Written by Jane Roach, (God’s Mysterious Ways) Who is in charge? This is the fundamental question that the Serpent posed to Eve and to every person since Eden. This question is in the forefront of our minds even when we are young. When one of my grandsons was three years old, his mother left him …

Written by Iain Duguid: Song of Songs (Reformed Expository Commentary) Part of the difficulty of the Song of Songs comes from the fact that it is a song, and therefore poetry. Poetry is the art of condensation: expressing maximum meaning in the minimum number of words. As a result, poetry is often more evocative than explicative. …

Written by Iain Duguid: Song of Songs (Reformed Expository Commentary) Is Solomon the hero of the song? Many fine commentators think so, both among those who follow the allegorical or typological model and among those who follow the literal model. The opening superscription might seem to point clearly in that direction. [1] Isn’t the greatest …

By Scott Christensen   Trying to grasp the theological conundrum of God’s sovereignty and human free will is like pitting Batman against Superman. A standoff seems inevitable. Surely one of the two must be sacrificed. Historically, Arminians and others have answered this dilemma by positing a version of free will known as libertarianism, which sacrifices a …

Written by Anthony Carter (Black and Reformed, 2nd ed.) A Common Heritage It has been said of the United States and Great Britain that we are people separated by a common language. Similarly, it could be said of the distinctive black and white churches in America that we are a people separated by a common …