Holiness in Corporate Worship
If delight is at the heart of God’s Sabbath rest, should it not be in ours as well?
We have the holy duty of delight to clear and align our [Lord’s] day so that we may best rest in our Lord. This rest is accomplished not through laziness or isolation but with a holy vigor, as we earnestly pursue the service of God in both private and public worship. Having grown up... Continue Reading
Digital Discipleship for Your Children, Part I
Prepare and shape your children to have Christian imaginations amidst the digital deluge.
Technology is here to stay, and can be harnessed helpfully. We can worship, work, and play as worshippers and image-bearers without a total ban on screens or online access. But such spiritual success will only come with some vigorous cultivation. A little over eleven years ago, I published Save Them From Secularism. I wanted... Continue Reading
Do We Really Believe That Singleness and Marriage Are Equal in God’s Sight?
Our marital status does not impact whether we are of value to God.
It is good for us to understand that the modern focus on marriage in the church is not how it has always been. The monastic movement, for all its flaws, was an attempt to take 1 Corinthians 7 seriously and to use your life to wholeheartedly serve Jesus without the divided interests that come from... Continue Reading
Why Did God the Son Become Human?
By assuming our humanity, the Son becomes the representative man of Psalm 8—the last Adam.
Hebrews 2:5–18 gloriously explains why the divine Son had to become human to redeem us from our sin and to restore us to the purpose of our creation. It’s no wonder that Jesus alone can save us, given our plight before God and the kind of Redeemer he is. In the eleventh century, Anselm... Continue Reading
Blaming the Devil for Bad Things Denies God Is Sovereign
When we only attribute good things to God’s action, we limit him.
We need to hold onto the truth that God is sovereign, that even through hardships he is working what is good. If we don’t, when hardship comes we will either label God impotent (by blaming the evil) or we’ll question his goodness. Imagine you wake up early in the morning and tuning into the... Continue Reading
Corinth, Christ and Celebritiesb
Enough of celebrity Christianity.
Televangelists and mega-church pastors strut their stuff for all the world to see. Not all misuse and abuse their positions in this way of course, but far too many do. And how often does mere eloquence, wit, good looks or youth become some of the main qualifications? In many ways things are not so... Continue Reading
Do Christians Deserve to Be Blessed?
We all know people who have received good things they didn’t deserve, as well as others who have received bad things they didn’t deserve.
Actions do have consequences in this world. If people are mean, they won’t have many friends. If plants aren’t watered, they will die. On the other hand, a person who is driving safely might be hit and killed by a drunk driver. Cancer may strike a little child for no known reason. Both believers and... Continue Reading
Only One House
There is only one church of God, the temple of His people among whom He dwells.
Moses acted servant in the house of God, whereas Christ acted as the Son over the house. The difference is one of authority. Jesus has divine authority over the church of God since he is himself the eternal divine Son. The writer hotes this contrast when he says, “Jesus has been counted worthy of more... Continue Reading
The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy: Article XIV
We cling to the words of God is because the testimonies of the Lord carry in them the only epistemological veracity of objective truth itself.
The Christian believer has the explicit presupposition that God and his word is never wrong or in error. That is, there is an element of faith working to supersede what we see so that in any instant, God (and the character of God) is being trusted more than our eyes and minds. If God says... Continue Reading
Holiness of Body and Soul
God cares about our soul and body. We must not sever what God has bound together.
Underneath Paul’s theology of the body is the reality that human beings are both material and immaterial, and these two are inseparable. Soul piety leads to bodily piety because, in God’s design, the body and soul are inseparably linked. If the body is merely a neutral (or evil) capsule for the soul, then we are... Continue Reading
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