What’s the heart issue behind slander and gossip? The narcissistic duo of self-love and self-promotion. When we traffic in slander and gossip, we tear others down and build ourselves up.   Joseph Stowell calls them “catastrophic cousins,” and it wouldn’t be difficult to make the case from mere observation that they destroy more relationships and... Continue Reading

Don’t downplay the role of devices in dumbing down your thinking. Digital distractions aren’t the only factors eroding skills like critical thinking and deep reading, but they play a big role. And the stakes are high. Is it possible for focused thinkers like Luther to emerge in this world of frazzled, sloppy, shallow thinking?  ... Continue Reading

The Spirit accomplishes our union with Christ, hides our life with Christ in God, and makes Christ become “unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption” (I Cor 1:30). This is the trinitarian method of grace, whereby God brings us to himself by being himself toward us.   Grace is trinitarian: not only because... Continue Reading

Not only has Jesus provided a way for us to be reconciled to the Father, but He has also provided all that we need to be unified in love and sanctified for the work of making and maturing disciples of Jesus Christ until His return. Jesus is coming again in His glory.    In John... Continue Reading

Many are familiar with the fear, anger, anxiety, discontentment, jealousy, and pain that come when others don’t seem to like, love, or respond to them in the way they desire—in the way they’re convinced they need. Women and men alike have experienced what it’s like to feel trapped, even imprisoned, in a relationship that is... Continue Reading

Freedom from morality does not provide true freedom. It only brings about another type of bondage. It demands to be served and destroys all it touches. The other choice is freedom in Christ, which delivers us from the bondage of sin.   But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of... Continue Reading

Wokeness may promise a bounty of cultural approval, a small meal for a bottomless appetite of revenge, and some material assets. But like every wind of false doctrine blown in by the culture, woke is broke.    Wokeness is not surprising. It is normal behavior for a world filled with sin. But when believers begin... Continue Reading

Gidada read avidly the Scriptures, and felt the urge to share what he was reading with those who didn’t yet know Christ. This desire was providential because, when Italy occupied Ethiopia in 1936, all British and American missionaries had to leave the country. The mission had to rely on local preachers.   His family name,... Continue Reading

The way the Spirit subsists in God shows up in the way the Holy Spirit carries out the divine works of redemption. Just as he is third, or we might say final, in the eternal order of perfect deity, he behaves thirdly or finally in the work of God. “To him belongs by economic office... Continue Reading

Evangelicals who deny timelessness must account for the implications that denial has for immutability, simplicity, and God’s eternality. If you change, redefine, or alter these doctrines of God, you have created a different God.   It’s just going to take some time. Time will heal. Or simply: with time my dear, with time. Time is powerful.... Continue Reading