God in the Dark

Written 2008 When I travelled to Myanmar last month, I was asked what prompted my decision to go. I told my questioner, “I get to see God’s grace at work…

Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation

In January we will face a most grim anniversary. Within a matter of months we will have lived through a full generation of legalized abortion across our nation. Forty years…

Some Straight Skinny on Crooked Thinking

We serve an exponential God. He who made everything out of nothing does not increase through addition, but through multiplication. We move from faith to faith, from grace to grace,…

Oops, We Did It Again

The RC Sproul Jr. Principle of Hermeneutics does not just work with the historical passages of Scripture. It should always be in play. The principle reads, in its most basic…

Forty Days of Mourning

The Way of the World

It’s never hard to pick a fight on the internet. The real challenge is to avoid one, particularly during election season. All my friends agree President Obama needs to get…

Brothers, We Are Not Professors

Dr. Sproul speaks to pastors on the Desiring God website

Salt, Light, Fire and Brimstone- A Thought Experiment

Imagine if you will that you are Lot, living in a wicked culture caught up in abominable perversity. You seek, at least a little, to serve the Lord while living…

How can we pray for you in light of the passing of your daughter?

As always I give thanks for the prayers of God’s saints on my family’s behalf. One of the best lessons learned over months of mourning has been the experience of…

The Exceeding Sinfulness of Sin

One of the many blessings of having eight children is all that you learn about sin. Though my children are sinners, my point isn’t a snickering allusion to that reality,…