A genderless church is as unthinkable as a genderless Eden as we seek to obey the gospel mandate to multiply by making disciples. Titus 2 makes this commission gender-specific when older women are told to disciple younger women to be life-givers in every relationship and situation.   The jarring “It is not good for the man... Continue Reading

If Biden packs the Court, it will further legislate from the bench. It is much easier for a handful of justices to implement a radical progressive agenda than it is to convince a majority of 100 Senators and 435 Representatives to do the progressives’ bidding.   Presidential candidate Joe Biden has been asked repeatedly whether... Continue Reading

Hypocrisy is when you care more for other people’s sin than for your own. It’s when your foremost concern is not your own flaws, but the flaws of other Christians.   I am a master at identifying sin. I might be tempted to brag about that fact, except for this: While I’m a master at... Continue Reading

The first sentence of the Institutes orients us to its two great themes: “Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves” (Institutes 1.1.1). Calvin’s desire — which he comes back to time and time again — is this... Continue Reading

If something more is required for forgiveness and cleansing from all unrighteousness (a state required for heaven), then the believer is in a dilemma. What if he fails to confess some sins? What if he fails to confess one sin? Is he unforgiven and not cleansed from all unrighteousness?….God does intend, as the passage teaches,... Continue Reading

As we have been looking at the tragic attacks on our faith by our enemy and his seed which have never stopped since our Lord’s Ascension, the best way to combat another round of fake Christians attempting to dilute the Gospel and create a new form of Christianity such as Woke Christianity as did the... Continue Reading

The apostle Paul calls us to embark on an adventure of exploring the vastness of the love of Christ, with the mission of knowing something that is ultimately unknowable (Eph. 3:18-19). Not that we can’t know love truly, but that we will never know it fully.   But the fruit of the Spirit is love…... Continue Reading

The Ottoman rulers, fearful their Armenian subjects might be siding with Russia, began a campaign of deportation and mass killings that resulted in about one and a half million deaths. A similar persecution started against Assyrian Christians.   William Ambrose Shedd was born January 24, 1865, in the mountain village of Seir, near Urmia, in... Continue Reading

Both Joseph and Jesus are betrayed by those closest to them—Israelite brothers—and sold for silver. Both are handed over to cousins of the people of Israel: Jesus to Herod the Edomite, a descendant of Esau the brother of Jacob, and Joseph to the Ishmaelites, descendants of Ishmael brother of Isaac. Both were falsely accused and... Continue Reading

If it happens in the not-so-distant future that you are arrested simply for teaching someone about Jesus, how are you going to respond? How you respond will be based on what has shaped your image of the good life.   Psalms 1 and 2 express two different images of life under God—as a flourishing tree,... Continue Reading