“According to God’s directive, a good king would not be focused on collecting personal horses, gaining plural wives, or acquiring pockets full of silver and gold. Consequently, he would not legislate and guide based upon that which would profit himself and his preferred party.”   When it comes to the President of the United States or any other... Continue Reading

“Many of us pray more reactively than proactively. Prayer is not in our DNA; it is only our response when we face something we can’t handle. That kind of praying misses the point of being in a relationship with God.”   At this time last year, I wrote a post on “10 Questions for a... Continue Reading

“What hand did Satan play in Eden? He laid his regular ace: attacking identity. He tempted Eve to believe God was not who he said he is. Adam negated his identity as a male, as one who was to protect and lead; Eve wandered outside of Adam’s authority, foiling her womanhood.”   Nine people are dead. Before we... Continue Reading

“If attendees at the conference in Houston were to be believed, Hispanic evangelicals are eager to vote, and in substantial numbers. Yet unlike Hispanic Catholics, who overwhelmingly reflect the Democratic party platform on several key issues, Latino evangelicals share political sensibilities with both parties. This has made their voting habits increasingly uncertain.”   As I... Continue Reading

“In our entire legal history, no one bothered to legislate a restriction of marriage to sexually complementary couples until the day before yesterday because everyone understood what “marriage” meant and would (if asked) have thought it naturally impossible for two men or two women to marry.”   In the same-sex-marriage case recently argued in the... Continue Reading

“One of the most important sources of comfort with respect to the intercession of Christ in behalf of the believer is found in Jesus’ great High Priestly Prayer, which itself was a profound prayer of intercession. Remarkably, even we are mentioned in this great prayer of intercession.”   As an ordained minister, I’ve had experience... Continue Reading

“The Proverbs give us 10 father-to-son talks in which the father is teaching his son to be discerning. There is no room for naive optimism in these talks; they are serious and strong, raw and real. In fact, training our children to be discerning and wise is one of the foremost callings that God has given... Continue Reading

“I am afraid that the majority of U.S. citizens see the U.S.A. simply as the “good guys” and the terrorists as the “bad guys.” Indeed, there are relative degrees of goodness or wickedness between nations (leading to conflicts between them). But we have to recognize that the ultimate conflict on this earth is the opposition... Continue Reading

“Just in the past few days, Tony Campolo announced his support for same-sex couples’ inclusion in the church, while Franklin Graham announced that he would pull Billy Graham Evangelistic Association accounts from LGBT-friendly Wells Fargo bank. On top of that, retired editor of Christianity Today David Neff announced his support for gay marriage.”   Ahead of... Continue Reading

“They are not saved however, unless they have fiducia.  They need to trust their eternal destinies to the work of Christ and nothing else.  Until they trust that Jesus Christ did these things for them and they trust their lives (present and future) to Him and to His saving work (his passive and active obedience) they are not... Continue Reading