Curved in upon Ourselves
Correlation doesn't equal causation—unless you're in a feedback loop
Failure to honor God leads to mental darkness, which leads to idolatry, which leads to a debased mind, which leads to corrupt actions, which leads to a disordered moral vision, and so on. Do people behave like beasts because they treat God like a creature, or do they treat God like a creature because they... Continue Reading
Praying in Jesus’ Name
When we pray to God by faith in Christ, we bring our requests to God in light of what Christ has accomplished in the work of redemption.
Looking to Christ by faith in His name means trusting in Him to supply what He has secured. We pray in Christ’s name as an act of faith in Him as the only Mediator and the fulfiller of the covenant promises. Certain practices have become so familiar among Christians that believers can be in... Continue Reading
An Immigrant in Ohio’s Thoughts on Springfield
Sometimes, both sides are wrong.
Leftists have been quick to dismiss the real issues in Springfield and conservatives have been just as fast to sensationalise it. I know some conservatives do not want to hear this, but the truth is, we have become guilty of much of what we hate about the Left. As a Ghanaian-Canadian immigrant in Ohio,... Continue Reading
Past Them, through Them, over Them, around Them
God has placed his richest blessings within our deepest wounds.
As we entrust our sorrows to him, we find that he has first entrusted them to us. He has assigned to us these sorrows so we can in turn consecrate them to him. He means for us to faithfully steward them, confident that they will guide us into deeper submission to his purposes and deeper... Continue Reading
10 Ways to Fracture Your Church
Church is a place to love others and to be loved, to give and take.
To arrest a possible breakup, you need to talk about the threat before the root of bitterness grows. Deal with it quickly. Like cancer, it must be handled as soon as it is discovered because any delay only allows the cancer to grow. Jesus’s Prayer for the Church Toward the end of Jesus’s life... Continue Reading
An Army of the Ordinary
You and I can make a difference.
Keep working for the Lord…You and I may be just very ordinary people. But we can do some extraordinary things with the help of our Lord. We might just be ordinary, but our God certainly is not. The longer you are a Christian, the less you speak about “coincidence” and the more you speak... Continue Reading
Where Does Your Help Come From? (Psalm 121)
Jesus is the helper of his people now and for eternity.
[God’s] got you now, present tense. But he’s got you in the future too. He will keep you from evil. He will keep your life. He will keep your going out and coming in not just now but into eternity. It’s not just a promise for this life but for all time. God has promised good to his people throughout... Continue Reading
Churchill Wasn’t the Bad Guy
Deconstructing everything leads to false history.
Because Churchill insisted on fighting, Cooper [popular historian] suggested, he is the real villain of the war. Churchill, he said, wanted war to make up for his part in the disaster at Gallipoli in World War I. Though nothing in Churchill’s writings suggests this, Hitler clearly articulated his intentions and, despite what Cooper claimed, it was not to pursue... Continue Reading
Men Lead by Singing
Men who sing the faith with their families are preparing them for a life of work, warfare, and worship.
At the end of life, when he is no longer able to sing, the man who has led his family in song will have a rich repertoire at hand and will have prepared himself well for the eternal song of the saints of God in heaven. Singing is a manly and powerful means of... Continue Reading
Politics, Conscience, and the Church: The Why, What, and How of Political Disagreement
All Christians care about justice, but we don’t always agree about how to identify injustice and how to right those wrongs.
While Christians may not like the alternatives, voting for a party that celebrates murder in the womb, transgenderism, and a host of other sexual deviancies is at best exceedingly unwise and at worst sinful. Christians live as dual citizens of an earthly nation and the heavenly kingdom. To paraphrase Aristotle, politics is the science... Continue Reading
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