March 27, 2009

One of my responsibilities as a presbyter/elder in the Nashville Presbytery is to be on the Leadership Development Committee (LDC), the committee charged with supervising men who sense a call to the gospel ministry, and examining men who are called to a particular charge. Being ...

March 13, 2009

This week I have been in Greenville, South Carolina, at Greenville Theological Seminary, attending a conference there on the life and theology of John Calvin. This year marks the 500th anniversary of the great reformer’s birth in 1509, and across the world, literally, Christians are ...

February 25, 2009

This past Sunday morning’s text was chock full of robust and practical theology (note below for what I had to leave out of my sermon!), and from your comments, God’s Spirit was at work in a special way through His Word. I covet your ...

January 30, 2009

We live in a secular culture, where the claims of truth and the claims of Christ fall on deaf ears. Secularization demands that we live bifurcated lives; that is, it commands us to keep our private life and our public life (whether political, ...

January 16, 2009

It’s amazing that it is already 2009…it makes me want to rent 2010: A Space Odyssey and see what life is supposed to be like next year. What is a new year without new year’s resolutions? I have been trying to wake up ...

December 17, 2008

As I prepared for worship last week, I was reminded again of the fact that the coming of Jesus into our fallen world has ethical implications for God’s people. It’s easy to get distracted by the sentimentality of the season and the busyness ...

December 5, 2008

Growing up in Baton Rouge, snow fell perhaps three times in my whole life. Therefore it’s a lot of fun to live in a place where snow falls every winter! The snow should make us think of at least two things as believers: ...

November 19, 2008

It has been a privilege to walk through the covenants of promise with you these past six Sundays. Seeing God’s eternal plan of redemption come to pass in history, culminating in the arrival of Jesus Christ our Savior, brings great wonder, awe, joy, and ...

November 5, 2008

Fall is upon us, and the beauty of the trees in Tennessee is nothing less than breathtaking. Not just the heavens, but the leaves as well “are telling of the glory of God” (Psalm 19:1). It is just one more reason we are thankful ...

October 22, 2008

Well, it’s been just over one year since I began my joyful labors among you. October 14, 2007, was the first Sunday I entered the pulpit as the pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church, and it’s been a wonderful twelve months. God has confirmed His ...