A Modest Proposal: We Are The Satire
Modern American culture has achieved an eerie resemblance to Jonathan Swift's satirical essay recommending infant cannibalism.
Not only is Planned Parenthood engaged in haggling over body parts and organs of murdered children, but the gods of this world are feasting on our children – the gods of entertainment, pleasure, reputation, influence, sports, education, safety, security, etc. – and too many of us are making them plump for the eating. We have become... Continue Reading
Black Christians, Personhood, And Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood fallout, personhood, and the Black community's relationship with the organization.
When it comes to personhood, Planned Parenthood occupies a “special place” in the life and history of the African American community. In its infancy, Planned Parenthood serviced many urban communities. It’s still true today, where well over 75% of its clinics are found in minority neighborhoods. On average, over 1,000 Black babies are aborted every... Continue Reading
How We Made Too Much of Gender
Reclaiming an identity more meaningful than manhood or womanhood.
I’m not minimizing the difficult reality of Jenner’s condition, gender dysphoria, and others like Jenner. Still, we’re all experiencing the consequences of a cultural fixation on gender. A man or woman, a boy or girl, who tends toward the features considered “the other” might question his or her identity in a way that may not have happened... Continue Reading
A Pastor’s Reflections: The Way of the Cross and Criticism
If you always want to avoid criticism, chances are that you’re trying to avoid the way of the cross.
Christ, Paul, and the other apostles were all subjected to withering criticism. If you’re a pastor and find yourself under the fire of criticism, then you’re in good company. Don’t look for a way out—after prayerful consideration of whether the criticism is valid—press on and follow in the footsteps of Christ. Press forward in the... Continue Reading
God Would Rather Pour Out Mercy Than Wrath
"Mercy is God’s right hand that he is most used to; inflicting punishment is called his strange work."
Multitudes in our country are getting what they want. They are celebrating sin. But in getting what they want, in his wrath, God is giving them over to their sin. Yet God still desires to rescue them from his wrath. So we should pray that God would have mercy on multitudes in this nation, bring... Continue Reading
Jesus Loves The Little Children
In the ancient world, it was uniquely the Jewish people who prohibited abortion and infanticide. Christians have always opposed killing children, whether outside or inside the womb.
Despite the muddled arguments of progressive Christian groups and denominations (whose obfuscation with language is positively Orwellian), opposition to abortion and infanticide is not simply one position for Christians, it is the Christian position. Oddly enough, it’s sometimes progressives who are most eager to move the culture backward. As we reflect in horror at the utter callousness... Continue Reading
Heidelberg 91: What Are Good Works? (Part 2)
Any work that does not proceed from true faith, is no good work at all.
True faith is said to be the sole instrument (sola fide) of justification and salvation. True faith is also the instrument of union and communion with Christ and it is the headwaters of the believer’s new, Spirit-wrought life in Christ. In other words, true faith is essential to good works. In part 1 we focused... Continue Reading
How Should Christians Respond to Attacks and Insults?
It's part of our human nature to respond to personal attacks with sadness, anger, or bitterness. These feelings are part of our fallen humanity.
I had allowed my soul to become distressed, and that was sin. Instead of seeing the attack on me as an occasion to imitate Christ and to grow in my sanctification, I had resisted God’s Spirit, who had brought this painful event into my life for my edification, that I might remember where my treasure is.... Continue Reading
JoyFul Exiles
God’s kingdom does not advance despite opposition from the world, but as a result of it.
According to Peter, this time in between the inauguration and the consummation is a time that is marked by God’s grace so that all may be brought in to the kingdom before the second coming of Christ. When talk turns to exile, Christians ought to understand the full sense of that term. God’s kingdom... Continue Reading
Bruce Jenner, Gay Marriage, and Planned Parenthood: The Self-Deification of a Nation
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
My fellow Christians, it is the preaching of that Gospel—and that Gospel alone—that will bow the arrogant heart of self-deification that revels in transgenderism, homosexualism, and abortion. Let us be pray-ers and let us be preachers, for the sake of our nation and for the sake of God’s glory. The last few months have... Continue Reading