From Dana Point, CA

Dear Friends, I’m in Southern California this week, away from the cold of the East-coast winter, enjoying the warm sun and the spring-like breeze.  I think it is about 60 degrees outside, but the ocean wind actually feels a bit chilly.  People were still swimming in the outside heated pool, but they didn’t stay too long once [...]

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A Good Summary of the Reformed Faith

Brief and Untechnical Statement of the Reformed Faith by Benjamin B. Warfield   I believe that my one aim in life and death should be to glorify God and enjoy him forever; and that God teaches me how to glorify him in his holy Word, that is, the Bible, which he had given by the [...]

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David VanDrunen on the Culture War

 Biblical Theology and the Culture War   David Van Drunen One cannot read far into most evangelical or politically conservative publications before coming upon a discussion of the “culture war.” The perceived existence of this culture war sends distress signals among not only the religiously conservative, but even among many who are little interested in [...]

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John Frame on “Law and Gospel”

LAW AND GOSPEL By John M. Frame It has become increasingly common in Reformed circles, as it has long been in Lutheran circles, to say that the distinction between law and gospel is the key to sound theology, even to say that to differ with certain traditional formulations of this distinction is to deny the [...]

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Missions at Jubilee in 2009

Someone said that the word “mission” should be understood as a verb rather than an noun.  That means, missions isn’t something you do, but it is the very doing itself or the way our lives exhibit themselves naturally.  I believe that to  be true.  If so, missions ought not be programatic but a life-style.  Every [...]

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