There is something extremely comforting about knowing that God is our father. This relationship has been planned since before the foundation of the world. We have been adopted as sons and daughters into the family of the Triune God through the Son in the Spirit.   Certain statements grab our imagination. For me, J.I. Packer’s... Continue Reading

The covenant God is fulfilling in Esther is the same covenant He fulfills throughout the entirety of the Old Testament (see Gen. 12:3), only He often does it without miraculous, divine intervention. Instead, He fulfills His covenant promises through ordinary events and through the ordinary course of human lives.   The book of Esther is the... Continue Reading

The Soviet Union collapsed because it created a society built on fear and lies. The woke takeover of our institutions won’t bring us utopia, it will bring us the same misery and failure.   Saying two plus two equals four may now be problematic. One of the key aspects of the left-wing cultural revolution that’s... Continue Reading

The gospel disrupts a defeatist attitude. It won’t tolerate the mindset of a weary soldier who doesn’t want to fight anymore. Rather it says: In Christ, nothing is impossible (Luke 1:37). Your life, no matter how bad it is, is not beyond the scope of God’s life-giving, sin-defeating grace.   Tony tells me, “I’ve given... Continue Reading

Even when it is meant for evil, as with Joseph’s brothers; even in the midst of our sin, as with David; and even when it involves people we wouldn’t expect, such as Rahab; God is still sovereignly accomplishing His will for the redemption of His people for His glory.   A colorful coat given to... Continue Reading

“Son of Man” is just as much about Jesus’s divinity as it is his humanity. This title proves to be perhaps the most effective way Jesus reveals and conceals who he really is. By using “Son of Man,” he is able to minister undercover, so to speak, on earth.    The hit CBS show Undercover Boss... Continue Reading

On the other hand, we should not focus on death when it is close but rather should focus on Christ. This is because a large part of the terror of death comes from the awareness of our sins and our guilt before God. The unbeliever has no alternative but to hope that there is no... Continue Reading

The intellectual intransigence of southerners towards Edwards, especially southern Presbyterians with high views on the eucharist and those opposed to the New Divinity, should not be discounted in an attempt to create a tradition wherein Edwards is primary progenitor of Calvinist thought in North America.   In the 1840s and 1850s the debates over the... Continue Reading

Scientism’s inability to answer so many questions, including its inability to account for itself, clearly shows that a robust understanding of reality will rely on many disciplines of study, not just science.   Peter Atkins, scientist and fellow at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, recently wondered, “As a scientist, I am led to wonder whether... Continue Reading

As we again enter in on a time of special meditation on the wonder of God manifest in the flesh—come a baby in the manger—let us also meditate on the promised return of God glorified in the flesh—coming as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.   As we head toward another Christmas—and a renewed... Continue Reading