Pure Church

My wife is a wonderful cook, and normally gets dinner on the table at a reasonable hour. But on this day, she came home with the groceries a...

The life of God which in the incarnation entered human nature is the root in which we are to stand and grow; it is the same almighty power...

It's an ol' school O'Jays kinda morning in the Cayman Islands. Well, maybe not in the Cayman Islands, but in my office in the Ca...

This week, in three different circumstances, I received three different books by Andrew Murray. I'm thinking I should read Murray, havin...

I feel compelled to begin this post with a bit of personal disclosure. I hope it's not inappropriate or offensive, most of all to the me...

My brother Lance loves baseball... and the gospel--and not in that order. He's still recovering from the fact that the Phils are watchi...

Grace Church San Diego has launched a new website , coinciding with a soon to come move into new facilities. Finally we get to listen to Mar...

Have you ever thought of how central an activity teaching is in the New Testament? I know pastors think of the centrality of teaching all th...

"How do you find our hospitality?" That was the first question my young Middle-Eastern friend asked me immediately after our intro...

My wife sent me this link to a recent Salon article. In the article, an atheist father is troubled about how to convince his young evangeli...

I don't much like walking through malls. I guess I'm the stereotypical male. I storm through to the one (at the most three) stores t...

Paul continues in his treatement of qualifications for leadership in the Lord's church. He has placed desire in the pole position and fo...

"If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach..." (1 Tim. 3...

"And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach oth...

The Desiring God conference audio and video is all online. If you've missed this, you'll probably want to carve out some serious ti...

The sisters at Capitol Hill Baptist Church are hosting a women's conference that promises to be edifying and challenging. The conferen...

Today, I'm settling back into the routine at FBC Grand Cayman after a simply glorious time of fellowship over the weekend with the saint...

There are a number of reasons. Chief among them are the scantily clad women airbrushed on slick magazine covers. But then there is the non-s...

This week I'm between trips to Toronto and Washington, DC. So, I've not had much time to write and blog. But in the time the Lord ha...

From Richard Baxter's The Reformed Pastor : "Take heed to yourselves lest you should be void of that saving grace of God which you ...