You Need to Know What Is Happening in Nigeria
The violence has only increased since 2020. Attacks keep coming with no end in sight.
Reporting on violence against Christians in Nigeria is slim. Christianity Today has covered some attacks. The BBC did a story in 2022. Newsweek recently published an opinion piece. It is difficult to find reports or stories of persecution in Nigeria. Christians are being killed in Nigeria, and few people are even noticing. The United States... Continue Reading
The Beauty of Divine Simplicity
Christian theologians embrace divine simplicity because it is biblical. It also invites us to trust in His unity, share His sufficiency, and love all of Him.
We cannot rank the divine persons; they are distinct from each other but not divided from each other. They are not three parts that add up to a single godhead. John Calvin understood the name God to be “the one simple essence, comprehending three persons.” In our chaos we can come to a God in... Continue Reading
An Important Chapter That Calvin Added to the Second Edition of His ‘Institutes’
On the Christian Life: A New Translation is a foretaste of the forthcoming new translation of Calvin’s 'Institutes', several years in the making, to be published by Crossway.
These chapters illustrate clearly that Calvin’s aim in all his theology was not just to inform the mind but to form the heart through the mind. “The gospel . . . is not a doctrine of the tongue but of life. It is not grasped merely by the intellect and memory like other disciplines, but... Continue Reading
Faith and Justification in the Life of Infants
Our covenant children must close with Christ, upon which the assurance of salvation through a good conscience toward God can be established and new life enjoyed!
Although I am of the mind that it is normative for covenant children to be born again and brought forth as the fruit of the new creation by the intelligible Word that is accompanied by even minimal understanding, whenever the Word raises sinners unto life it is always accompanied by the operative work of the... Continue Reading
The Lord’s Aid
I picked up 'Table Talk' and read. I sat down and thanked the Lord for my wife.
Brothers, if God has come to your aid and given you a wife, then take the opportunity to thank Him for her and then thank her. She enables you to do more. She brings a peaceful space to a world in chaos. She loves your children, and she loves you. Godliness adorns her and there... Continue Reading
Why Millennials Aren’t Having Children
Berg and Wiseman’s attempt to convince their audience of the goodness of children remains vital.
Berg and Wiseman deserve praise for unveiling the breakdown of the dialectic of motherhood and for attempting to salvage motherhood’s reputation. But their focus on de Beauvoir and the feminist tradition does not shed light on our emergency’s deepest roots. To do that, we must go further than Berg and Wiseman and look beyond the... Continue Reading
An Anti-culture of Nothingness
About the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics.
If queers mocking the Lord’s Supper and a decapitated singing head are the things that France—or at least her officer class—consider to represent her, then things have surely taken a most dark turn. “This is France,” tweeted President Emmanuel Macron. I hope he was exaggerating. As to the lack of intent to cause offense, it... Continue Reading
Evening, Then Morning
Friends, night comes before day. Struggle before hope. Death before life.
It doesn’t really matter whether you think the day starts as your head hits the pillow or when you wake but recognising that we start with sleep and that joy comes in the morning can profoundly reshape the way you visualise your weeks and years. This is the view of life of the Bible: hope... Continue Reading
A Civilizational Suicide Note on the Seine
What happened on Friday night in Paris was a globally televised dismantling and mockery of one of the core symbols of Western civilization, as a manifestation of France’s national character.
What does the leadership of these nations consider to be their nations’ highest values? The goals to which they aspire? In France, as in so much of the West, the general answer is: inversion, which is what critical-theory academics mean when they speak of “queering” something. It means to turn the meaning of something inside-out,... Continue Reading
Should a Christian Get Cremated?
Getting cremated is not a sin; it doesn’t keep us out of heaven – but it can and often does obscure our Christian witness.
A Christian burial service offers you a chance to preach the gospel to your loved ones from beyond the grave. It will press eternal truths directly upon tender hearts. It will preach gospel hope directly into open ears. Why would any believer pass on such an opportunity? Scattering your ashes off the dock at the... Continue Reading
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