If You Expect Fruit Without a Tree, You’re Nuts
We can't be good people without being God people first
We equate love with indifference to sin when the Bible’s logic is exactly the opposite. The cross is the fullest expression of God’s love not because it shows God’s indifference to sin, but because it shows God’s holy hatred toward sin and his willingness to pay for it himself. That’s love. At the end of... Continue Reading
Why the Afterlife Bores Us
Too many Christians see the hope of resurrection life as a capstone on their lives now
If we miss this, then we become just like those with no hope. We talk about our “bucket lists” of what we have to do before we’re gone since “you only live once.” We worry about our future and we nurse grudges because we fear our lives can be ruined by circumstances instead of by... Continue Reading
Help Save the Ones Around You
An entire industry is rising up to detect genetic anomalies much earlier in pregnancies. And they aren’t doing it to improve the care of those unborn babies.
When parents hear this news they are immediately assaulted. Sinful impulses along with the father of lies and the culture conspire together and pressure them to make a quick, fatal action. Will you stand in the gap for that baby? Before a young couple is faced with the hard news of disability, will they see... Continue Reading
If Jefferson Were a Secular Humanist and Not a Theist, He’d Have Written “We Hold These Truths…”
Thomas Jefferson, something of a “bare theist” or “Christian rationalist” wrote the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. But how would it have read had he been a secular humanist instead? As charitably as possible, here’ s my educated guess: We hold these truths to be good opinions of men; that all men should be... Continue Reading
The Introverted Evangelist
If you have introverts in your church, empower them in the ways God has made them.
Don’t let the introvert use their design as a crutch for mission. “God didn’t make me that way” is a crutch. Instead, show them what mission could look like. Find another introvert, or functional extrovert, that can aid them in steps of what mission might look like for them. Don’t just tell them; have someone... Continue Reading
From an Old Creation to a New Creation, by the Triune God and for His Glory
The relationship between creation and redemption
So the Bible goes from an old creation by the triune God for His glory to a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17; 2 Pet. 3:13; Rev. 21:1). It goes from the old creation headed-up by the first Adam that was stained an infected by sin to a new creation headed-up by the last Adam (1... Continue Reading
Homeschooling: A Fundamental Human Right?
What is at stake with the German homeschooling family and their request for asylum
It is not “homeschooling,” per se, that is a fundamental human right. What is fundamental, however, is the right of parents to raise their children according to their consciences, without interference from the state. The Obama administration hopefully has no inclination to infringe upon this right in America, but in this case they obviously have... Continue Reading
Stop Refereeing Your Preschoolers!
Handle sibling conflict in a way that leads to kids keeping the peace
With my own preschoolers, I began by teaching them to overlook the offense, talk the issue over, and then get help. I first introduced conflict resolution to my children during a quiet moment when they were receptive listeners. We talked about their usual conflicts: toy-grabbing, shouting or throwing game cards. I explained that when a... Continue Reading
Non-Believers Taking College Campuses by Storm
Secular groups on college campuses are proliferating
The Secular Student Alliance is essentially a support network for the autonomous atheist, agnostic, and humanist student groups that choose to be its affiliates. The rapid growth of the SSA is analogue to the general growth of the American secular movement. Atheist groups were once fringe organizations that didn’t get along. That began to change... Continue Reading
Taking Worry Captive
God knows we worry and speaks and ministers to us in our anxiety
God has something more to offer us than a counseling seminar on worry. What we learn is that worry not just a personal problem with which we wrestle. Worry is an adversary of the kingdom that Jesus is teaching about. It is a red flag, a warning siren, alerting us to kingdom conflict. God... Continue Reading
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