The Significance of the Sinlessness of Jesus
Our Lord’s obedience stands in the place of His people’s sin.
Christ’s sinless life is set against the background of the scriptural testimony to the sinfulness of man. Job declared that man is “abominable and corrupt,” one who “drinks injustice like water” (Job 15:16). Solomon acknowledged, “there is no one who does not sin” (1 Kings 8:46). The apostle John warned, “If we say we have... Continue Reading
It’s Time for a New Culture War Strategy
Without explicit legal protections, religious institutions with traditional convictions around homosexuality and transgenderism will likely face a torrent of litigation in the years ahead.
Some people take Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option to mean a wholesale retreat from the public square. That’s not the way of faithfulness. We must continue to make the case for Christian convictions and continue to be involved in politics, in higher education, in the media, and wherever else we can be a “faithful presence.” But retreat is... Continue Reading
My Own Personal Jesus
It has been rightly said that the human heart is an idol-factory, and one of the most popular idols we create in our day and age is the false Jesus.
If Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation for a lost and dying world, what happens if we proclaim a Jesus who is merely a figment of our own imagination rather than the Jesus Christ revealed in the Holy Scriptures? Answer. We proclaim a false Christ which amounts to a false Gospel, and a... Continue Reading
Six Reasons the Church in America is Becoming Increasingly Impotent
Every Christian, regardless of education, occupation, or socio-economic station, is a theologian—a student of God’s Word.
The reasons why evangelicalism in America is so powerless, in my estimation, number exponentially more than six. In fact, it could easily be six-thousand—or six-million (or more). Nevertheless, given the character-count constraints of Twitter®, I was obliged to be as concise as possible in sharing my opinions—and they are only opinions. “We can never worship God... Continue Reading
Applying Revoice’s Logic to All Sin – Part 1
Much of the error in Revoice’s discussion of same-sex attraction is their treatment of it as a “special sin,” different from other sins.
sinners having orientations does not negate moral culpability. Same-sex attraction is not special. It is sinful desire, a motion of original sin, and is always morally culpable sin. These five articles argue that same-sex attraction cannot be sublimated to holiness for 2 reasons: (1) No attraction contrary to God’s design can be sublimated to holiness.... Continue Reading
Metaphors and the Mission of God
In a day when Christians have all but lost the culture war in America, it is incumbent on us to listen carefully to what the Savior told His disciples upon their first missionary journey.
In the ancient wartime manual, The Art of War, Sun Tzu explained, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in... Continue Reading
The Road to Bostock
Mesmerized by the surface appearance of cultural phenomena in isolation, we consequently fail to see how specific breaks with previous social norms—say, views of morality or gender—are functions of much deeper cultural changes.
I was reminded of Farrow’s book this week when I read Justice Gorsuch’s opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County and surveyed the shock and outrage surrounding this Supreme Court ruling. Many of us knew in 2017 that Gorsuch was not a religious conservative, whatever his personal politics or judicial philosophy might be. That he has taken the critical... Continue Reading
Social Justice is an Attack on the Sufficiency of Scripture
When people lack a sufficient Bible they lack a guiding light.
Make no mistake about it, the Word of God is sufficient and the very moment that we take a step away from the sufficiency of God’s Word we take a step into darkness. Let me begin by stating that while I disagree with the social justice agenda and believe it to be a dangerous movement,... Continue Reading
Of Mice And Men And Sacred Work
We might actually learn something about ourselves in the observation of mice.
In the 20th century, however, psychologists began to adore these pink-tailed creatures as test subjects for their studies on one particular subject: human behavior. Today, because of how rodents react to various stimuli in scientific research, the world has adopted a certain view of what makes a human being tick. In fact, many public and... Continue Reading
Does “Systemic Racism” Exist?
Systemic racism does not primarily refer to overt acts of racial hostility, but to ideologies and policies that produce racial disparities.
A concise definition of “systemic racism” would be something like “systems which create or perpetuate racial disparities.” In contrast to a traditional understanding of racism, which focuses on individual acts of racial prejudice and animosity, “systemic racism” would produce racial disparities even in the absence of personal, individual bigotry. In the aftermath of the... Continue Reading
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