Nearly thirty years ago I asked my pastor this question:  "What is the church?"  He gave such a convoluted answer I left him in a state of confusion.  After four years of Bible college, three years of seminary, one year of post graduate study, I found that most professing Christians do not understand the meaning, purpose, mission and ministry of the church.  So I wrote a couple of books to help Christians understand the question:  "What is the church?"   THe first one entitled "The god of the...
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Urgency is the word that describes my writing agenda at the present time.  Each day is one less day I have to get my thoughts together, get them on paper, and make them available, not only for the present time, but also for some future time, D.V.  Since a culture represents a way of life, I want to say a few words about our present cultural situation and the need of cultural recovery.

Cultural recovery means a recovery of truth. When I use the word truth, I have in mind a conceptual idea tha...

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More than half of my life has been occupied with reading books.  Education is about reading, comprehension, and application of the acquired knowledge.  I'd like to share a little information about the need for theological education in the contemporary church.  I'll use the concepts used during the Puritan era in America so you will see the difference in the process used by the modern seminaries.

The English Reformation during the 17^th century was a struggle for ecclesiastical uniformity.  The ...
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Everyday we are confronted and seduced by all sorts of "isms" in our modern culture. An "ism" is, of course, any particular world and life view. The letters "ism" attached to the end of a word, simply represent a philosophy of life or the way a person thinks about the world or how one relates to the world.

I devote much of time writing and editing Christian books, especially biblical exposition.  I find myself challenged by many of the world views as our culture shifts from the modern to the p...

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We all have those milestones - some seemingly insignificant and others we regard as very significant - but we all have events in life that we remember. I have seen many milestones in my life. The most important event was when I came to a knowledge of the saving grace of Jesus Christ and trusted Him for eternal life. The day I married the most wonderful woman on earth (another man will, no doubt, make the same claim for his wife) was and remains extremely important to me. Remember milestones -...
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J. Gresham Machen said, "The absence of doctrinal teaching and preaching is certainly one of the causes for the present lamentable ignorance in the church." Dr. Machen went on to say that "doctrine is intellectual, and Christians are generally anti-intellectual.  Doctrine is ivory tower philosophy, and they scorn ivory towers. . . It is a fundamental, theoretical mistake of practical men to think that they can be merely practical, for practice is always the practice of some theory" (Education...

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