The Crushing Obligation to Keep Doing More and More
The needs seem so urgent. The workers seem so few. If we don’t do something, who will?
Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three... Continue Reading
A Forgotten Fact about the Earliest Christian Movement
One of the central features of the early Christian movement was that they were a people who traveled, and traveled extensively.
So, if you want to recapture your identity as a believer, don’t just think about the future. Look to the past. Remember what Christians have always been: voyagers. We are travelers. As such, take up the invitation of Paul: “Travel with us as we carry out this act of grace that is being ministered by us,... Continue Reading
Words Matter. Definitions Matter.
The Cambridge Dictionary updates the definition of “woman.”
What is happening is not a merely semantic game or the demand that we deny reality. It is the assertion of power. Speaking truth to power—real truth that reflects reality—is thus a term worth appropriating from the left. For it is in our speech, in our speaking, that the first line of resistance to this... Continue Reading
Peace Outside the Church
The world in all its crookedness and depravity is still God’s world.
The presence of the image of God in all human beings is cause for hope. God’s will concerning peacemaking, for both maintaining and mending peace, can be applied even in our workplaces, schools, communities, and digital spaces in the world. We undergo a radical change in becoming Christians. We are born again to a... Continue Reading
Jonathan Edwards and 5 Spiritual Habits for 2023
Let us be more in prayer, more in Scripture, and more focused on Christ this year.
What spiritual habits are you going to develop in 2023? Each year brings new opportunity to grow to be more like Christ. Thankfully, God has left us many examples of godly men and women throughout history who have pursued Him and His glory. Let us learn from such examples what it means to seek and... Continue Reading
3 Ways to Love Like God Does
Though we may be awkward and unremarkable on our own, gathered in the mutual love of the church, we grow in loveliness.
Our loveliness blossoms out of the love of God for us and in us, and it is affirmed and magnified and publicly displayed in the love we have for one another. It stands before the watching world as an invitation: come and see God’s love displayed. Loving the People God Loves What God loves,... Continue Reading
How Calvinism Shapes Christian Ministry: Perseverance of the Saints and the Powerful Promises of God
We who belong to Christ will never be lost by Christ. We who are saved are saved eternally.
It is the strength of the Lord that preserves and keeps us persevering. In this truth, let us also remember that it is “the joy of the Lord that is our strength” (Nehemiah 8:10) and let us remain faithful to the Lord and his people wherever he has placed us. This, ultimately, is how Calvinism... Continue Reading
How These Parents Helped Their Son Reject Transgender Lies and Affirm His Real Identity
Brandon’s parents fought for him. Their story shows how we all can help kids affirm their true identities as born male or female.
Transgender ideology sets up an opposition between the body and an inner sense of being male or female, between physiological facts and subjective feelings. The best counter is a positive Christian worldview that affirms the value of the body and the unity of the human being. From the time “Brandon” was quite young, people would remark... Continue Reading
A Biblical Theology of Peace
The biblical understanding of peace, shalom, expresses wholeness, blessing, and completeness.
Representatives from “every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages” (Revelation 7:9), will open the door so that Jesus might come in to them and eat with them, and they with Him (Revelation 3:20), anticipating that final meal of covenantal peace at the marriage supper of the Lamb (Revelation 19:6–8), when Jesus will usher... Continue Reading
The Beginning of Things Tells You Stuff: Determining Genre
Read any biblical book, be it a letter or a narrative or a history or a compendium of wisdom or a doctrinal treatise, in the same way that you would read any other book of that type.
The Bible is an ancient book, and God speaks through it “in many ways” (Hebrews 1:1). As a result, it’s not always easy to determine genre…A good study bible or special introduction or commentary can go a long way to helping you bridge the gap, but the best way forward is to immerse yourself in the “many times and... Continue Reading
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