Let’s be those who set our hearts, but let’s also set our alarms! Don’t laze around! Don’t sit on your hands. Make efforts to seek His face. Make plans to be godly. And may God help us to seek Him more diligently.   And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a... Continue Reading

“This year taught me something I should have learned decades ago. Life is short. Life is fragile. And none of it is guaranteed. Scripture tells us to number our days, not drift through them. Use the time you have. Steward it. Refuse to waste it.”   I am the firstborn son of Clarence and Mary... Continue Reading

Buy ten copies. Give one to every man in your church. Give one to your elders and ask them to preach its content from the pulpit. Give one to the twenty-something who just confessed his struggle and was told by the last book he read that his desires are “part of his story.”   Jared... Continue Reading

We can save future generations from spiritual devastation. We can bring down those high rates of agreement that “life often feels meaningless.” We can—and must—defeat the Devil and reclaim childhood in the real world.   Earlier this year, someone started a viral trend of asking ChatGPT this question: If you were the devil, how would... Continue Reading

The point of Christ’s birth is that it both involves and transcends our human existence, thus redeeming it. In the midst of broken immigration systems and riots in the streets, let us turn our eyes to eternity and call on His mighty name that will never be overcome: “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”... Continue Reading

The New Year is upon us. If you want, make a book list, but you don’t have to. And if you want, share it with others, but you don’t have to. But if you do, do it for the good reasons, not the bad ones.   It’s that time of year again. Time for resolutions,... Continue Reading

If we are to appreciate the full vision that Augustine lays forth in this monumental work, then we should read it from beginning to end. His writing rewards the patient reader, and following him through the twists and turns of his prose will gain an education in how to think with integrity and intensity from... Continue Reading

Preaching should always move from understanding the meaning of the words of the text to seeing through the text to the reality to which it points so that its implications can be absorbed into our mind, will, and also affections, by which our understanding is existentially connected to the text and we appropriate the reality it... Continue Reading

When it comes to political division, often we as Christians celebrate those who align with us and tolerate those who do not. But we are to find our alignment with another kingdom and allegiance to our anointed Lord, something comprehensive and continual.   See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone… 1 Thessalonians... Continue Reading

James instructs us that there are two categories of faith—(1) faith that has works and is thus living and (2) faith that does not have works and is thus dead. Works and faith are not the same thing. Rather, works are produced by a genuine faith and are, therefore, evidence of it.   Dead Faith... Continue Reading