Matthew J. Tuininga

The Grace of Discipline

In his classic work, The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer warned Christians in 1930s Nazi Germany against the subtle deceitfulness of what he called cheap grace. “Cheap grace is the…

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Christian Ethics, Protestant and Catholic: 500 Years After the Reformation

The Reformers broke dramatically with the Roman Catholic Church when it came to the doctrines of salvation and ecclesiology. They did not do so with respect to ethics. In fact,…

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Soli Deo Gloria 

The Westminster shorter catechism famously begins with the question, “What is the chief end of man?” Its answer is pithy and to the point: “To enjoy God and glorify him…

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