Conscience has always played an indispensable role in Christianity.  Jonathan Edwards calls conscience “the instrument in the hand of God, to accuse, condemn, terrify, and to urge to duty.”  The importance of individual conscience stands out conspicuously in the Bible.  However, within the moral universe of leftism, the concept of victimhood silences or perverts individual conscience.    With astonishing... Continue Reading

Not only are we never going to be able to truly know all that God knows, we are never going to be able to know in the way that God knows things. In other words, when God knows something He understands all of it. For Himself, He knows Himself completely and in absolute perfection. When He knows... Continue Reading

The truth of God’s common grace is driven home when we ask how it is that people who lie under the wrath of God experience so many good gifts at the hand of God. How do we account for the extraordinary gifts, talents, and accomplishments of those who are unregenerate? How is it that so... Continue Reading

The meaning of Ebenezer originates more than a thousand years before Christ, during the ministry of the prophet Samuel, who played a pivotal role at a key juncture in the history of God’s people. Long has he been remembered as one of Israel’s greatest figures, alongside names like Moses and David. God raised up Samuel as the... Continue Reading

Sarah Perry recently wrote a fascinating post on the subject of technology as ‘de-condensation’. While I ended up demurring at her claims about our entering an ‘age of recondensation’, I believe the core thesis of the post provides an exceptionally useful lens through which to consider a number of cultural changes. The post also advances concepts that... Continue Reading

When Chau’s death became international news, many Christians were keen to disavow his actions; Chau’s father believes the American missionary community is culpable in his son’s death. John was an “innocent child”, his father told me, who died from an “extreme” vision of Christianity taken to its logical conclusion.   One day, as a small... Continue Reading

The call to wait on God is an invitation to trust and hope. It entails believing that one day — even if today is not that day — he will make all things right. In times of waiting, as we seek God in prayer, we must learn to listen to him as well as talk to him... Continue Reading

In the Fourth Commandment we see the concept for six days of work, which is just as commanded as the one day of rest, followed by the Sabbath observance  on the seventh day.  The widespread, nondiscriminatory nature of the observance, which simply includes “no work”, extends from the individual, to family, to servants, to livestock,... Continue Reading

Though pastors in training often earn Masters of Divinity degrees, they simply cannot master God, but can only be mastered by him, or fail to be. How then can we know God, if he is beyond us? Together with affirming God’s “incomprehensibility,” Calvin emphasized that God graciously overcomes our natural inability so that we truly... Continue Reading

Addictions always involve some idolatry of the heart that, when pursued repeatedly, conditions the soul and the body in such a way that the freedom of personhood becomes warped, bent toward a particular object and, far worse, bent away from God. When this happens, the most entrenched kind of sin takes over a person’s motivations.... Continue Reading