Three Things Jonathan Edwards Teaches Us about Holy Communion
Holy Communion signifies our union with Christ and displays the union of all believers in Christ.
In Holy Communion God stoops down to our level to show the great mystery of our union with Christ in a very tangible manner. He does not just explain a complex theological concept to us and leave us to ponder about it. He lets us see, smell, touch, taste, and even participate in its reenactment.... Continue Reading
The Digital Will Never Make Us Better
While the Digital is nothing but a “hall of mirrors, deterministic, cold and sterile,” we as part of the Analog are “numinous, reverberative, warm and fertile.”
Arrogance is at the root of our problem, as pride arrives just in time to initiate the tragic fall (Proverbs 16:18). We may be technologically advanced, but it isn’t helping us if we wield our latest digital tools as weapons against God….Thankfully, all is not lost because God is still in control, the Spirit is... Continue Reading
Parenting and the Digital Liturgies
The digital age is having a serious spiritual effect on us. How will it affect our households?
You and I are not going to be able to exhaustively know everything and everyone that our kids are encountering through digital tech. Even strong guardrails are not going to fully account for every minute with this technology. That needs to be accepted rather than protested. But there is encouraging news: The next generation of... Continue Reading
In Praise of the Boring, Uncool Church
What’s fashionable is, by the necessity of the rules of fashion, quickly obsolete.
In a world of dizzyingly disposable trends, so much seems to collapse as quickly as it arrives: brands, celebrities, movements, institutions, ideas. When we misconstrue faith as just another thing in the consumerist stew, it too becomes a flash-in-the-pan fashion, as fragile and fickle as the latest viral trend on TikTok. The life of Christian faith... Continue Reading
“It Is the Spirit Who Gives Life”
By the work of Jesus, the Spirit will come in fullness and power to mark out the people of God.
Since the Spirit of God is the Spirit of truth, his operations in sanctification in the new covenant are more powerful and thorough than before the coming of Christ, for the shadows and types now are fulfilled and made clear by His appearing. The explanation of the person and work of Christ by the inspiration... Continue Reading
Did a Faithless Gideon Use a Fleece to Test God’s Will? (Judges 6)
The calling of Gideon follows the pattern of the calling of Moses in Exodus 3.
Gideon’s questions in Judges 6:13 set the stage for the Lord’s deliverance of Israel: “Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’” In the tradition... Continue Reading
Does Penal Substitution Require the Resurrection?
Without mention of the resurrection a gospel message is no gospel at all.
Christ’s penal substitutionary death which demands the resurrection…because the resurrection is a demonstration of the legal verdict of righteousness pronounced on the incarnate Son, the resurrection is not an event we loosely tie to a legal atonement but is itself legal in nature as it is Christ’s justification. And because salvation comes to us via our union... Continue Reading
Why We Can’t Divorce America’s Founding and Future from Christianity
Critics of the natural law try to eliminate Christianity because it places demands on humans as moral and rational agents.
If Christianity, the bedrock on which the natural law tradition was built, is destroyed, then the rule of law is destroyed alongside it. This permits the triumph of the will and the rule by arbitrary decree to take its place out of the ashes of that destruction. When discussing the American founding, it is... Continue Reading
The Simplest Way to Impact Your Community Right Now
Practicing hospitality is one of the simplest ways we can engage those around us with the truth of the gospel.
God is not merely redeeming individuals; He is building a people for His own glory. This people will live together, with Him, for all eternity. Heaven will not be lived out in isolation, but in community. If we believe this to be true, then one way we testify to that belief is by pursuing a... Continue Reading
The Evil of Digitizing the Analog of God
Biblically viewed, the transhumanist plan is to build a “computer tower of Babel” which will rise into the Cloud where Artificial Intelligence and the Supreme Will of the Transhuman Elites will rule like a divine godhead.
Thankfully, transhumanists will eventually fail in their effort to “lengthen their days” and thwart God’s will (Ecclesiastes 8:13). Yet until that divine judgment comes upon them, they may very well lead much of humanity down a primrose path and pathology that will cause immense harm to those who were specifically created by God to thrive,... Continue Reading
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