First Principles for Bible ReadingThis past week we hosted over 40 pastors, teachers, and leaders from the DC area as well as from Delaware, Maryland, and North Carolina as they came for the Charles Simeon Trust Preaching Workshop on the Gospel of Luke. This week has been filled with Bible training, teaching, and preaching. While Simeon Trust as a ministry is focused on equipping pastors in exposi...

If anyone has spent anytime with me, they know that I have written a fair bit about the priesthood. I have even published a book on the topic. One note that I didn't put in that manuscript, however, begins with the choice of Levi and his backstory in Genesis 34. As I read Exodus recently, I was reminded of this note and the textual connection between Moses and Aaron in that book with the historica...

Virtue is hard to come by these days. When we look out upon our country in our day, moral degeneracy is not only promoted, it has run amok. Just this week, a pastor visiting a local bookstore discovered a book titled Be Gay, Do Crime! Indeed, we are in an age where vice is valued over virtue. When we see this, we can give way to fear as we read John Adams who said, “Our constitution was made only ...

This coming Sunday, September 13, we will begin a new Sunday School class on the Protestant Reformation. I look forward to walking through this period of church history in the months ahead. But before we get there, it’s good to consider why the study of church history is important for the Christian.1. Church history bears witness to the faithfulness of Christ. Christ has declared that he will buil...