This night of wrestling is not primarily about Jacob getting something out of God. This contest is about God getting something out of Jacob. Remember, Jacob did not go looking for the struggle. God came to Him, and for a while, Jacob had no idea what was going on.    No matter how much I struggled, there was no relief. I could not win the... Continue Reading

Expose the futility of the fear of man and pursue meaning and satisfaction from God. And look for a clearer and clearer sight of him in his grandeur, allowing his glory, which is displayed everywhere in his creation, to eclipse the people whose approval or rejection seem so large to you.   Anyone who has... Continue Reading

“This ruling is a welcome re-statement of the principle, upheld again and again in the courts, that the Christian belief that marriage is between a man and a woman is a belief protected by equality law and worthy of respect in a democratic society. This is a just outcome and one which sounds a warning... Continue Reading

A culture like ours, drunk on the arrogance of our own technological innovations but without any sort of consensus about the true and the good, simply cannot deal with the moral dilemmas that we ourselves are creating.    A heart is available, the clock is ticking, and doctors are forced to choose between three viable... Continue Reading

You can be around God’s promises, you can hear the gospel, you can even be an upstanding member in a Church but unless you believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ, you will perish outside of God’s promises.   We have come to the last post in this series on Numbers 14. I have shown you Israel’s sinful... Continue Reading

If Barr simply wanted to demonstrate that “biblical womanhood,” as some conservative Christians understand and practice it, has been shaped over the centuries by ideas and forces other than the Bible, that would likely be a convincing argument. But this would require Barr to admit that the current fervor against “biblical womanhood” is culturally situated as... Continue Reading

The story beneath the story is that the purposeful, history directing God is fulfilling his purpose, today, tomorrow and till history is no more. The purpose of God is to glorify himself by refining a people of his own, who are godly, and who love and serve his Son.   No matter the story, there... Continue Reading

If we could get people off the drug of paradisical statism, we would help them tremendously, queueing them up to appreciate the free market, free speech, free governments, and a free church. In yet simpler terms, we would liberate them—at least for now—from the clutches of history’s most persistent bad idea: Marxism.   Karl Marx’s... Continue Reading

Schnelle uncovers historical writings and the material culture of early Christianity so that readers can better understand what we can know. Readers can follow Schnelle’s reasoning of the sources; or they may not. That is the genius, as I see it, of Schnelle’s work.    I am fascinated by the question: why did a small number of... Continue Reading

We know that in ten thousand times ten thousand years, we will still be discovering, still be marveling, still be rejoicing at the love of our great God—the love that is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell.   An old story tells of a settler who traveled from east to west, from lands... Continue Reading