Our careful scientific assessment of basic human sexual physiology—an evaluation completely consistent with our commonsense understanding of human sexual development—clears up the confusion that many experience regarding sex and gender.   On August 9, 2024, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won the gold medal in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics. The celebration was clouded, though,... Continue Reading

God in his glory is exalted above the highest heights of creation, beyond even the farthest reaches of the universe. From his heavenly throne the Lord rules all things according to his wise purpose.   Years ago, one of the young women in the church that I was pastoring was given the opportunity to meet... Continue Reading

It is not a “given” today that all views will be tolerated in the public sphere. Can claims to normative truth and ultimate reality —claims that offend ancient, modern, and ultra-modern sensibilities alike—still be made? To deny that there is an objective moral reality to which our social and political life must align is to... Continue Reading

Don’t place your hope in favorable circumstances, which cannot last. Place your hope in Christ and His promises. Jesus promised He will return, raise us, and live with us on a new, Redeemed Earth, where we’ll behold God’s face and joyfully serve Him forever (Revelation 22:3-4).   Regardless of our expectations or resolutions, this new... Continue Reading

Cancel culture and social censorship only work as long as people are willing to go along with it and too afraid to challenge it. Truth is a wonderful gift to a world that has been deceived.    A few days after the election, a CNN panelist Shermichael Singleton caused a minor stir on set by... Continue Reading

The last 250 years is a story of increasing globalization, as the world gets smaller and technology joins up more and more parts of the world.    Seven Key Historical Moments What happens in 1776—this one remarkable year—is that there are seven key developments that you can see in a particularly intense form. You have... Continue Reading

Can you imagine if every husband and wife vowed and delivered on the promise to “with my body I thee serve” and “of all my worldly goods, I thee endow…so long as we both shall live”? Every mini-society would be fused by iron bonds. Our macro society would be unassailably strong.   My daughter was... Continue Reading

According to worldly wisdom, [Machen’s] struggle in the massive mainline northern Presbyterian church was quixotic, but he never manifested a savior complex or fancied himself to be an Old Testament-type prophet, though their examples clearly inspired him.   J. Gresham Machen died 88 years and two days ago. His Westminster Seminary colleague, Dr. R. B.... Continue Reading

As we, by God’s grace, go into another new year that we do not deserve, let’s remember to do so by faith. Let’s remember, with God’s help, that at the best of times we are only bruised reeds and smouldering wicks (Isaiah 42:3), and that God in His goodness has given a Saviour-King who will... Continue Reading

As we are transformed by the renewal of our mind (informed by Scripture and illuminated by the Spirit), we will be better able to discern and choose what God wants us to do and how to obey the instructions that follow this passage in Romans.   Romans 12:1–2 is a fun text to study. It’s... Continue Reading