Those who are the best models of kindness are those who understand, model, and wisely teach others what the Teacher Himself has taught. As Paul reminded Timothy, “the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach,” etc. (2 Tim 2:24).   Kindness is one of God’s communicable attributes, those He... Continue Reading

Guerrilla warfare has reached the pews. What will our response be? Perhaps it’s less vociferous in the rest of the West, but as they say, when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold, or a virus more deadly perhaps. That’s totally possible.   The Culture War threatening to tear the West apart... Continue Reading

Reading a verse in isolation creates a context vacuum that is quickly filled with our own life context, which creates a new meaning. God’s intended meaning is overwritten by our own meaning.   It’s easy to overwrite the meaning of God’s word. We can do it without trying because the process is almost automatic. That’s... Continue Reading

During the Reformation, John Calvin saw a need to help the church rehearse gospel rhythms when it gathered for worship.[1] His liturgy, or order of worship, followed three movements—a cycle of adoration, a cycle of renewal, and a cycle of commitment.   When you think about explaining a worship service to kids, you might say... Continue Reading

We all have our own gifts and callings that can be used, and if nothing else, we all live in a particular sphere of family and friends that no one else does. So the close relationships one person has with his own family members, his circles of friends, his workmates or classmates, etc, are largely... Continue Reading

Trueman is convinced that the changes we have seen in sexual mores since the 1960s are symptomatic of the deeper changes “in how we think of the purpose of life, the meaning of happiness, and what actually constitutes people’s sense of who they are and what they are for.”   “I am a woman trapped... Continue Reading

If we could see how God is weaving and pulling together the strands of our days and weeks and months, there would not be one useless thread to pick out.   What a year 2020 has been. It’s been described by some as a ‘terrible’ year or even the ‘worst year’ globally. Although historians would... Continue Reading

The only vaccination against the viral strains of autonomy, tribalism, and corrupted ambition is to leverage your whole being for connection and service outside of yourself. That’s the only way that we, as people who are created for the glory of God in community, can flourish in a fallen world.   God created all people... Continue Reading

Nothing can alter the finality or efficacy of Christ’s blood. His resurrection is your resurrection. In him, salvation is not merely possible, but actual. This means that you can take great joy in knowing that you are truly safe in God’s mighty hand.   Debate concerning the doctrine of justification is nothing new. In fact,... Continue Reading

He advocated for a mission to bring the gospel to his people in Hawaii. In preparation for that, he developed the first written version of the Hawaiian language, completing a dictionary, grammar, and spelling book, and translated the Book of Genesis into Hawaiian.   Henry ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia lived only 26 years and is seldom known outside... Continue Reading