Resources from 2025
Church: A Review Series of Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley, Reformed Systematic Theology (Part 6)
Theology must affect our lives if it has been rightly understood. Still, we easily think of doctrine as ideas locked away in the pages of books or hanging in the air of lecture halls. Where does theology come to bear upon us as we live before the Lord? What is the intersection of doctrine and life? [...]
Always Reforming: Why Extraordinary Results in the Church Have Always Depended on Ordinary Means
Semper reformanda was the clarion call of the Protestant Reformation—a rallying cry for the church to continually reform herself according to the sole magisterial authority: Scripture. Latin for “always reforming,” the phrase came to express the conviction that the church [...]
I started to read Matthew Tuininga’s The Wars of the Lord: The Puritan Conquest of America's First People with excitement. I found the subject intriguing, and I read through the first chapter quickly. Tuininga is an excellent writer and reading this book was like watching a movie. The story was gripping, the images vivid [...]
In a deep and varied recent conversation with Michael Horton, Joseph Minich of The Davenant Institute discussed the themes of his latest book, Bulwarks of Unbelief (Lexham Academic, 2023). I encourage you to watch the interview. But fair warning: Minich's breadth of learning and depth of reflection [...]
Of the doctrines promulgated by the Protestant Reformers, one of the most influential was a renewed understanding of human vocation. Medieval society was divided into three estates—those who prayed, those who fought, and those who worked—with a stark division between [...]
Salvation: A Review Series of Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley, Reformed Systematic Theology (Part 5)
Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley continue to roll out the installments of their projected four-volume Reformed Systematic Theology, and this review series has interacted with each section of this multi-volume endeavor. So far, each book has fallen nicely into two parts, easily [...]
In this edition of Modern Reformation, we're talking about something exciting, something amazing—something at the very heart of the gospel itself. Obedience. Now, you might hear obedience and think, well, that's not very exciting. It's good. But is it good news?
Habakkuk is likely a book you haven’t spent much time in recently, which, to be honest, is quite understandable. Few of us are racing to read, study, or put to memory Habakkuk’s prophecy, not only because it’s a little hard to find but also because its message is heavy, to say the least. [...]
Nietzsche's ideas and his influence on modern secular culture have come under lots of well-deserved criticism from Christians, especially his contribution to our flattened, fractured notion of the self and our contemporary obsession with attempting to invent our own identity and meaning. [...]
"God may pity me, but he could never understand me." Don't we often feel that way, especially when confronted with the darkest parts of the human heart—both in ourselves and others? In this moving and pastorally rich opening presentation [...]
On June 13, 1525, one of the most significant weddings in history took place. Admittedly, it was not as significant as that of Adam and Eve or Joseph and Mary, but it certainly outranked most royal weddings. The guest list was small, and the venue left much to be desired [...]
Joseph of Nazareth, the adoptive father of Jesus, is neglected in theology and biblical studies, but we come by it honestly. His obscurity in the tradition is more or less proportional to his obscurity in Scripture. There, he speaks not a word [...]
In the city of Datong, in Shanxi province in China, archeologists are excavating some six hundred tombs, several of which date back to the Northern Wei period (386 to 534 C.E.). In one of these ancient resting places, a man and woman lie entwined. [...]
Gone are the remnants of the supposed cave that once entombed Christ for three days. One cannot imagine that there once stood a slope over the place where now a shrine stands, encircled during the visiting hours by pilgrims [...]
Children today seem to be caught in the middle of an impossible identity crisis. It’s a maelstrom in which they are simultaneously elevated as paragons of individual invention through mechanisms like gender ideology, yet absolved of personal moral responsibility for their choices. [...]
