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Reflections as a second-generation Korean-American Presbyterian minister journeying on the margins between two cultures.

Though civil government suppresses wickedness in the world to some degree, it can never provide salvation.

It is essential to be concerned about both the head (sound doctrine) as well as the heart (the life of faith).

Our understanding of the reality of Adam affects our understanding of sin, of redemption, and of the Redeemer.

It is by having the word of Christ dwell in us richly that churches may escape being a mess and become the radiant body of Christ as God intended.

The best hymns of the historic Church, modeled on the Scriptures themselves (especially the Psalms) are rich with godly experience, but experience arising directly and explicitly in view of the mercies of God in his Son. 

By God's providence, common grace, and natural law, there exist wholesome and virtuous aspects of human culture despite the total depravity of humankind.

Far from being suspicious, we should welcome any ecumenical consensus that emerges out of the clear biblical testimony to God’s justification of the ungodly by imputing their sins to Christ and Christ’s righteousness to them through faith alone. However, the consensus that seems to be emerging in our day, as in other eras, seems to find its core sympathy in a more synergistic (Arminian and Roman Catholic) framework. 

Maintaining a proper definition of the works of the law means the difference between justification and condemnation, heaven and hell.