As followers of Christ, like Daniel, we are called to bear witness of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, a kingdom of grace, that offers us meaning and significance in the person of Jesus Christ, who bears the guilt of our offenses so that we might become citizens of His better kingdom.   One of the... Continue Reading

The report, released earlier this month, underscores the declining importance of religious faith in American life, as highlighted in pandemic reopenings when politicians prioritized restaurants and tattoo parlors over houses of worship.   The latest survey of the American Worldview Inventory from Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center found 43 percent of millennials born between 1984 and 2002... Continue Reading

Any politics of identity was bad for the Jew. On the right, the identiarians said that the Jew lacked whiteness — it was a new version of the old Nazi claim about our impurity. On the left, the Jew was said to have too much.    The furies have been unleashed. They were everywhere you... Continue Reading

One of the facets that stands out in the piece is the comment by one of the young people that they wished that someone has put up some resistance to their plan to transition. Do we love our children enough to stand up to them?   CBS News has released online Leslie Stahl’s 60 Minutes report on the... Continue Reading

The very building blocks of society are being torn from underneath of us by our evil, Satanic culture. We must recapture the simple, but profound understanding of the big picture on marriage for the Church, both in this generation and the next.    It seems like we have been talking a lot about marriage and... Continue Reading

Nature and Scripture represent two means to the same end: knowing God. The first (nature) has limits in that it can tell us the invisible things of God but only leave us without excuse. Scripture alone can savingly come to us since we must hear the preaching of the word and believe by faith.   ... Continue Reading

—The Scriptures must not merely be read as 66 individual books but as one unified and cohesive story. Understanding the Covenant of Works helps readers of the Bible understand this one grand story of how God saves sinners through His Son.   In the Garden of Eden, there lived a king named Adam. God gave... Continue Reading

The lawsuit argued that the rule forces religious schools to violate their religious beliefs and said the order was issued “without notice or the opportunity for public comment.” It further contended that the policy was issued without considering alternative policies that “respect the interests of private religious colleges.”   A federal judge rejected a Missouri Christian university’s... Continue Reading

The prayer of faith is a prayer of trust. The very essence of faith is trust. We trust that God knows what is best. The spirit of trust includes a willingness to do what the Father wants us to do. Christ embodied that kind of trust in Gethsemane.   I am astonished that, in the... Continue Reading

What we believe matters.  And that is no less true when it comes to religious belief and certainly the apex of disagreement between the Reformers and Roman Catholics can be found in the Reformation slogan sola fide.   In today’s world of tolerance and conciliation even theologians have a tendency to stray from the old... Continue Reading