Gentle Reformation

Gentle Reformation

speaking truth gently

"May my teaching drop as the rain... like gentle rain upon the tender grass" Deuteronomy 32:2

  • Home
  • About
  • Authors
  • Search
  • Support Us
Subscribe

They shall be as though I had not cast them aside.

May 31, 2023

If you were to seek to summarize Scripture’s long story in but a few words, I believe you would find that exile and restoration would be central to its theme and message.

Timothy McCracken Timothy McCracken

Theoretical-Practical Memorial Day

May 29, 2023

Here are some thoughts on Memorial Day that I sent to my congregation this morning: Memorial Day became popular after the First World War (it started after the Civil War) as graves of

Nathan Eshelman Nathan Eshelman
comfort

Incomparable Comfort

May 24, 2023

The only – the only – thing that can satisfy the soul in these sorrows is the faithful promise of God to undo these calamities into the perfection of His joy.

Kit Swartz
Fear

Fear is a Function of Worship

May 23, 2023

The concept "what we fear is what we worship" is a foundational reality. But what does that even mean?

Keith Evans Keith Evans

Who is Michael in Revelation?

May 22, 2023

I am currently preaching an expository sermon series through the entire book of Revelation. This has proven to be an enormously rewarding task, not only for my congregation but also for me. Our

Matthew Everhard Matthew Everhard
heaven

Jesus can’t wait to see you either, Tim

May 19, 2023

It’s not unusual for us to think of the believer’s desire to be with Jesus. But how often do we think of Jesus’ desire for us to be with him?

Stephen Steele Stephen Steele

3GT Episode 287: We Don't Need No Education?

May 18, 2023

Pink-Floyd protested, with deliberate grammatical incongruity, against bad school systems. As they said, we don't need just another brick in the wall. But what should the education of our children look like? One

Gentle Reformation Gentle Reformation
discouragement

Serving God in Unglamorous Places

May 16, 2023

Lentil fields need defended because God's people need fed. And because once you lose them to the Philistines, it's very hard to get them back again.

Stephen Steele Stephen Steele

Leading with Bold Humility

May 15, 2023

This article originally appeared on Ligonier's website. “Sons of Thunder.” Surely any Reformed pastor or elder would love to belong to the club with that name bestowed on them for their bold stand

Barry York Barry York
humility

Seeing Jesus in an Unexpected Place

May 10, 2023

You cannot pronounce her name. Our friends and family simply call her “Ba” which means “Ma’am.” No one knows her birthday; her mother died before she was two years old.  She has

Vanessa Le Vanessa Le

3GT Episode 286: Navigating the Transgender Minefield

May 09, 2023

Thankfully, all three guys are back behind their mics for this episode! After catching up with one another, they jump right into the topic of the day. The transgender movement. What are Christians

Gentle Reformation Gentle Reformation

Polity Matters (Part 2)

May 09, 2023

Being almost 7 foot tall and 350 pounds, I live as part of the 1%. I walk the earth as a giant. This gives me a unique perspective on how life is to

Kyle E. Sims Kyle E. Sims
Church Planting

The Day of Small Things

May 05, 2023

Convinced I had good reasons, I told my dear friend Rhett Dodson that I was not interested in planting a church. I’ve been thinking about that conversation this past week as May

Lee Hutchings Lee Hutchings
Creation Sabbath

Sensible Sabbath-Keeping

May 04, 2023

I spent yesterday evening, on the recommendation of Carl Trueman, reading a delightful little book on Natural Law, by David Haines and Andrew Fulford. Before I begin, I have two confessions to make:

Andrew Kerr Andrew Kerr

The Confession & Hard Providences

May 03, 2023

I can imagine the widow of Nain walking beside the casket of her son, her only son. Her support now gone, she trembles from the aching loss and the fear of insecurity. Or

Jeffrey A Stivason Jeffrey A Stivason

3GT Episode 285: The Necessity of Church Membership

May 03, 2023

Finally, the guys are back in the recording studio! Well, at least two of them are. After their usual banter, they get down to the task at hand as they discuss the necessity

Gentle Reformation Gentle Reformation

Pastors' Wives and Burdens

May 02, 2023

The following article is a guest post by Rebecca VanDoodewaard, author of Uprooted: A Guide for Homesick Christians, Your Future ‘Other Half’: It Matters Whom You Marry, and Reformation Women: Sixteenth-Century Figures Who

Guest Author

LEARNING TO THRIVE

April 29, 2023

At the Bible studies in the prison chapels where I teach, the next verses at which we will look are these: I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to

Timothy McCracken Timothy McCracken
Revitalization

A Stump with Its Roots in the Ground: The Fulton Story

April 26, 2023

The Reformed Presbyterian Church in Fulton, New York is experiencing heavy pruning and new growth under the tender and skillful hand of our Vinedresser.

Kit Swartz
Suffering and God's purposes

From Suffering to Simplicity

April 25, 2023

Hosea 6:1 says "Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us". Here a wife and mother speaks of the Lord's purposes in her suffering.

Keith Evans Keith Evans

If Predestination, Why Evangelism?

April 24, 2023

One of the questions that I receive as a Reformed minister from those outside of our theological tradition is this: "If predestination is true, why should we evangelize?" Superficially, the question makes sense

Matthew Everhard Matthew Everhard
John the Baptist

What did Elizabeth mean?

April 20, 2023

I was reflecting this morning on the prophetic greeting given to Mary when the unborn infant John leapt in his mother's womb. What did Elizabeth believe? Elizabeth believed that Mary had acted with

Andrew Kerr Andrew Kerr

Walk Wisely

April 17, 2023

Why is our nation unraveling at the seams? Why is the social perversion of transgenderism being hoisted on us with missionary zeal wherever we turn? Why is there so much division over politics,

Gentle Reformation Gentle Reformation
Marriage

An Unfaithful View of Marriage

April 15, 2023

. . . what isn't as obvious to us is just how pervasively sexual cruelty is preached and taught in our circles.

Rut Etheridge III Rut Etheridge III

Preternatural vs. Supernatural

April 14, 2023

It may be that we use the word "supernatural" all too loosely. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) made a three-fold distinction between the categories of natural, preternatural, and supernatural which I think

Matthew Everhard Matthew Everhard
Gentle Reformation © 2023
Latest Posts Facebook Twitter Ghost