by ernie | Sep 5, 2019 | Standfast Cast
Ultimately, discipleship always points people to something beyond themselves AND even beyond the person doing the discipling. Throughout the New Testament, Paul repeatedly said, “Follow me, as I follow Christ.” That is, “Look at me, yes. I’ll...
by ernie | Aug 26, 2019 | Standfast Blog
The great Scottish pastor, social reformer, educator, author, and scientist Thomas Chalmers was born on March 17, 1780 at Anstruther on the Fife coast. His father was a prosperous businessman in the town and Thomas grew up as the sixth in a large family of fourteen...
by ernie | Jul 15, 2019 | Standfast Blog
My Dear Twaddle-Tweeze: Good intentions! I’ll never cease to remind you that the road to Perdition lined with these. I realize that ambitious amateur tempters would rather conspire spectacular scandals. But particularly when it comes to...
by ernie | Jul 1, 2019 | Standfast Blog
Like modern art, or an avant garde poem, or the latest haute fashions, secularism has always been hard to define. Though often pronounced with algebraic lucidity, its topsy-turvy logic is often as unintelligible as the dog-Latin of monkish hexameters. In...
by ernie | Jun 10, 2019 | Standfast Blog
If Charles Haddon Spurgeon is justly known as the “Prince of Preachers,” then with equal justice Richard Baxter ought to be considered the “Prince of Pastors.” According to J.I. Packer, Baxter was “incomparable” in his zeal...