State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who authored the bill signed by Newsom, said transgender people are the ones who are routinely victimized in prison.   Transgender inmates in California will now be housed according to their gender identity thanks to a new law signed Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA). The law states that... Continue Reading

For now, of course, we are not yet as holy as we long to be. But holiness is our destiny: whole-souled contentment, expansive love, brilliant joy, perfect peace.   If you are in Christ, the desire for holiness is woven into your spiritual DNA. You have learned to say with the old prayer, “Sin is... Continue Reading

The visible church is the means through which we must hear of and believe in Christ, so that we can become members of the invisible church. As we examine this subject, we must remember that visible and invisible are two aspects of a single church, rather than two distinct churches (Eph. 2:11-13, 19-22).   Many... Continue Reading

The Lord will never let His church perish from the earth, and He will never lose one of His children. He will guard and keep you and all who find shelter in Christ eternally secure so that you do not have to fear those seeking to trample the church underfoot.   Then I was given... Continue Reading

Jesus’ baptism foreshadows the time on the cross when he will die for the sins of the people of Israel and indeed for the sins of all those who are his.   Definition Jesus’s baptism is an act of humility. In his baptism, he consents to be counted as if he were a sinner, along... Continue Reading

An artist can take a square block of marble and form it into a beautiful statue or take a plain canvas and transform it by arranging paint pigments into a beautiful pattern, but that is not how God created the universe. God called the world into being, and His creation was absolute in the sense... Continue Reading

Our culture has too many limp wristed men whose Bibles have too little crease in its spine, who sleep past their alarms, get winded going up a flight of stairs, and find community in online gaming groups.   My firstborn child turned 10 years old today. Today I have been a father for a decade.... Continue Reading

What we find amusing reveals the state of the heart in things that people would otherwise stand opposed to if it were personally applied. What I mean by that is that no good Christian would want their daughter to watch something, or better yet, act in something, that glorifies the sexual exploitation women—yet they find... Continue Reading

The book of Esther teems with moral ambiguity: Esther joins the harem of a Gentile king, which is problematic enough, but readers are left to wonder whether it was of her own accord or not, and the story opens with a raucous, drunken feast and a king who objectifies his own wife then throws her... Continue Reading

If too much reading of Twitter has driven you a bit mad and you’ve started to fancy yourself an online knight in shining armor, make sure you too have someone like Sancho Panza around.   It can be and has been argued that Cervantes’s Don Quixote is the first modern “novel.” It has been a... Continue Reading