally drawn to strong, confident masculine leadership. On the sports field, in the military, on the job, in politics, or in the church, when men show strength and confidence, exuding competence, others begin to look to them for leadership. This masculine leadership can be and has been faked and perverted. Charismatic leaders who …

For a little more than the past year, my two oldest sons and I have taken part in Trail Life, what we might describe in short-hand as “Christian Boy Scouts.” Or perhaps, what the Boy Scouts were always supposed to be. As of 2023, there were more than 1000 Trail Life troops all around the United States, and that number …

If you don’t care for your house for a while, you slowly grow accustomed to your surroundings. You adjust. Those things that are broken that you couldn’t get to quickly, you learn to work around and may even eventually think that you have no need for them. Those holes in the wall become a part …

We transitioned from the “Gospel-Centered” movement of the early 2000s, which advocated that our natural loves were actually idolatrous, to the “Gospel-Rare” movement of our day, which suggests that our natural loves only require the Gospel in those rare spiritual experiences. The Gospel-centered movement chastised anyone who maximized the natural biblical order. They offered pilgrimages …

Weddings are proclamations of the gospel. They are either faithful or unfaithful proclamations of the gospel, but they are proclamations of the gospel. They can take the gospel seriously and proclaim it with dignity, or they can be turned into a trivial ceremony of self-expression. In every wedding, nonetheless, there is a proclamation of the …

Nathanael is flabbergasted at Jesus’ knowledge of him before they met face-to-face. Philip told Nathanael that they had found the one of whom Moses and the prophets wrote: Jesus, the son of Joseph, the one from Nazareth. Nathanael was in disbelief that God’s “good one” would come from Nazareth. Philip called him to “come and …

Easter Sunday Meditation When Jesus made his Royal Entry into Jerusalem, his disciples proclaimed him King, singing Psalm 118. The Pharisees understood the implications of this. The disciples were confessing that Jesus was David’s son and heir. He was the one to whom the Father promised the nations for his inheritance (Ps 2). They demanded …