As we do our God ordained job of confronting a brother or sister in need of rescuing, we must be gentle. Out of love for them and love for their soul we must go to them delivering the entire truth, but we must do so in a way that pleases the Lord.   I was... Continue Reading

Even if we had no Bibles, and no preachers, the psalmist says that God would still make his majestic beauty known to us through the skies, the stars and the sun. And this, incidentally, is why the Bible doesn’t try to prove the existence of a Creator. It’s just assumed.   Open a Bible about... Continue Reading

The appeals court said Friday that the university engaged in “viewpoint discrimination” by  selectively enforcing policies requiring all clubs to offer equal opportunity and access to members regardless race, religion, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity.   A federal appeals court has upheld a 2019 ruling against the University of Iowa, affirming... Continue Reading

When we care passionately about an issue, it can be tempting to take a short cut. Don’t. You will cut yourself off from all correction, exhortation, and admonition from your brothers and sisters in Christ. And you won’t like where you end up.   A few months ago, Gregory Thompson and Duke Kwon published Reparations, a... Continue Reading

When the resurrected Christ in His glory and the manifestation of His holiness appears, all creatures will fall at His feet because He is other. He is holy.  Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord! (Luke 5:8) Peter’s reaction to this miraculous catch of fish is very interesting. He was a... Continue Reading

To worship with the gathered church is to be in the heavenly temple in the presence of God. To be a Christian is to be part of the body. Walking wounded, smeared in her own sin, and riven with division: it is the Church.   For all the philosophers and critics say we are ‘expressive... Continue Reading

In a very real sense, when we sin, we repeat the fall of Adam and Eve and the nation of Israel. The story always remained the same. It wasn’t until the coming of Christ that the pattern was broken. Though he was tempted just like Adam and Eve and the nation of Israel, he remained... Continue Reading

As promised, Eve’s offspring—Jesus Christ—is now bringing to an end the long reign of sin and death in the world. God and humankind are being reconciled.   My mother was in her sixties when she entered the cancer hospice. That was bad enough. But there were younger people there too. I remember one young mother... Continue Reading

Owen viewed these particulars as the “ways and means whereby a soul may proved to the mortification of any particular lust and sin…” Since none of these particulars can be accomplished without the Spirit, Owen viewed them as the means by which the Spirit works upon the heart of the believer to accomplish mortification.  ... Continue Reading

Burton outlines three new religious movements vying for dominance, none of which would call itself a religion but at least two of which are widely described in religious terms.   The book takes us on a journalistic tour of some examples of “pick & mix” religion before describing three movements that Burton describes as religions.... Continue Reading