The Pastor's Pen is a periodic column devoted to articulating biblical, theological, and practical teaching for God-honoring, Christ-exalting Christian living.
"Race: A Biblical and Theological Perspective" first appeared in ELBC's newsletter, "Foundations," February 1996. It is presented here with minor changes from the original publication....
There are competing idols in our world clamoring for our worship. The sad history of the human race is that it has capitulated to the false worship of false deities. The Old Testament records the pitiful and reprehensible fact that the pagan world indulged in this supreme wickedness, and God's chosen people were also guilty of this sin. Scripture speaks with one voice proh...
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Protestant reformer Martin Luther remarked, "prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness." Luther laid hold of a significant kernel of truth regarding prayer for believers. The failure concerning prayer has its locus in us, not in our gracious God. It is He, after all, who repeatedly summons us, in Scripture, to His throne. Scripture pres...
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From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is an inerrant record of the self-disclosure of the Triune God. The inspired words of the divine deposit reveal to us what God is like and how He interacts with His creatures. In the biblical record of redemptive history, we observe our God's sovereignty, providence, righteousness, grace, love, promises, omnipotence, omnipresence, wisd...
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It is an abiding comfort to Christians to know that God is running the universe. As C.H. Spurgeon wrote, "God's Sovereignty is the pillow upon which the believer rests his head at night." No matter the circumstances we face, or what we see in the world, we are assured from Scripture that God is in charge (Psalms 115:3; 135:6). Believers routinely affirm this truth by asse...
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The year 2020 is history, but it will be archived in our minds for the remainder of our days. It was an extraordinary year that is now in our rearview mirror, yet a question about what God was doing remains. To answer our query, we turn to Scripture. We ask what God was doing in 2020 because Scripture is relentless in asserting the sovereign governance of God over the ent...
Keep Reading "Race: A Biblical and Theological Perspective" first appeared in ELBC's newsletter, "Foundations," February 1996. It is presented here with minor changes from the original publication....
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