A Company Liberals Could Love
The political left is expending energy trying to fine, vilify and bring to heel organizations whose commitments they might under other circumstances extol
Insist that for legal purposes there’s no such thing as a religiously motivated business, and you will get fewer religiously motivated business owners — and more chain stores that happily cover Plan B but pay significantly lower wages. Pressure religious hospitals to perform abortions or sex-reassignment surgery (or some eugenic breakthrough, down the road), and... Continue Reading
Mayberry and Othniel
A tectonic cultural shift taking place, but the book of Judges gives relevant insight and proof that “there is nothing new under the sun.”
In Europe, Canada, and America there has always been a non-Christian population. That is not the issue. Rather, the issue here, as in previous generations elsewhere, is that American evangelicals were all too comfortable with an Andy Griffith or a Beverly Hillbillies culture and life. As in the generation of Joshua’s old age, Christian love... Continue Reading
A Portrait of a Godly Mother
The Shunammite woman is indeed an exemplary heroine of faithfulness
The Shunammite woman is a fantastic example of a lady who is an instrument of grace for her family. Her hunger for God leads to the improvement of her husband, son, servant, and village. Have you such a woman in your household? Set her free to serve you and God well. Elijah was a stellar man of... Continue Reading
Will There Be Mulligans in Heaven?
Will there be mulligans and mistakes in heaven? Will everything we do be just right?
So while I do not believe that there will be mistakes on the new heavens and the new earth in the sense that we will have clear minds and bodies that can function without the interferences of sin, I don’t believe everything we do on the first try will be as good as it can... Continue Reading
“Scholars” vs. Scripture: The Battle for Final Authority
Does the survival of evangelical Christianity rest upon the authority of science and scholars or on the accuracy of the claims of Scripture?
Whether he knows it or not Dr. Giberson has surfaced an issue upon which we agree: This is a matter of authority. Who will have the final authority? God’s divinely given Word or an ill-defined company of “scholars?” While Giberson is alarmed at the prospect of Christianity losing “many of its scholars” he’s rather sanguine... Continue Reading
Jesus and the Church
Jesus mentions the church, the ekklēsia, only twice
The New Testament church looks nothing like an organization built along lines of affinity, unless we are talking about affinity for Christ. Many of the problems with which the Apostles and the epistles are dealing in the New Testament arise precisely because of the diversity of age, class, and ethnicity of the members of the... Continue Reading
Where Does Reformation Begin?
We think others need to change, but we are the ones who need to be fixed first, to repent and confess our sins; change begins individually.
If reformation is going to happen in the church today it must begin with reformation in our hearts. When we divide over issues, each side believes its arguments have more veracity and necessity. These arguments claim to find scriptural, confessional, or constitutional warrant. Modern automobiles have built into their braking system a warning sound... Continue Reading
A Different Kind of Millennial Problem
Some of the reasons I believe millennials have been drawn to our church
“We do not wish to be more conservative, or more liberal, than the Bible. If God had wanted to add things to the Bible or take away hard truths, He would have done so. We have exactly what we have for the most perfect of reasons: the loving providence of God. Neither pharisaical additions nor... Continue Reading
Young, Restless and… Nietzschean?
Ghostwriting is lying, and plagiarism is stealing, and there seems to be a lot of it going around
“For some time now I have been harping on and on about the corrupting effects of celebrity culture on conservative evangelicalism. I think I was wrong: we are not dealing these days with mere celebrities; the ethical transgressions we are witnessing would indicate that we are actually dealing with a form of evangelical Nietzscheanism whereby... Continue Reading
Seven Good Reasons to Stop Breaking the Sabbath Right Now
If you are consumed with secular activities and unwilling to devote merely one day a week to God, you have every reason to be concerned with the state of your soul
“At a time when the Christian church is crying out for more and better leaders, an entire generation of young men and women are infantilizing themselves by not setting the Lord’s Day apart. They constantly choose secular activities over God and their spiritual growth is stunted. For the sake of your church, stop breaking the... Continue Reading
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