We have set this scene, yet when the predictable script plays out, we ask, “Why do we keep letting this happen?” Neither rifle bans, tougher background checks, nor any other “do something!” policy aimed at mass shootings will actually stop the carnage.    As the country reels over the Texas massacre, where 19 children and... Continue Reading

If you need the worlds of sports, entertainment, education, media, and government to celebrate your sexuality in order to feel proud, maybe your conscience is trying to tell you something. Might it be that deep down—behind the torrent of rainbow flags and the blitz of billionaire sponsors—God is speaking to us a different word?  ... Continue Reading

Pure is a good and helpful book that insightfully analyzes the shortcomings of the purity movement and offers a much better, much more compelling, and much more biblically-grounded vision for singleness, dating, marriage, and sex.    Do you remember the purity movement? Or perhaps it’s better to ask this: How could you possibly forget the purity... Continue Reading

It seems that Evangelicalism is destined to divide into two divergent streams in the twenty-first century, one Protestant and one sectarian. The gap is destined to grow ever wider because one stream is tethered to the past whereas the other has slipped its moorings and is destined to drift endlessly.    Evangelicalism in the twenty-first... Continue Reading

Gender ideology denies the goodness of the male-female binary and praises all deviations from that binary. This way of thinking implies that intersex conditions are not a terrible affliction to be borne, but actually a blessing to be desired.    The term “intersex” describes a small percentage of people who are affected by a congenital... Continue Reading

We may rightly regard Calvin as a hero of the faith, but he didn’t ultimately see himself that way. Humility had taught him to walk modestly before God and others—and, in the end, the freedom to lie down in a forgotten grave.   On May 27, 1564, just after eight o’clock in the evening, a... Continue Reading

Although faithful Christians know that “to depart and be with Christ is far better”, we patiently choose to remain until our work on earth is done and our Lord calls us home. Glory awaits those who wait patiently.   I was recently taken aback to read that medical assistance-in-dying (MAID) was performed in a church in Manitoba.... Continue Reading

Whoever you are, and whatever the depths and agony of your trials, God is hovering over you: he loves you, he is near to you, and he can rescue you. We see a living picture of his rescue unfold in the subsequent six days of creation.     In the beginning God created the heavens and the... Continue Reading

Paul’s reliance on other believers in his ministry is here patent as he mentions his assurance that not only Philemon, but also his entire house-church is remembering him in prayer.    The Ancient Paths “The family that prays together stays together.” This very catchy phrase was created as a motto in 1947 for the Roman... Continue Reading

Let’s rescue the Gentiles together, Gentile to Gentile. Let’s assimilate them to the Kingdom, including them at the table as they repent and believe the Gospel. And then we can teach them English.   Years back, my heart got large for missions — especially urban missions to those on the ‘other side of the tracks.’... Continue Reading