Solitude connects you to God, yourself, and others. It gives life. Isolation cuts you off and leaves you feeling empty. One restores; the other drains.   More than ever before, I enjoy being alone…but there’s a world of difference between solitude and isolation. It’s easy to miss the difference because, on the surface, they look... Continue Reading

Come, Let Us Go to the House of the Lord Because Jesus has gone on his own exile in his death and returned to the presence of God in his resurrection and ascension, we can see that we have one step back into Eden. Because Christ has gone before us into the presence of God,... Continue Reading

The solution to the problem of the eternal relations of authority and submission is…to say that the one Lord Jesus Christ is always the subject of the actions that he does, and in his incarnate humanity, he became the only mediator between God and man, “the man Jesus Christ.”   This article examines the (incorrect)... Continue Reading

Consistent secularists and atheists must conclude suffering is random, a matter of luck or power. Hinduism says suffering is deserved because of actions in a previous life. Buddhism says suffering is caused by your cravings for and attachment to material things. Only Christianity says the problem of evil is real.   After college, I spent... Continue Reading

To raise dangerous Christians is to put steel in their spines, fire in their bones, and Scripture in their mouths. It is to prepare them to walk into the world not as tourists but as ambassadors. Not as impressionable youths but as immovable saints.   In Part 1 of this series, The Battle for Minds,... Continue Reading

Getting involved in the lives of caregivers and their loved ones may seem like a sacrifice, but it’s well worth it for everyone involved. If we are convinced that “the body does not consist of one member but of many” (1 Corinthians 12:14), and each is necessary for the building up of the church, we... Continue Reading

Many people know the Bible well yet live unchanged lives. Why? A person’s heart posture matters. Accumulating knowledge without a proper heart posture leads to dangerously deceiving and treacherous roads for the Christian. It self-deceives the Christian who is constantly around things of God, yet not necessarily with Him.   My son, give me your... Continue Reading

I would encourage fathers and brothers to consider the overture to form a committee with open minds….Perhaps in the last 50 years, the PCA has grown in maturity and can have discussions she was unable to have in her early days. Such would be a worthy endeavor to finish the unfinished business of the PCA’s... Continue Reading

Natural theology does not begin from atheistic anthropology, according to which man does not possess an innate idea of God. Natural theology begins from the common epistemic faculties of human beings and the evidence of the external world. Together, Vos argues, these provide all people, whatever their ideological presuppositions, with testimony of God.   Even before attending... Continue Reading

The people blessed by God are about to receive a curse from a foreign agent. If the decisions of other gods could be manipulated by practices such as divination, then maybe God’s plan for the Israelites could, likewise, be changed. God’s promises were able to withstand insurrection (Numbers 16), foreign armies (Numbers 21), and, of... Continue Reading