You are vulnerable to outside voices tempting you to give in, but the best remedy for standing firm for the long haul is to remain in God’s Word, continually steeping yourself in his perspective and truth. When I speak about how the Bible should inform our sexuality, someone invariably comes up to me and says,... Continue Reading

The alternative to BTTY is to seek meaning outside of ourselves in Jesus Christ. But how does faith in and submission to God—our infinite, external authority—satisfy rather than stifle us as human beings?   “Be true to yourself.” -EVERYONE This cultural gospel is so common it doesn’t strike us as odd. Put simply, BTTY asserts that... Continue Reading

How is it that the transcendent, majestic, sovereign God could stoop Himself so low to our earthly affairs? How is it that the Son, who is God Himself (what a mysterious union this is, that Jesus is both the Son of God and God the Son, truly God and truly man!), condescends to our lowly... Continue Reading

There is a God who spoke this ancient stone into existence, when the first dawn broke over this landscape, when the ochre red rejoiced at its own birth. No explorers were there to sketch it, no photographer to capture its light. When God commanded that stone to stand as a sentinel, or that the twisting... Continue Reading

Perhaps the most astounding aspect of this book to me is that in a book about knowing the times in which one lives, and the 1940s-70s were very different times than my own, I found myself constantly making a note in the margins of my book that a statement or a comment he had just... Continue Reading

We see all these things, and it suddenly makes simple work of life. In these days of seeming complexity, we can come back to this: Trust in God. Trust in His word and definition of reality. Follow Him, and He will take care of us. That’s it. And we can breathe again. The weight of... Continue Reading

Wokeness is built on a worldview without salvation and offers an eschatology with no real hope. Though the proclaimed goal is to end oppression, it’s what the late sociologist Philip Rieff called a “deathwork,” dedicated to tearing down things but unable to build, or offer, anything better. Advocates of critical race theory, for example, argue... Continue Reading

Why would we check our baggage at the door when we go to meet the God who is able to do more than all we ask or imagine and who invites us to cast our cares upon Him? Rehearsing the gospel in the service of worship and partaking of the means of grace remind us... Continue Reading

Satan uses suffering to turn people from faith and to convince them that God is indifferent to their deepest struggles. Some demand that God remove their suffering, and when he doesn’t, they become disillusioned and turn away. Others blame God for all the pain in the world and see suffering as a justification for their... Continue Reading

He awakes in His Lord’s presence, and hears the sweetest words . . . “well done, good and faithful servant.” Perhaps for our man, there was an addendum. “You have been faithful in humility, distrusting yourself and the cultural dogmas swirling around you. Instead, you have trusted my past revelation for your present and future.... Continue Reading