Jeff Meyers

Continued from Part 1 By arresting, torturing, and killing Jesus, the authorities thought that they were securing well being and peace aga...

This is a thoughtful post by Bill Evans from his blog the Ecclesial Calvinist. A while back my friend Anthony Bradley posted an insightful...

Sometimes it's hard to categorize stuff.  Is it about guns and shooting or theology and the Bible?  In this case it's both. I hesi...

We are too used to reading the Gospels’ stories of Jesus’ arrest, trial, condemnation, and death from a devotional perspective and so we mi...

On Interviews & Testimonies, Part VI Continued from Part V Q.  Should these young children vote?  If they are full communing members...

For years I've complained that churches don't teach the Bible.  That seminaries don't effectively teach Bible content!  That end...

On Interviews & Testimonies, Part V Continued from Part IV Q. Doesn't admitting young children violate the Westminster Standards...

Continued from Part III Questions About Interviewing Young Children Let me take some time now to answer some common questions.  Remember...

Continued from Part II. It's been so long since I wrote the first two essays on this topic that I had to go back and read them again t...

In his Introduction to Christian Liturgy Senn has a quick, but fascinating summary of the development of lectionary readings: No complet...

Part II noted how Christ's vicarious suffering is a model for Christian behavior, especially for the ministry.  Jesus suffered and died...

James Dobson has used the Newtown shooting to call for national repentance .  But Peter Wehner thinks t hat's all wrong . I'm not ...

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our ha...

I ended Part I wondering why books on the pastoral ministry typically don't include a chapter with a title like "Pastoral Care Thr...

"Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of ...

I've preached through all four Gospels.  It took me 16 years of morning sermons to go through them all paragraph by paragraph.  After fi...

One of the lectionary readings for the second Sunday of Advent was Malachi 3:1-4.  The prophet prophesies that the Lord will "suddenly ...

Calvin: "I call it a private mass whenever there is no communion among believers in the Lord's Supper, even if a large crowd of peo...

Without an ontologically independent Trinity, one cannot properly conceive of God’s relation to creation.  The differentiated Triunity of Go...

The Good News is not that God made some external determination to forgive man, superficially exercised his divine will, waved a disintereste...