Guarding the Heart
The heart is the battleground of your soul.
The work of keeping our heart is not an easy work, but it is an attainable work, and we can be assured that it is an attainable work because God has promised that it is a work that He Himself is working in us by His Spirit. If we stand firm, it is because we... Continue Reading
Restoring 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 as a Parallel to 1 Timothy 2:12
Both passages require women to be submissive and quiet/silent in worship.
Most egalitarians and complementarians limit the debate over the involvement of women in public worship to 1 Timothy 2:12. However, Reformed theologians historically held that 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 is a parallel passage to 1 Timothy 2:12. The reason can be seen when the language of the two passages is compared. Most of the debate today... Continue Reading
Church Leaders and Woke
The Woke agenda is now calling the shots in vast areas of our nation’s political, cultural, educational and working life.
Society has changed radically, even in the last five years. If Christians do not understand where all this is coming from and have not been taught to assess this movement biblically how will they know what to say? Why we need to open our eyes. The Catholic writer Noelle Mering gives a helpful and... Continue Reading
No Mercy Without Rules
Mercy is incoherent if there are no rules, rules that are rightly believed and applied.
Any Christian leader who manages to separate mercy from rules in such a way as to prioritize the former over the latter would not really be merciful at all. Rather, he would be seriously delinquent in his duty. He might even be merely pandering to the spirit of this age. Announcing the death of... Continue Reading
On the Changing of the Dictionaries
All of society’s structures and institutions are being made subservient to political ends.
God has given us a source of truth that reigns over every book, every dictionary, every source of information. God has given us his truth in his Word and it reigns supreme…And when even the best and greatest dictionaries have become defunct and crumbled into dust, that Word will remain fixed and constant, inerrant and... Continue Reading
How to Preach Parables
The parables feature what the whole of the New Testament covers: gospel need, gospel proclamation, gospel response, and gospel ethics.
Whatever mistakes we make in reading and preaching the parables, let us not make the mistake of not making much of Jesus. He is the sower of the good seed of the gospel, the heaven-sent Son, the bridegroom of his church, the king upon his glorious throne, the final judge of all people everywhere, and... Continue Reading
The Church and Antisemitism
Today, as antisemitism once again rears its ugly head, the Church should take the lead in opposing this evil and supporting the value and dignity of our Jewish neighbors.
Though Christian churches and Christian individuals have been guilty of antisemitism, the record is better than skeptics and popular history suggest. Whenever churches have stood up for the Jews, the degree of antisemitism in that culture has been far less. Over the centuries, Christians have been responsible for many crimes and evils committed against... Continue Reading
Public Schools Have Lost Over a Million Students. Here’s Where They’re Going.
The pandemic has created a nationwide appetite for educational freedom among parents.
Rising enrollments in choice schools, particularly in private schools, not only provide evidence of a continuing school-choice wave sweeping the country, but also demonstrate how these learning environments will continue to be an important part of the United States’ educational fabric. Public schools in the United States have lost over a million students in... Continue Reading
The Crushing Obligation to Keep Doing More and More
The needs seem so urgent. The workers seem so few. If we don’t do something, who will?
Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three... Continue Reading
A Forgotten Fact about the Earliest Christian Movement
One of the central features of the early Christian movement was that they were a people who traveled, and traveled extensively.
So, if you want to recapture your identity as a believer, don’t just think about the future. Look to the past. Remember what Christians have always been: voyagers. We are travelers. As such, take up the invitation of Paul: “Travel with us as we carry out this act of grace that is being ministered by us,... Continue Reading
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