Warhorn Blog Posts

Is there any part of Holy Scripture that presents infancy, womanhood, femininity, and motherhood more beautifully? Such tenderness toward mothers and children is characteristic of the history written by Luke, who was a physician.

Academic freedom has long been hypocrisy, and going forward, it remains untenable.

What does Scripture say about capital punishment? We find that after the Flood, God commands that capital punishment be used against a murderer. He issues the following command to Noah and, though He didn’t need to, God gave us a very important reason for it: “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.” (Genesis 9:6 NASB 1995) This was not a spe...

Here we meet a basic principle of Christian sanctification: hearts matter more than appearances, actions, and words.

When entering the ministry back in 1983, I had Dad’s wise counsel to help my beginnings. His counsel ran the path of short and pithy statements, one of which was “a home visiting pastor makes a churchgoing people.” This came to mind when I was writing yesterday about our graveyard in Rosedale and mentioned visiting our church patriarch, Sam Westra. Taking Dad’s advice, I made it a habit to visit t...

What’s the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard? The word “cemetery” is from the Greek κοιμητήριον (sleeping place) and is simply a place for burying our dead. A graveyard, though, is a kind of cemetery distinguished by being a part of the churchyard surrounding the church-house. When I took our first call to pastor a yoked parish in Wisconsin, our country parish was Rosedale Presbyterian...