Worship and the Word
The Regulative Principle of Worship (RPW) states that we must worship as God prescribes in His word. While this principle is clearly...
top of page
Search
Shawn Young
2 min read
Evolutionary Religion and Chesterton
“Thank God for the New Atheists?”, Dr. Al Mohler spars with Michael Dowd, who recently advocated the rejection of the historical...
Shawn Young
1 min read
How Should We Process Natural Disasters?
Chrysostom, Calvin, and Davies were men of both sense and learning. They knew the natural world operated according to patterns or laws....
Shawn Young
3 min read
Reformed Worship (Part 4)
Hart and Muether point out that there is no contradiction between whether God is pleased by our worship, and how we as worshipers are...
Shawn Young
1 min read
The Temptation of Abstract Purity
“Their mistake is to think that solicitation to abstract purity come from God—abstracted, that is, from the necessity for divine...
Shawn Young
2 min read
Reformed Worship? (Part 3)
Good liturgy necessarily arises out of a proper understanding of the church. But what is a good Reformed liturgy? “It is a liturgy that...
Shawn Young
2 min read
Reformed Worship? (Part 2)
But the Lord has set aside one day in seven as holy to His people. The rhythm of the Christian life is six days of work, and one day of...
Shawn Young
1 min read
The Big Reformed Tent of the PCA
For those of you who have read Tim Keller’s paper (or if you haven’t read it, you can find it here) presented in his discussion at...
Shawn Young
3 min read
Reformed Worship? (Part 1)
With Reverence and Awe by D.G. Hart and John R. Muether 204 pages Phillipsburg: P & R Publishers, 2002 Readers who are a part of the tiny...
Shawn Young
2 min read
Individualism Negating the Individual
Carl Trueman's latest essay is over at Reformation21. I was interested in his point particularly as it informs our worship, and closely...
Shawn Young
3 min read
Apologetics and the Gospel
The Battle Belongs to the Lord by K. Scott Oliphint 206 pages P & R Publishers (2003) Is apologetics a discipline reserved only for...
Shawn Young
2 min read
What Is "Reformed"?
R. Scott Clark argues that churches that confess the historic Reformed documents have strayed from their Reformed roots in theology,...
Shawn Young
1 min read
Is There Refuge?
I’ve recently been reading J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. This work deserves it’s reputation as a lucid argument to...
Shawn Young
1 min read
Comfort in the Face of Judgment
“If consciousness of a great sin weights you down, comfort yourself with this blood of love….No human religion can hold its own in the...
Shawn Young
1 min read
A Key Wrestling Point
In this post, Sean Lucas responds to the recent announcement of a former Federal Vision proponent who has converted to the Catholic...
Shawn Young
2 min read
Reformed Worship and Liturgy
In the Splendor of Holiness by Jon D. Payne 120 pages Tolle Lege Press (2008) As a pastor I am often looking for a brief, highly...
Shawn Young
1 min read
Sermon Prep
Rev. Iain Campbell has an interesting post about sermon prep here. I’m glad I’m not the only one who never feels “ready” to preach a...
Shawn Young
1 min read
Discernment: Doctrine Matters
Albert Mohler blogs about The Shack by William P. Young (no relation to me as far as I’m aware). This novel is immensely popular. Mohler...
Shawn Young
1 min read
How We View Death
Carl Trueman, professor at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, has an interesting post about how we view death. He explores the loss of...
Shawn Young
6 min read
Foundations for Pastoral Ministry
Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work by Eugene H. Peterson 241 pages William B. Eerdmans (1992, originally published 1980) Since we live...
bottom of page