This Isn’t Going to Be As Easy As It Looks by Keith Mathison

FROM TABLETALK | October 2011

I have an old newspaper comic strip in my desk that I cut out years ago (Mr. Boffo, for those who are interested in such things). I saved it because I think it’s funny. In the top left corner …Read More

The Devil Is Not in the Details by Kevin DeYoung

FROM TABLETALK | May 2011

It may have sounded prophetic at one point, but now it’s rather prosaic. Everyone knows (or is supposed to know) that individualism is bad. An emphasis on the individual — such a common theme in the West — has been blamed …Read More

Not One Of, but the One by Kevin DeYoung

FROM TABLETALK | April 2011

There is one foundational question each of us must face. By “foundational,” I don’t mean it is the only question we must answer. What I mean is that this question is so important that if you get this one …Read More

A Relegated Gospel by Burk Parsons

FROM TABLETALK | February 2011

Dear Wormtongue, Before we get to the primary reason for our letter, we want to begin by commending you for the most excellent job you’ve done in your well orchestrated effort to convince your patient to keep his faith …Read More

What Is the Goal of Becoming a Christian? by R.C. Sproul Jr.

It is my contention that we spend far too little time thinking through issues of teleology, the study of end or purpose or design. We prefer to leave these questions unexamined, and thus move through our lives less than deliberately …Read More

Writing Checks Your Faith Can’t Cash by R.C. Sproul Jr.

We, these United States are in what is, for us, hard times. Foreclosures abound. Unemployment is high. And inflation may well be warming up in the bullpen.  That said, I remain somewhat surprised at the news today that a particular …Read More

Overcoming Doubt by Scott Devor

FROM TABLETALK | November 2010

I began my college years ready to conquer the world for Christ. The reality of my journey, however, tells quite a different story. College, for me, was a roller coaster of peaks and valleys — from incredible joys to the most …Read More

Christ Our Church by Kim Riddlebarger

FROM TABLETALK | October 2010

There are a number of Old Testament passages that figure prominently in the New Testament. In Galatians 3:10–14, several of them are quoted by the apostle, and he uses these Old Testament passages as proof texts for the …Read More

Unqualified Christians by Burk Parsons

FROM TABLETALK | October 2010

Words mean things, and, if we’re not careful, words can easily die the death of one, two, or a thousand qualifications. As editors, we often deliberate the use of words in their contexts and the appropriate uses of qualifiers …Read More

Grace Transforms Everything by Sean Michael Lucas

FROM TABLETALK | October 2010

In our town, a church just went through a rebranding effort as part of their relocation to a new building in a different section of town. Their logo and signage are beautiful and well conceived. One sees their stickers on …Read More

A Child’s Call to Conversion: Faith as a Christian Mark by Tedd Tripp

FROM TABLETALK | October 2010

The clear desire of all Christian parents is the spiritual wellbeing of their children. We want our children to be saved, to be part of the company of the redeemed. We yearn for the blessing of God’s covenant grace …Read More

Justification by Death? by R.C. Sproul

FROM TABLETALK | October 2010

In the sixteenth century, Christendom underwent one of the most extensive and serious schisms in its history. The chief article that caused the controversy to end in division was the doctrine of justification by faith alone. The Protestant Reformation was …Read More

Joseph’s Faith in Death by Kim Riddlebarger

A key figure in the closing chapters of the book of Genesis, Joseph is known for several things: his “coat of many colors,” being sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, and his remarkable ability to interpret the dreams of …Read More

Repentance and Reformation by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | June 2010

The Protestant Reformation is called the Reformation for a good reason. It is not called the First Reformation or Reformation II, as if they happen every so often. I have never been asked, when referencing the Reformation, “Of which Reformation …Read More

Making Molehills Out of Mountains by R.C. Sproul

FROM TABLETALK | May 2010

The crisis regarding the doctrine of justification that provoked the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century has not yet been resolved. Thus, the Reformation is by no means over. The dispute over justification that split the church back then threatens …Read More