Our culture has too many limp wristed men whose Bibles have too little crease in its spine, who sleep past their alarms, get winded going up a flight of stairs, and find community in online gaming groups.   My firstborn child turned 10 years old today. Today I have been a father for a decade.... Continue Reading

What we find amusing reveals the state of the heart in things that people would otherwise stand opposed to if it were personally applied. What I mean by that is that no good Christian would want their daughter to watch something, or better yet, act in something, that glorifies the sexual exploitation women—yet they find... Continue Reading

The book of Esther teems with moral ambiguity: Esther joins the harem of a Gentile king, which is problematic enough, but readers are left to wonder whether it was of her own accord or not, and the story opens with a raucous, drunken feast and a king who objectifies his own wife then throws her... Continue Reading

If too much reading of Twitter has driven you a bit mad and you’ve started to fancy yourself an online knight in shining armor, make sure you too have someone like Sancho Panza around.   It can be and has been argued that Cervantes’s Don Quixote is the first modern “novel.” It has been a... Continue Reading

When the magistrate requires us to disobey God, we should make our case to the him and explain why we are conscience bound to disobey him. This is America. The 1619 Project notwithstanding, one of the principal reasons people came here was to be able to worship freely, according to conscience.   For better or... Continue Reading

All of these new religions locate meaning within this world rather than outside of it. Their narratives, from origins to anthropology to soteriology to eschatology, are immanent rather than transcendent, and therefore ultimately doomed to disappoint and to fail. They offer utopian visions that cannot and will not be realized.   We’ve all heard by... Continue Reading

Sovereign Nations is hosting October 8-10 in Tampa, Florida a conference featuring Michael O’Fallon, Tom Ascol, Josh Buice, Darrell Bernard Harrison, Virgil Walker, Rod Martin, John Connell, Ryan Helfenbein to talk about the dangers of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality on the church.   It is time for Christians to wake up, stand up, and... Continue Reading

Is beauty equivalent to truth and goodness? Certainly beauty as some kind of ultimate value must place it into relationship with other ultimate values such as goodness or truth. Again, this definition, by itself, falls short. Beauty, as the Hebrew writers showed us, is more than a philosophical construct or abstract notion. Beauty is a... Continue Reading

If the church is to be rooted in the timeless truths of God’s word, it needs leaders who are standing on the shoulders of giants in whom the Spirit of God was at work. If pastors are to navigate the overwhelming challenges of an increasingly secular and antagonistic society–not to mention the internal attacks from... Continue Reading

Gratitude overflows from a heart humbled and captivated by gospel grace. It is an expression of faith that also deepens faith. What happens when we embrace an attitude of gratitude? Our focus becomes reoriented. Our gaze shifts away from our selfish tendency to think that we need more in order to humbly celebrate all that... Continue Reading