Even granting what the Court claims about “the ordinary public meaning” of the Title VII statute, the notion that “discrimination based on homosexuality or transgender status necessarily entails discrimination based on sex” is just flat-out confused. It’s a bad ruling that will have very harmful consequences (and not just for religious employers).   Yesterday, the... Continue Reading

“Go change the world,” ambitious graduates are told, which usually means, “Go become great in the eyes of the world.” Our current culture of side-hustles can stoke discontentment too; at times I’ve struggled to feel like my calling to pastor a local church is enough, as though if I did more then I’d be something... Continue Reading

We must not mistake temporal injustice for God’s primary concern. We need to cultivate heaven’s perspective on the world’s maladies, understanding that instances of injustice are not necessarily ills to be cured but symptoms of the comprehensive corruption of sin’s spiritual cancer.   Most of us have heard of Charles Darwin’s landmark work, The Origin... Continue Reading

I’m a Reforming white Christian woman who loves and affirms sound doctrine, and I believe systemic racism exists. I’m not woke. I’m not Marxist. I don’t align with the BLM or critical race theory movement but I can say “Black Lives Matter” because they do.   When George Floyd died under the knee of a... Continue Reading

Like other good gifts from God, even the gift of encouragement has a sinister imitation: flattery. While at times looking very similar to encouragement, Scripture warns that flattery leads to selfish and destructive ends.   Lurking in the shadow of every good gift from God is a twisted perversion that seeks to imitate and destroy.... Continue Reading

We belong to the One who will protect us from all harm for he has conquered the wind and wave of death itself. At the cross, Jesus bore the penalty for our sin to remove death’s sting. This means, that even if we find ourselves wading in deep waters, we can tell our frantic souls... Continue Reading

When we are filled with righteous indignation at the injustices perpetrated in a fallen world, what praise songs are sufficient? When a gunman has just sprayed a class of seven-year-olds with bullets; when a jihadist has just blown himself up in a crowded market; when unborn children are ripped apart in their mothers’ wombs for... Continue Reading

God is not wringing His hands right now crying, “What am I going to do?” He is sovereign and He knows what He is doing. We don’t have to know the reasons for it. We simply have to know that he is good and trust Him. In short, we need to know the biblical doctrine... Continue Reading

The death of George Floyd deserved a nation’s lament, as well as a united conviction to fight for justice. The great injustice of his death now associated with rampant destruction serves only to compound the tragedy.   As Americans put collective hands to our mouths while watching the death of George Floyd, hot tears filled... Continue Reading

It never, until that very moment, entered their minds that they might be unknown to Jesus. They had lived—possibly for years, or even decades—under the delusion that they were safe. Secure. True servants of Jesus.   During a youth weekend retreat when I was in the 7th grade, some friends and I were attempting to... Continue Reading