Pastor Steve

Sometimes God gives an unbeliever more insight into the lives of Christians than most Christians have. For instance, someone once said to Hannah Whitall Smith, the author of the book, The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life, “You Christians seem to have a religion that makes you miserable. You are like a man with a…

There are two aspects to the cultural mandate in the state of innocence: the task of begetting and the organic multiplication of people and the task of forming a diversity of cultures. Embedded in the creation of humanity is a teleological (purpose) orientation – humanity was meant to spread and cultivate creation in obedience to…

There is an amazing psalm that says, “The heavens belong to the LORD (Yahweh), but the earth he has given to mankind” (Ps.115.16). We have been placed by God’s governing economy to be the resident managers of earth. We are meant to steward the creation, to enhance its beauty, to protect it from danger, to…

When President Obama was in the Whitehouse and the Supreme Court was preparing to release its ruling in the Obergefell case, I wrote about worldview. Specifically addressing the question “What is a Christian Worldview?” Ten years later, we can look back and see diminishing returns when a Christian worldview is being abandoned. Albert Wolter said…

The Church at Antioch was a Church of many races with the dual ministry of Paul and Barnabas to lead it. It was a Church that is closer to today’s churches than any that we have seen so far in Acts. It is here for the first time that the disciples of Jesus Christ were…

We must be rigorous with ourselves. We must not imagine that our poor or nonexistent performance will be excused. In Matthew 24-25 we see the failure of all excuses before God. The man who was given one talent and hid it in the ground explained that he had not done more because he knew his…