Carson v. Makin: A Trilogy of Cases Protecting Religious Liberty, Completed
Chief Justice John Roberts identified the court’s cardinal principle that “a state violates the free exercise clause when it excludes religious observers from otherwise available public benefits.”
These three cases, because they widen the spectrum of parental educational choice, are especially important. Regrettably, many public schools and their boards have allowed their schools to drift into instruction that parents increasingly find runs counter to their convictions and values. This decision recognizes that parents desire and ought to have real educational alternatives. ... Continue Reading
My Reconstructed Faith
I realized I had been taken captive by a movement that replaced revelation with philosophy, the promises of God for the lies of humans, and the Word of God for human traditions.
When God began to reconstruct my faith, I realized how lonely I was and how much I needed help. I needed a community of believers to walk alongside me. I needed to sit under a faithful minister of the gospel and hear the word of God preached. Among the ever-growing list of controversies and... Continue Reading
Seeking Sanity
What was once thought untenable is now embraced, what was once tolerated is now imposed.
The world of Ecclesiastes exists in the same plane as does the world of our day, as has the world ever since our first parents’ exile from the Garden of Eden. The names may have changed but the people are the same. It seems like the world has lost its mind. Realities as basic... Continue Reading
Is Power Abusive?
Is it appropriate to ground authority relations and theological claims in the created order? Is it possible to legitimately exercise spiritual authority?
Evangelicals require a new strategy for understanding whether a theological “meeting of the minds”—that is, fellowship in the truest and deepest sense—can be possible between those who disagree about political and cultural issues. Two Questions on Authority Over the last several years, American evangelicalism has become increasingly divided. And while that claim is certainly... Continue Reading
The Curse Of God
Curses do not come from the hand of a malevolent tyrant but a merciful God.
Like the generation whose dead bodies lined the wilderness floor, the generation who killed God’s Son would be shut out of God’s New Covenant kingdom and would pay mightily for their crimes. That is the context we must understand if we are going to understand Matthew 24, which is one of the most misunderstood chapters in... Continue Reading
On Dobbs and the Growing Rift in America: Why Only a Spiritual Answer Explains the Division
The divide is seen in the way people respond to the image of God—to Christ and those created to share his likeness.
From the beginning, there has been a long divide between people of faith and people of the flesh, those like Seth who called upon God (Gen. 4:26), and those like Lamech who collected wives, deviated from God’s law, and threatened violence (Gen. 4:23–24). June 24 is a date that all Christians should now mark... Continue Reading
Denial of Sex Distinctions is a Symptom of Evolution
The first man and woman were in many ways the same. They also were given sex distinctions so that they could fit together and function as one amazing whole.
A source of the modern sexual identity crisis explosion is the touting of the theory of evolution, which undermines God’s creative plan and lets “survival of the fittest” function as we see fit. If we evolved into men and women, we can continue changing. God reveals Himself not as “Mother,” but “Father,” and so... Continue Reading
Last Abortion Business in Mississippi Will Close Down as New Abortion Ban Takes Effect
Babies will be saved, and women will find better alternatives.
This is a landmark day for the Pro-Life movement and our entire nation. After staining the moral fabric of our country for nearly 50 years, Roe v. Wade is no more. The last remaining abortion business in Mississippi will finally close down tomorrow [July 7, 2022] when the state’s new abortion ban officially takes effect. As... Continue Reading
Christians Should Rejoice over Dobbs
Many Christians are feeling the need to “nuance” their relationship to the overturning of Roe.
The coming months will be fascinating, and I suspect rather depressing, to watch. When it comes to abortion, especially after Dobbs, Christians face a choice of social respectability or religious fidelity. And the Christian commentariat already seems divided on which way to go. The Dobbs decision has revealed fault lines in American Christianity. These... Continue Reading
The Purity and Peace of the Church
The absence of peace in PCA courts is the product of a lack of purity; we don’t agree on core matters of what it is to be a Reformed Church.
The problem of lack of peace in the PCA is because we disagree regarding matters so essential as the three core marks of the Church (WCF 25:4, Worship, Sacraments, Gospel). If we disagree on these essentials, we will not agree on a united vision on the mission of the Church. These are not mere semantic... Continue Reading
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