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  You are A Sinner!

  Well, so am I.  As Christians we don’t often forget the problem of sin, we are usually very keen at pointing out sin and sinners around us. Like the Corinthians, our problem is not that we forget we are surrounded by sinners, but that we forget we ourselves are sinners. However, this necessary bad news [...]

• The Vision of Mission in the Public Square

  Abraham Kuyper had a remarkable vision for mission in the public square in Western life. Let’s review the vision. The key to understanding this whole vision is to understand western culture from the standpoint of the gospel rather than the gospel from within the presuppositions of modernity. In other words, the worldview baggage that we [...]

• Jesus is Lord. So What?

  Continuing a series about Abraham Kuyper and his influence. Missionary theologian Lesslie Newbigin commented in 1996 that the “Reformational, Kuyperian tradition has obviously been at work long ago spelling out concretely in the various spheres of society what it means to say, ‘Jesus is Lord.’” So what is the Reformational Kuyperian tradition? Some today have [...]

• I Brew because Jesus is Lord

  I was a 23 year old seminary student when I first read about Abraham Kuyper. After I heard about the man, I began reading his works. It was an intellectual spring time. Kuyper was a man in love with Jesus and the Gospel yet he was also a preacher, politician, journalist, statesman, and theologian. Kuyper’s [...]