What Happens When a Society Abandons Christianity?
Nature Abhors a Vacuum, and Islam Is Filling One in the West
The choice is not a Christian society or a secular society. The choice is increasingly becoming between a woke society and an Islamic society, both of which are oppressive. If we truly want to be free, and live lives in truth, beauty, and goodness, the only option is to return to a Christian society. That... Continue Reading
Five Books to Help You Give Your Children God’s Word
Dear parent, God has given you his word, and wherever God's word is, there Jesus is!
Dear parent, God has given you his word so that you might be instructed and have hope through the endurance and encouragement of the word (Romans 15:4). And this is the instruction and hope that your dear children need: the instruction and hope of God’s word. Parents of young children feel the pressure of... Continue Reading
What’s the Big Deal with Worship?
In Revelation chapters 4-5, we glimpse the ultimate worship gathering, and it reminds us what gathered worship does.
What does gathered worship do? It declares that this world is a lie. More than that, it centres us around the throne of God – for God is on the throne whatever we may be facing down here. It gathers God’s people around his throne – for God is worthy of every note of praise... Continue Reading
Family Worship as Warfare
Is your home preparing your children to be dynamic, bold, and ardent worshippers of Christ? Or is it preparing them for something else?
One of the most important works you will ever do is bringing family worship into your home. Family worship will disciple your children in the faith, give them ownership that this faith belongs to them, and prepare them for the war they will be engaged with in the years ahead. Christianity’s Helm’s Deep If... Continue Reading
A Resilient Church on the Fringe
The world of the twentieth century is passing away and the institutional arrangements that have undergirded the church will need to alter in the face of this.
The idea is to take an existing church and alter it so that it can be lean, effective, and build owned space. The goals are to make the institutional church cheaper, more agile, and more effective, whilst making the Christian community more resilient in the face of hostility and change. Strategic Thinking for the... Continue Reading
Welcome Requires Walls
We are not to compromise by taking the walls down, but we are to welcome everyone to come over the threshold.
We need difference—the difference between the Church and world is what we usually call holiness—and then we need to behave like Christians and radically welcome people within the bounds of our homes and churches, without having to knock down all the walls, expecting that the encounters around the table will change all of us. Sounds... Continue Reading
Polygamy (or Something Like It) Rises
Plural marriage is inferior for raising children and for maintaining marital harmony, but most of all it promotes adult sexual self-expression rather than the good of children.
Reconceiving of marriage in terms of “self-expression” has been a terrible, value-laden mistake, betraying the pretensions to liberal neutrality. Plural marriage is inferior for raising children and for maintaining marital harmony; but most of all, in today’s climate, it creates a culture dedicated to adult sexual self-expression rather than the good of children and deep... Continue Reading
Arkansas Enacts Given Name Act.
Here’s What Parents of Schoolchildren There—and Elsewhere—Need to Know
The more we learn about the dangers of so-called gender treatments, and the more we discover the lengths to which school officials will go to keep secrets from parents, the more urgent it becomes for lawmakers to act quickly to protect students and families. Arkansas lawmakers delivered a clear message to parents of K-12 students this... Continue Reading
5 Myths about Human Reasoning
In any sound reasoning, we are imitating the original rationality that belongs to God. We are dependent on God and on his knowledge.
Human reasoning, intuition, emotions, and all the other aspects of who we are all contaminated by sin (Ephesians 4:17–19). No one of these areas of human life is absolutely trustworthy. Christ came to redeem us comprehensively. That includes not only giving us the forgiveness of our sins, but through the Holy Spirit progressively moving us... Continue Reading
The Ultimate Authority for the One-Another Ministry We Call “Counseling”
The Bible truly is sufficient to minister to the soul.
Without an infallible Bible we have no authority to counsel people regarding what they must believe and do, or how God expects us to change. However, because we possess the infallible Word of God, we also possess divinely delegated authority to counsel according to its precepts and principles. We can and must say to others, “Thus... Continue Reading
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