Dear Pastor, Why Am I Seeing So Much More of My Sin as I Grow?
Pastoral application of progressive sanctification.
It is vital for us to remain sensitive to sin. God’s work in sanctifying us is one of the ways in which we can remain assured of his saving work in our lives. This is why, in 2 Peter, we are told to continue to work hard to grow spiritually: “make every effort to supplement... Continue Reading
How “Side B” Ministries Hi-Jack the Great Commission
Any shepherd of the flock ought to be ready to use the rod and chase off these wolves in sheep’s clothing so that the sheep might be protected.
Since Side “B” ministries give false assurances to homosexuals that they can be both gay and Christian. This undermines and corrupts the responsibility of faithful discipleship within the church to help people discover if they really are true disciples of Christ. If a Christian struggling with same-sex attraction homosexual prefers being identified with the LBGTQ+... Continue Reading
“Christians in Syria Need Urgent Help”: An Interview with a Levantine Greek Activist
Turkey wants to expand its territories and carry out an Ottoman imperial revival.
Mainstream media has always claimed they are “moderate rebels” when in fact we know they are neither moderate nor rebels. They are the same militants that beheaded women and children, just rebranded with new names. These people want a theocratic country. Syria is in need of reforms, but they will have to be democratic and... Continue Reading
My Top Ten Books of 2024
If you want to know why the biblical doctrine of humanity is now one of the most critical doctrines under attack in the modern world, you need to take the time to read this book.
Several years ago, Carl Trueman wrote one of the most important books of our generation, ‘The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self’. If you want to understand why the Western world is the way it is today, this is one of the books you have to read (An abridged version was released under the... Continue Reading
What One Chinese Pastor Can Teach You About Suffering Faithfully
Wang quietly embodied so much of what I hear Christians in America today trying to figure out: how to be in the world but not of it.
Wang’s life invites us to ask, What’s the nature of a Christian hero? Does such a person exist? In the creation of heroes, humanity is prone to navel-gazing. Throughout history, men and women have been tempted to make more of each other than they deserve, and it doesn’t serve the persecuted church to put it... Continue Reading
The End of Protestant Retrieval
When we debate difficult questions of human life together, we ought to do so in a consistently Christian way—with due regard for logical precision and conceptual clarity.
A truth-claim regarding (for instance) the simplicity of God is “necessary” in that it is integral to the definition of Him: God would not be God were He not metaphysically simple. On a classical theist account, to be actus purus, without unrealized potentialities, is simply what it means to be God. What this means is that the claims of Protestant... Continue Reading
Fertility Shows Why Christians Must Be Concerned About Political Greatness
The struggles of parenthood appear as nothing when we have great things to do in the political and religious worlds.
The best thing to promote fertility is to promote marriage. This means discouraging ideologies hostile to marriage and promoting healthy religious belief. Ideologies are lullabies, entrancing people to embrace the bright side of cultural decay. James Burnham called liberalism the ideology of western suicide. Among modern Western peoples, feminism and sexual liberation ideologies are our... Continue Reading
Why Does the Gospel of Mark End without Mention of Jesus’s Resurrection?
As Christians, we never move past the cross. Even throughout eternity we will sing, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain!”
Mark’s ending calls us to discipleship. I contend that he intends to use the failure of the male disciples in Mark 14–15 and the female disciples in Mark 16 to remind us both that Jesus graciously uses even imperfect sinners to build his perfect kingdom and that their failures serve to call us to be... Continue Reading
Life in a Fallen World – And in the Next
On being reunited with departed loved ones in the next life.
Our source of comfort isn’t only that we’ll be with the Lord in Heaven but also that we’ll be with one another. Christ is “the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last” (Revelation 22:13, NIV). He alone is sufficient to meet all our needs. Yet God has designed us for relationship not only... Continue Reading
Salvation and the World
Here is a call to worship: Keep Jesus always before your eyes.
Everything in the world—everything in your world—is groaning and travailing under the burden of sin and unbelief. Everything can be improved. Everything needs more of the King’s beauty, goodness, and truth so that it can realize the “very good” possibilities God has invested in it. Your world already shows much evidence of Christ’s rule, but... Continue Reading
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