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CREC Baptism Numbers Since 2023 & Health Update #6

Too Exhausted to Write Anything, Except to Say Thanks be to God

My Reformed Conversion in College

Why Evangelicals are Allergic to Liturgy

My Exhortation to the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches at the Beginning of our Council Meeting

The Reformed Case for Anointing with Oil

The Counselor as Interpreter

Parenting as Liturgy+Pre-Council Counseling Conference+The Wilderness of Waiting (Cancer Journal #5)

The Book of Joel for Dummies + The Day I Found Out My Cancer Diagnosis (Cancer Diary #4)

What the Detractors Are Saying About the CREC

How To Be Ready to Die According to C.S. Lewis? & Cancer Diary #2

Autobiographical Fragments from my Pastoral Calling, Part 5 + an Audio Sample of Mine from 26 Years Ago + Cancer Notes #1

Autobiographical Sketches of My Pastoral Call, Part 4, Iliad Excursions, and Jayber Crow

Answering the Call to the Pastorate: My High School Days in Pennsylvania, Part 3

Answering my 9-Year-Old’s Question: “Dad, How Did You Decide to Become a Pastor?” -Part 2 & A Personal Update

Answering my 9-Year-Old: “Dad, How Did You Decide to Become a Pastor?” -Part 1

When God Laughs, He Means Business: Meditations on Psalm 2

Where are the Pastoral Candidates for our Churches?

A Review of Young Sherlock by Ezekiel Brito

On Preaching, Shouting, Reading, and Flatterers

Not All Prodigals Come Home: The Blessings of an Ordinary, Non-Prodigal Life + Glen Hansard in his own words before his death

Four Days in the Outer Banks of North Carolina

Building Brotherly Bonds in a Lonely Culture & the Outer Banks of North Carolina

Eight Theses on the Dangers of Marriage

The Eschatology of Anthony Fauci

Why I Write Sermon Manuscripts and a Movie Review

How to Prepare the Church to Deal with Future Crisis

The Way of the Blessed Man: Meditations on Psalm 1

The Most Unexpected Match in World Cup History

The Goodness of Bodily Discipline

Why some men are passive, and how to do something about it

Theology for the People of God in Poetry and Practice

The Federal Vision, Social Media Pugilism and Real Friendship

Why This Country is Better Than Yours!

From Revivalism to Christian Liberty

Racial Animosity is a Counterfeit Liturgy

Why Island of the World is Among my Five Favorite Novels Ever!

An Ode to Soccer

Ten Years at Jubilate Deo and Thoughts on Music as Church Culture

My Online Church & Jubilate Deo Music Camp, 2026

Travel Updates in Weatherford and Lindale Texas (CREC and Summer Sanctus)

CREC doctrines and gate-keeping

Moscow Graduation and Lewis and Clark

Liturgical Scribblings

A Better Case for Infant Baptism + The Quotation Theory on Head-Covering

Pensacola Pride Day and Marriage as a Public Glory

CREC Epiphany Lectures

Parenting as Ritual and Reality + Should I Join CREC church?

Happy Postmils Ruin Everything

You've Got a Friend in Me: Some Thoughts on Relationships

How to Treat Women Like a Chronically Online Sophomore

The Tim Keller Gospel & the Christian Nationalism Gospel+2026 Reading Updates

Best Book of the Year So Far? A Review of Theo of Golden

Al Prayers and Personality + My Trip to Hillsdale College

We Need a New Moral Majority: An Ecclesial Majority + Tyndale Classical Academy in Howell, MI & Christ Church of Livingston County

Greetings from CREC West Michigan

When Saints Depart: The Joy, Burden, and Grief of Pastoral Life+Kuyper and Women+Why Paedocommunion Matters

Why Paedocommunion Matters!

The Catechism of Revivalism and Its Lasting Effects + Central Park + Why It's Good to be a Protestant

On the Growth of the CREC+Our Favorite Family Series

A Pastor-Theologian Manifesto

Christ is Risen Indeed!

What is Holy Saturday (Blessed Sabbath)? + The Church Calendar

The Politics of Good Friday

Maundy Thursday: A New Commandment + Reading in 2026

Holy Wednesday: Spy Day

Holy Tuesday: The Plot to Kill Jesus

Cleaning House: Holy Monday

Blessed Are the Persecuted + Third Day Concert

The Kingdom That Offends the Strong + Through New Eyes Chapter Reviews

The Mercy That Remade You

Strength Under Control and the Hunger for Righteousness

Honorable Poverty and Hopeful Mourning

The Voice from the Mountain

The Upside-Down Kingdom + Biblical Symbolism

The Tomb and the Delay + Sermon Prep + An Ode to Heavy Cream

The Irritation of Folly, the Joy of Wisdom

Shepherding Lips and Storm-Tested Souls + Bluegrass Evening

The Tongue That Leads to Life

Storing Up Wisdom + Dr. Ben Merkle in Pensacola

The Tongue That Builds or Burns + The Abolition of Man Review

Blessings on the Head of the Righteous + Christopher Cross Concert

The Wise Son and the Diligent Hand + Strawbridge Forum in Lancaster, PA

PMOC Exhortation to Athanasius Presbytery

Wisdom for the Lenten Path

Freedom from Anxious Living + Notations

When God Sings Over His People + Visiting D.C.

The Shepherd Who Leads Us Through Lent + Summary of the First Battle of Manassas

Standing on the Right Side of the Day of the Lord

How Long, O LORD? + My Opening Exhortation to the CREC Saints in Washington, D.C.

Exile East of Eden + Bitcoin Interview

The Religion of Comfort + Williamsburg Pictures

When Good Hurts + Jamestown Pictures

Living Before the Face of God

Swallowed by Grace + Jamestown Visit

The Garden We Enter in Lent + Chinook Interview

Incarnate Grace for a Penitential Season

The Sin We Call Small

The Human Broadcast: What Your Anger Reveals + Traveling to the Northeast

The Desert Has No Detours + Brief Reflection on Crime and Punishment

Bread Before the Cross

The Straight Way Through the Wilderness

40-Day Journey: From Desert to Deliverance

Shrove Tuesday: A Feast Before the Fast

Am I a Christian Nationalist? + Interview with Lennox Kalifungwa on Christian Eloquence

Why the Church is More Important Than Ever in the Trump Era

Raising Future Men, and Meme vs. Reading Culture

Are the Jews in Charge of the Porn Industry?

The Church Against the World: When the Music Fades+Personal Updates

The Church Is for the World

The Church To the World

Why the Early Church Would Shock Us

The Liturgical Father: Raising Children in the Covenant

Disciples of the Algorithm: When Edginess Becomes the Thing

The Running Father & the Danger of the Quarrelsome Man

Happy Epiphany! Athanasius Youth Conference & The Name of the Rose

5 Church Resolutions for the New Year!