The Tale of Two Fig Trees
Jesus' parables demonstrate how He came to bring judgment upon His enemies and salvation to His people.
The Jews had borne no fruit for their God. The Church would become like a fig tree in summer, ready at any moment to burst forth with the most luxuriant blooms to feed the nations. The Jews of that first century, all who rejected Christ, would be thrown into the fires. The Church, in that... Continue Reading
Conservative Presbyterians Lay Out Why Mainline Cousins Are Losing Members: “Supernatural Battle”
The liberal Presbyterian Church USA has approximately 700,000 fewer members than in 2012.
The Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA)…made headlines in October when its Office of General Assembly announced that it would be adding a “nonbinary/genderqueer” option to its official church statistics in a push to be “inclusive,” according to a press release. The mainline denomination is theologically liberal and ordains women as well as practicing members of the... Continue Reading
Harvard on the Way Down
Excellence today at Harvard has taken a back seat to "wokeness."
Harvard today is at a crossroads. What it does next will impact the rest of American higher education, the nation, and the world in many ways. President Bacow has announced that he is stepping down in June. A presidential search committee is looking for a successor. Much is at stake. Harvard University has consistently ranked #1... Continue Reading
The Problem of Theological Illiteracy
An inadequate knowledge of God causes us to worship not the true God as revealed in Scripture but a god our minds create, which is the definition of idolatry.
Christendom in America has been steadily declining for decades, with the views espoused by many who claim to be Christians straying further and further from pure orthodoxy. Like the audience of Hebrews, the church in America needs the pure spiritual milk that can only come through Scripture. For though by this time you ought... Continue Reading
Indescribable Descriptives
A songwriter wishes to draw Christians to encounter the beauty of God through poetic descriptions.
Talented songwriters can do better. It is not as if we don’t have an inspired songbook to show us how it’s done. Let’s mine the Word of God and the world of God for analogies that will fire and inspire the Christian imagination to rightly know and encounter our infinite God. Don’t use adjectives... Continue Reading
Covid Added to the Childhood Vaccine Schedule: No Science, No Rationality, No Morality
Mandating these injections with very real harms and liffle-if-any benefit for children is indefensible.
The addition of Covid vaccines to the childhood immunization schedule legalizes mandates imposed by left-wing school districts at the local level, while shielding companies like Pfizer from liability, ensuring that no amount of harm caused by the vaccines will cut into their profits. In a ghastly new crime against America’s children, particularly those in... Continue Reading
Letters to An Agnostic # 1—God is a Person
God’s existence is only a fraction of the really important question.
To know if God exists, you have to begin dealing with him as a person. As in, “God, if you do exist, I would like to know you”, or “Deep down, God, I sense you exist, but I admit I do not want that to be true.” If there is no one on the other... Continue Reading
Remembering Who You Are Matters; How We Emphasise What We Are Matters More
If we’re fundamentally righteous and holy, united to Christ and indwelt by the Holy Spirit, won’t we be moved to acts that are the kind of things you’d expect righteous and holy people to do?
Whilst we still sin and thus evidently are still sinners, we are more fundamentally holy and righteous in the sight of God, children adopted into Jesus’ sonship, indwelt and empowered by the Holy Spirit…When we remember and recall that is who we truly are now, I suspect we will be encouraged into living in line... Continue Reading
The Modern Myth of the Secular State
People Reacting against “Theocracy” Should Really Look in the Mirror
As Francis Schaeffer taught, if there is no God above the state, the state becomes its own god. Again, it is not whether there will be a theocracy, but which one will we live under. NBC’s Chuck Todd recently devoted a Meet The Press segment to what he called “Rising Theocracy” with the apparent intention to first, scare our pants... Continue Reading
Jesus and Apocalyptic Imagery
The key to understanding the Biblical apocalyptic genre is found right in the pages of Holy Scripture.
The apocalyptic genre takes old images of the past, and the author applies them to his present people and discusses near-term important events that would soon happen in their future. In Matthew 24, Jesus plunders the pages of the Old Testament, grabbing pregnant images and metaphors, to speak volumes of information to His disciples in... Continue Reading
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