Dr. Scofield in this was acting the part of an intellectual charlatan, a fraud who pretends to knowledge which he does not possess; like a quack doctor, who is ready with a confident diagnosis in many cases where a competent physician is unable to decide. Recently, I read a fascinating review of the 1917 Scofield... Continue Reading

Do you understand what is meant by the term experimental or experiential? The term comes from the Latin word ‘experimentum’, derived from a verb which means to ‘try, test, prove, or put to the test’. ‘And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it... Continue Reading

The truth is that God established the death penalty before Moses. In fact, the death penalty is given to human government based on the Noahic Covenant. The recent horrendous murder of the Petit family in Connecticut has resulted in a death sentence. This is a due reward for the brutal murderer, Steven Hayes. It is... Continue Reading

Until we are content with being one of the million nameless, faceless church members and not the next globe-trotting rock star, we aren’t ready to be a part of the church. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at the Ligonier Ministries website last May. The Aquila Report has just been granted reprint permission for... Continue Reading

Writers for BioLogos have repeatedly made the case that we must relinquish the inerrancy of the Bible and accept that the biblical writers worked from a defective understanding of the world and its origins. Public debate is unpredictable by nature, but I have to admit that the approach undertaken by the folks at BioLogos continues... Continue Reading

I am all for supporting the AC. I like what the AC does. I love my brothers who serve in various capacities in the AC. All that being true doesn’t change this fact: the proposed plan is not biblical. Therefore, I oppose it. The PCA Administrative Committee (AC) posted a number of video interviews on... Continue Reading

Wayne Grudem explained that profit is “fundamentally good and provides many opportunities for glorifying God.” Profit is an indication of good stewardship. If the newly reconfigured Congress is concerned about America’s economic recovery one would hope that lawmakers would want to create the best possible environment for businesses to make profits. Profitable companies provide jobs.... Continue Reading

I am convinced that if younger PCA pastors comprehend that the apostles, the New Testament elders, and the New Testament deacons all possess derived authority, then they will understand why the same questions are asked of both elders and deacons… I want to continue to consider the biblical concept of “ordination” in this installment, along... Continue Reading

The KJV, wrote linguist David Crystal in 2004, “has contributed far more to English in the way of idiomatic or quasi-proverbial expressions than any other literary source.” In the past week or so, anyone following the news might have read that Jon Stewart is “a thorn in the side of politicians”; that Senator Harry Reid... Continue Reading

Evangelicals typically make the fatal mistake of assuming that the wider world actually cares about what they think. It does not: it increasingly regards us as fringe lunatics, rather as it did in the first century. Thomas Jefferson was no orthodox Christian but I have a deep suspicion that he should take significant responsibility for... Continue Reading