According to the 2020 American Worldview Inventory from Arizona Christian University, half of Americans believe that “if a person is generally good, or does enough good things during their life, they will “earn” a place in Heaven.   Earlier this week, while explaining his efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, President Trump said:... Continue Reading

Preaching apologetically is to preach with the realization that we are proclaiming a message that is true (we are making a truth claim) and that this truth claim is grounded in particular historical events—the doing and dying of Jesus.   “Like A Lion” You may have heard the quip from the ever-quotable Charles Spurgeon: “The... Continue Reading

Confronted by an intellectual world for which they are not prepared, Christian college students are leaving behind their faith in worrying numbers.   Well, it just happened for the third time. This past week, I dropped off my last child at college. As might be expected, there were lots of emotions. Excitement, nervousness, fear. And... Continue Reading

Live out your love for God in more faithful obedience to all His commands, and be different, not in an offensive or combative way, neither in a snooty or condescending way, but in a loving way through which people see the light of Christ and the glory of your heavenly Father in your good works... Continue Reading

A letter, signed by the head of the Anglican Church of Pakistan, bishops, and officers of the Church of Pakistan, stated that the appointment of an open homosexual feeds hostile narratives in a country like Pakistan, where homosexuality is illegal and Christians are an often-persecuted minority.   The chorus of concern about the appointment of... Continue Reading

Oneism tells us that the answers are within. We need the honesty to say that the problem is within, and that the Creator alone can redeem the beyond-self-repair brokenness of his creatures. Sugarcoating the bitter reality of sin causes the good news of Christ’s saving work to ring hollow and meaningless.   How do we... Continue Reading

As we grieve, we also hope. We both lament and anticipate. We cry and we wait. We weep yet with expectation. We sorrow yet we hold on, knowing with hope that one day, our great Savior will redeem every tear, every sadness, and every sorrow.   In many ways before losing my son to cancer,... Continue Reading

Although we are low, although we are small, although we’re lower than the angels, God has given us dominion over all these things, and that should lead us to the conclusion of the psalm: God’s greatness. “Oh LORD, our Lord. How majestic is your name in all the earth!”   Read the Passage Let’s take... Continue Reading

“Were this dread specter of a society totally engineered by the state to materialize further, a newly radicalized America would take its place next to a long-radicalized China, and together, these two autocracies, one soft and one hard, would tower over humanity and the world as a two-headed superpower despotism…”   Marxism and related ideologies... Continue Reading

In ancient Israel, a fool would mock the guilt offering, while the upright would delight in the acceptance that it established between them and both God and their neighbor. The principle is the same for us today. How do we respond to the message of the cross? Is it folly to us, or is it... Continue Reading