If you’re wondering whether to make the effort to sing this Sunday, consider this. Singing to God might be just what your soul needs. And the person sitting in front of you at church? It might just be what they need as well.   I don’t remember ever crying much at church. I’m not a... Continue Reading

In both Acts 19 and today, the root issue is financial idolatry. Money has always been a powerful false god, and people will go to extreme lengths to protect it. Jesus warned, “You cannot serve God and money” (Matthew 6:24). When profit depends upon deception, any challenge to that deception will be met with hostility.  ... Continue Reading

Amidst the technical details of the Ark, God speaks a word that changes human history: “But I will establish my covenant with you.” This is the first time the word covenant (berith) appears in the Bible. A covenant is more than a contract; it is a binding bond of life and death, sovereignly administered by God.  ... Continue Reading

If Christians are never taught how to rank obligations, decisions default to feeling. The most emotional appeal becomes the most moral. Urgency replaces wisdom. Volume replaces discernment. Public life turns into a contest of outrage. The loudest voice wins—not because it is right, but because it is relentless. Once ethics are untethered from order, volume... Continue Reading

The most puzzling thing about humanity is our inability to repent without God’s intervention. But the most wonderful thing is that God does intervene. He opens blind eyes. He softens hard hearts. He gives faith where there was none. And He assures us of this miracle when we can sincerely confess the truths of Scripture,... Continue Reading

To deny the Incarnation and subsequent exclusivity of Christ is to deny the Gospel which “is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (Rom. 1:16). Christians must hold fast to the confession that Jesus Christ is, in the most literal sense, God Incarnate. Through the expectations of the Old Testament, Jesus’s fulfillment... Continue Reading

If you kill the one true God, the Many will rise again. We all have that sensus divinitatis, as Calvin put it—we’re hardwired to sense our need for something beyond us and to give it worship, even if we suppress and distort it. Bavinck was right: Leaving God for “no god” is spiritually impossible. Religious nature... Continue Reading

In Psalm 89, the writer recalls God’s promises to David: “Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David. His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me. Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithfulness witness in the skies” (Ps. 89:35–37).... Continue Reading

One of the great dangers of the moment is mistaking posture for power. Rhetorical aggression can look like leadership. Contempt can masquerade as discernment. Constant opposition can feel like courage. But Scripture does not define masculinity by how sharply a man critiques the world. It defines it by how faithfully he orders his life.  ... Continue Reading

The Bible is admired by many because of its presentation of history, the personalities used by God that provide wonderful narratives, the beauty of its language, and all the other glories of Scripture, but without the work of God as the Spirit illumines the reader’s understanding, one cannot have a saving understanding. The Spirit cannot... Continue Reading