Set Apart to Die and to Live by Burk Parsons

FROM TABLETALK | May 2010

“When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer was about thirty years old when he penned these words in his classic work The Cost of Discipleship. Eight years later he was executed for his crimes …Read More

The Bravest & Newest World by Andrew Davis

FROM TABLETALK | April 2010

As human imagination conceives of the future, it tends to envisage either dreams or nightmares. The dreams live in the hearts of idealists who suppose that human ingenuity is sufficient to craft a perfect world. The nightmares torment the minds …Read More

He Who Has Ears… by Scott Anderson

FROM TABLETALK | April 2010

Everyone loves a story. Whether young or old, we all enjoy hearing, reading, or seeing a good story unfold. Stories are remarkably powerful things. They stir-up our imaginations and excite our affections. They instruct us and inspire us. They intoxicate …Read More

Something New Under the Sun by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | April 2010

Imagine, if you would, that you are the most powerful person in the world. Now imagine that you are also the richest person in the world. Would your life be fundamentally different? Would everything that is now ordinary about your …Read More

The Christian Club by W. Robert Godfrey

FROM TABLETALK | March 2010

Many American churches are in a mess. Theologically they are indifferent, confused, or dangerously wrong. Liturgically they are the captives of superficial fads. Morally they live lives indistinguishable from the world. They often have a lot of people, money, and …Read More

The Sinkhole Syndrome by Donald Whitney

FROM TABLETALK | March 2010

You know the story. A man has been a believer in Christ for decades. To all outward appearances he’s a man of Christian faithfulness and integrity. He has maintained a reputation as a fine example of public and private …Read More

On Controversy by Keith Mathison

FROM TABLETALK | February 2010

John Newton is best known as the writer of the hymn “Amazing Grace”. Were that all he bequeathed to the church, it would be an incredible legacy. There is another small work by Newton, however, that I believe could be …Read More

An Unpopular Vision by George Grant

FROM TABLETALK | February 2010

Some men’s greatness may be seen in how largely they loom over the movements they launched. But greater men are they whose movements loom large over them — even to the point of obscuring them from view. Gerhard Groote was …Read More

The Gospel Is for the Broken by Rod Rosenbladt

FROM TABLETALK | November 2009

  In this article I want to address a particular problem: What we might do as Christians with those who see themselves as “alumni” of the Christian faith. By that I mean those who once professed that Christ shed His blood …Read More

Playing Your Part by Gene Edward Veith

FROM TABLETALK | October 2009

As seen in other articles this month, the word hypocrisy derives from the Greek term for “playing a part.” The ordinary word for an actor on the stage in Greek drama was hypocrite. In the tragedies of Sophocles or the …Read More

The Coming Kingdom by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | October 2009

The world is full of hypocrites, and the solution to this problem is twofold: If you are more modern, you deal with the gap between your obedience and what you pretend to be by trying harder to be good. You …Read More

To Whom Be the Glory by Robert Barnes

  I’m a confessional Calvinist, but I have the nagging sense that God slipped up when he allowed me to pastor a church. A number of questions go through my mind as I consider God’s decision to allow me …Read More

Hypocrisy in High Places by Iain Campbell

FROM TABLETALK | October 2009

I live and work in a small group of islands just off the northwest coast of Scotland. The Western Isles has a population of about 35,000 people, similar in culture and language, but diverse in religion: the northernpart of …Read More

Shutting Up the Kingdom by Richard Ganz

FROM TABLETALK | October 2009

When people are asked what they think most accurately characterizes the church, a majority replies, “Hypocrisy.” This is a sad commentary on the church. However, we have in many ways earned it. While my subject is missions and hypocrisy, one …Read More

Whitewashed Tombs by Richard Phillips

FROM TABLETALK | October 2009

On March 10, 2008, the New York Times revealed that New York Governor Elliot Spitzer had been caught patronizing a prostitution ring. Two days later, Governor Spitzer appeared chastened before the public as he resigned from office. The story was …Read More