How and Why to Read Leviticus in 2022
The point of Leviticus is holiness—God’s holiness, and the holiness of his people.
If man is so sinful that they must constantly seek forgiveness, how could they ever be holy enough to measure up to God’s standard? God’s solution cuts the Gordian knot in a way man’s pride would never allow him to invent: God makes his people holy. Are Christians hateful? Bigoted? Ignorant? Do they “cling to... Continue Reading
God Will Bring Justice for Every Believer
In His perfect time, He will make things right.
Many Christians are suffering for their faith in this world. Even in countries without active persecution, Christians are excluded and face problems for simply being faithful. God cares deeply about this. Pray to Him about this. Ask for justice to be done. You can confident God knows your situation and listens. Ahab and Jezebel... Continue Reading
Authoritative Homes
Book Review—Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought, by Rita Coganzon
“The family,” Koganzon writes, “does prepare the child for citizenship, but not by having him rehearse civic principles from a young age. Rather it does so by inoculating him against the worst tendencies of liberalism—the tendencies to be ruled by fashion, custom, and the opinions of the majority.” This essential rootedness is in urgent demand... Continue Reading
Loving Those That the Woke Leaves Broke
Every ruler or ideology that places itself directly against the Most High will be defeated.
Even as we rightly aim to destroy demonic ideologies, we should labor to make it known that Christ calls those ensnared within them to come in repentance of their sin and find life and joy in Him. I have said once or twice that the Woke and LGBT ideology is a present manifestation of the spirit of the antichrist. And... Continue Reading
A Physical/Spiritual Dichotomy in Reading the Two Testaments
Removing the Old Testament from Christianity would be like removing color from a sunset.
The Old Testament prioritizes lineage, family, children, liturgy, feast days, priests, rituals, buildings, and land. The New Testament does not abolish these things. On the one hand, it actually further emphasizes their importance; the realities are more plainly manifested and understood. On the other, they are shown to be penultimate realities, for the telos is Christ Jesus.... Continue Reading
My Husband Sinned Against Me—Why Do I Carry the Shame?
Jesus, your loving, gracious, sovereign Lord, knows what it’s like to experience the “dirtiness” of someone else’s sin becoming his.
Sin in any relationship is serious, but since marriage is a unique covenant that represents Christ and the church, betrayal from a spouse is particularly devastating. Sexual unfaithfulness can shatter a wife’s sense of identity and worth. Her husband has not only gone outside the marriage but has actually brought pollution and idolatry into their union.... Continue Reading
Book Review: Kevin DeYoung’s Men and Women in the Church
Gender differences aren’t arbitrary, they are God-given.
Your gender proclaims God’s glory! In love he made you male or female. So to be faithful to God’s design we must wholeheartedly affirm the glory of both genders, retain the differences between the two, and practice what is specific to each. In our historic moment, the categories of male and female are no... Continue Reading
The Postmodern Self: The Slope Immediately Becomes Slippery
Truth and falsehood are no longer discernible, and what is known to be factual becomes blurred and distorted—including biology, identity, and sexuality.
Mankind has always struggled with pride and hubris, but Selfism elevates vice to virtue and packages it as illumined personal discovery. Selfism, a product of the human potential movement, feeds our desire for meaning while stroking our ego. The Self rises as a divine spark. We are each divine selves, masters of destiny and voices of... Continue Reading
Cultivating Truthfulness in Public Life
Our public discourse on the issue of gender theory and transgenderism is bogged down in shallow soundbites, with emotion substituted for argument.
The most basic implication of gender theory continues to masquerade as a variety of other arguments: Who can get pregnant? What do we call a person with a uterus? What can we assume about other people without direct instruction? But it is just the same question, over and over again: Are there really people who believe in... Continue Reading
Modern Cultic Tendencies
Christians are no longer regularly taught the foundational truths of the Christian faith and are therefore left vulnerable to cultists and others who cleverly twist Scripture.
The church must then work to change the patterns of thought that contribute to the spread of cults and cultic tendencies. The church must reject irrational anti-intellectualism and embrace the God whose word is truth. Christians must regain both the desire and the ability to think—loving God with all of their heart and mind. Since... Continue Reading
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