• Book Review: How is the Gold Become Dim (Morton Smith)

    In December 1973, Dr. Morton H. Smith was elected the first Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in America. This new denomination of conservative Southern Presbyterians had been formed as the result of a break from the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS). The movement towards a split from the PCUS had been many…

  • Book Review: Fighting the Good Fight (D.G. Hart and John Muether)

    The founding and subsequent growth of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church is the story of a denomination’s sincere desire to maintain faithfulness to the Scriptures and their Reformed summation as contained in the Westminster Standards. It’s a story of how this desire was born, as it were, through a period of intense pangs. D.G. Hart and…

  • A Father Looks at Proverbs 31: Part 1 “The Excellent Wife”

    An excellent wife, who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. Pr 31:10 The writer of this Hebrew poem begins his verse with a rhetorical question: who is able to find an excellent wife? Before hastily providing an answer to the question, its important we determine what is meant by “excellent.” The King…

  • Book Review: Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning

     Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education by Douglas Wilson This is not a book about homeschooling. In fact, Mr. Wilson would likely tell you,  if given the choice between a strong, classical Christian school and homeschooling, to choose the school. Instead, this book is about education. Every parent desires…

  • A Father Looks at Proverbs 31: Introductory

    As a father, my greatest desire is that our three children, all girls, will grow to love Christ more than their own lives. I pray continually for this very thing. However, I understand that this will not happen accidentally. A father cannot expect that his children, boys or girls, will somehow become godly individuals without…

  • Book Review: The Word of God in English

     Fifty years ago, Eugene Nida developed a theory of Bible translation which came to be called dynamic equivalence theory; replacing the contemporary “word-for-word” translation technique with “thought-for-thought” methodology. This theory makes basic assumptions about the Bible and Bible readers. In his book, The Word of God in English: Criteria for Excellence in Bible Translation, Dr.…

  • Inauguration Day

    The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. -Pr 21:1 As my first blog post, I thought I would dwell on the same topic that everyone else is dwelling on today: the inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama. My understanding of blog posts…