We need to pray for the church in Canada that she will be faithful to her Lord amid this pandemic. Many pastors think that the actions of a very small minority are actually hindering their Gospel witness. We need to pray for the resisters and their families.   As most of my readers know, I have... Continue Reading

For good or for ill (mostly for ill), social media is here to stay. The social internet—all of the different ways in which we communicate with others online—is an unprecedented institution of socialization whose only comparable innovation in recorded history is the Tower of Babel.    In 2013 I graduated from college with a biblical... Continue Reading

The strategy is to put women in teaching and leadership roles over men. After people see that a woman can fulfill the function of a pastor, they will be more open to accepting her into the office of pastor.   Mike Bird and Devi Abraham recently interviewed authors Kristin DuMez, Beth Allison Barr, and Aimee Byrd (see video below).... Continue Reading

Who will allow their greatest ministry to grow out of their deepest sorrow? This is a sacred ministry God calls some to undertake on his behalf. Those he calls are ordained to it not by the laying on of hands but by the emptying of their arms, the breaking of their bodies, the shattering of... Continue Reading

If your approach to interpreting the world leads you to call someone a racist who isn’t one, if it leads you to disparage the faith of fellow Christians simply on the basis of their skin color, or if it allows you to feel justified in insinuating that a policeman is akin to James Earl Ray... Continue Reading

Is it possible, then, that the “new stuff” in this parable is actually the Pharisees? Their fasting laws, their Sabbath restrictions, etc. are NOT the intention of the Old Testament. They’ve added new things in order to help us obey.   I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to preach through Luke 5:33—6:11. I had... Continue Reading

The word for passing on moral values and behavior through regular instruction in the faith by parents and pastors is catechesis. The kind of catechesis necessary for this cultural moment not only involves the “what” of biblical morality, but the “why” and the living out of the “how.”    Recently, researchers at State University of New York determined... Continue Reading

It is important to account for equality and inequality amongst men in a way that does not deny the natural order of things but also does not degrade or take away from man’s dignity as a creature made in the image of God.   Doctrines of inequality are far from in vogue in the modern... Continue Reading

When we look upon Him dying on the cross, we realize that He is the great High Priest who died to set us free. He shields and protects His people from the righteous execution of the wrath of God against for their sin.    One of the most wonderful Old Testament types of Jesus and... Continue Reading

USA Today’s Mike Freeman, a columnist for the paper, is the latest to bet that the NFL will back him in his absurd quest to cancel a Christian conference for daring men to act like… men! In today’s world, that’s apparently a shocking enough concept that Freeman thinks Dallas’s AT&T Stadium should call off the... Continue Reading