Matching Actions and Words
We cannot attend pagan rituals in the name of love.
This is not “a fine line” to walk….don’t be deceived, and don’t be manipulated. By staying home, you will communicate that you mean what you say, and you say what you mean. That may not please your gay loved one, but it will please God. In the end, that is what matters. The American... Continue Reading
“Losing Our Religion” and the Fracturing of American Evangelicalism
Book Review: In addition to elements of memoir, jeremiad, lament, and indictment, the book includes Moore’s wisdom and counsel for persevering through a challenging season.
Losing Our Religion is a complicated book, and readers will find much to agree and disagree with, as I did. It offers a fascinating, personal, raw, and at times puzzling look into our recent and ongoing struggles with faith, politics, culture, and loving—or at least co-existing with—our neighbors. Around twenty years ago as a... Continue Reading
The Ruling Elder & the Ministry of the Word
Encouraging Fruitfulness and Faithfulness
Ruling elders, support your ministers, guard your ministers, pray for your ministers. Seek out those who are called to preach and encourage them. And protect God’s people from those who would lead them astray. In so doing, you will ensure that the preaching of the Word of God remains the Word of God. The... Continue Reading
No, Evangelicals Are Not Selling Their Souls for Israel
A Reflection Occasioned by Jim Fitzgerald’s Recent Article
We do not say that Israel is wholly right in its tactics or generally, nor that [Fitzgerald] is obligated to support her, only that his opposition to her ought to be more honest and careful in its sources, and that he not be so quick to suggest those who might support her are derelict in... Continue Reading
The Wrath of a Righteous God
This doctrine beckons us not to a mere intellectual assent but to a heartfelt recognition of the seriousness of sin and the majesty of God's justice.
In contemplating the anger of God, we are drawn into a more profound and reverent worship of Him. It is a solemn reminder of our sinfulness, the holiness of God, and the incredible gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. When attempting to know God, believers are sometimes confronted with attributes and aspects of His character... Continue Reading
“The Meaning of Non-Binary Sexuality”
The denial of distinctions is an implication of a pagan view of nature, which they apply not only to sexuality but also to theology. All is one!
Queer theory is not just a case of free expression of physical desires. It is a Oneist worldview statement against God the Creator which will undermine our culture in profound ways. We can expect a totalitarian state opposed to God, determined to stamp out the truth. This is a homo-cosmology, a non-binary worldview based on... Continue Reading
Faith Really Works
What are you believing God for right now?
God wants us to look to Him, hear from Him, and trust Him for all things, big things, continual things. In fact, every single moment and circumstance of our life is a call to faith. What you are facing right now—whatever it is—is about faith. God is trying to teach you to trust Him and... Continue Reading
Discerning in Doctrine But Not Discerning in Character
There is a connection between maturity and discernment.
Press on in spiritual discernment—to be deliberate in separating truth from error and right from wrong. There is never a time to relax your guard when it comes to this critical discipline. I believe that discernment matters. I believe that spiritual discernment is a necessary mark of spiritual maturity while a lack of spiritual... Continue Reading
GRACE Report and Tenth Presbyterian Church
GRACE suggests that the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper may be withheld from the penitent as a form of ongoing consequences for past sins.
If GRACE operated according to biblical precepts, they would not be as quick and confident to meddle with the peace and administrative functions of the church, or make inquiries that can become the occasion for the vulnerable and unlearned to violate the Ninth Commandment. I found the GRACE report to be an abomination. It... Continue Reading
Who Is Our Enemy?
During our sojourn here, we are living and moving in enemy-occupied territory.
God has not left us ignorant of the sphere of warfare or of the enemy himself. Much biblical revelation from the first promise of Christ’s victory over the evil one (Genesis 3:15) is taken up with a revelation about the nature of spiritual warfare. What impact would it have had on the church in our late-modern,... Continue Reading
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