Best Teachers Could Be Your Parents, “Homeschool Awakening” Documentary Suggests
14 featured families are driven to challenge these norms and more through their homeschooling lifestyles.
The parents in the film realized their responsibility in shaping their children’s minds. The benefits of homeschooling outweighed the sacrifices. The parents explained how homeschooling set them free to individualize learning unique to each child’s needs, and his or her style and pace of learning; to preserve their child’s identity, protecting them from negative outside influences; to... Continue Reading
Prophetic Passion and Resistance Thinking
Where are the prophets among us?
Nearly two decades ago Os Guinness released a brief but powerful volume entitled Prophetic Untimeliness (Baker, 2003). It is well worth revisiting – or for many of you, being introduced to for the first time. In his Introduction he explains the book’s title: “Prophetic Untimeliness is a term adapted from the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche but shaped by... Continue Reading
The Virtue of Picking a Fight
Why We Need Twice the Courage and Half the Niceness
When the fool is struck by the Word, those with understanding will understand and beware (Pro. 19:25). The lost have seen plenty of capitulation and flip-flopping all around them. What often sets them back, awakening them to grace, is seeing men and women of God stand with conviction for the whole counsel of God without... Continue Reading
Jonah — Preacher of Repentance (6) The Sign of Jonah
Unlike Israel, Nineveh Believes and Repents
In the story of Jonah’s preaching to the Ninevites, and in Jesus’ warning to Israel, we hear God’s call to repent of our sins and place our trust in Jesus, the greater Jonah, whom God sent to save us from our sins. The question now before us is this: “will we be witnesses against our... Continue Reading
How do You Know if You Love Jesus?
If you know what love looks like at a human level, then you already know what it looks like to love Jesus.
Religious activity can make you feel “Christian”, at least for a little while. But if your Christianity is founded on you doing something for God, it has no root and will die in due time. A true, deeply rooted faith is founded in love for a person: Jesus. Anything less and you will either abandon the faith when... Continue Reading
Gods of Sex
Embedded in the ever-thickening LGBTQ+ alphabet soup is a wide variety of sexual options, all of which erase the male/female distinction.
The church must either announce the holiness of sex publicly through clear Gospel preaching about the person of God, while showing love to both God and the neighbor (the essence of Twoism); or it must remain silent under the culture’s determination to eliminate all distinctions and to call gospel preaching hate speech (the essence of... Continue Reading
Looking for Life in All the Wrong Places: The Book of Ruth, Ch. 1
Elimelech’s family found weakness and death away from God and his people.
Perhaps you think you are better off living a private Christianity outside of the local church. Christ’s church is a messy place, full of saved sinners who will rub each other the wrong way, sin against each other, ignore each other, or try to control each other. While you may feel you get some benefit... Continue Reading
Are You Maladjusted
Maladjusted Christians? Yes, in the eyes of the world this will always be the case.
It will only be in the next life that we discover how much of an impact we really did have. But even that should not be our main concern. Our real aim must be to love God fully and seek to do his will. And yes, to do his will fully and fervently will mean that we will be... Continue Reading
“He Will Come to Judge”
In the Creed, following Scripture, we confess Christ's purpose in returning: He will come back to judge.
God will intervene to destroy the present world with fire (2 Pet 3:4-10). And that last Day will not only be a Day of Destruction, but also a Day of Judgment. From His seat in the Holy of Holies in heaven, Christ will return to judge, and all will see His glory. Until that Day,... Continue Reading
Remember Who Overturned Roe
Let’s not miss the truth that ultimately, the story of Roe v. Wade being overturned is a story about God.
Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The Lord has answered our prayers. He has established the work of our hands and brought forth fruit from our labors. And now we can declare with the psalmist that “those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!” (Ps. 126:5). Tomorrow there will still be work to do.... Continue Reading
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