The new year brings conflicting thoughts. Since naturally we want good things to come our way, we look to the months ahead with hope for our plans, desires, and dreams. Perhaps they will all come to pass! At the same time, the end of the year provokes reflections of a more wistful, melancholic sort. One…

Sometimes God seems providentially to put a certain book into your hands for you to read. That happened to me with To the Golden Shore. I first saw it on a missions reading list provided by the OPC‘s Committee on Foreign Missions (a committee to which I was recently elected to serve). Not long after that, a…

As sinners, we are masters of self-delusion. And one of our favorite illusions is the idea that we have within ourselves the power and ability to overcome our deepest problems. Why do we flatter ourselves this way? I suppose one reason is our impressive record of achievement as members of the human race. We’ve learned to…