Race, Homosexuality and Historical Confusion
Biblical teaching has been co-opted to support a politically-popular position enabling Christians to comfortably fit into the cultural values of their times.
The hermeneutical twists used to discredit the clear teaching of Holy Scripture on homosexuality is evidence of a desperate frenzy to re-interpret Christianity in order to make it palatable to the homosexual community. One approach of gay-affirming scholarship has been to claim the church has modified its interpretations over the centuries. This includes not... Continue Reading
Soul Is Making a Comeback
When technology envelopes all of life, will we remember that we are more than just machines?
The old paths still stand. We must mow away the overgrown grass. But the path can hold us. We can hold it. Because I suspect—no, believe—that the more the machine and its technique envelop us, the more we will notice our lack of spiritual sight. And the more our souls will yearn for something more... Continue Reading
Let Someone Serve You in Suffering
There is joy in serving. But there is also humility and grace in allowing ourselves to be served.
When we ask for help, God blesses us through the hands of others, and he blesses them in return. What feels humbling to us may become joy to them. I don’t like asking for help. Frankly, I’d rather take care of myself, by myself. But independence has become a thing of the past for... Continue Reading
Toward a Christian-Household Philosophy of Technology
Four principles to help parents understand how and why technologies shape children.
Because we become what we behold—either for our glory or our ruin—it is of the utmost importance for parents to have a framework which reorients the attentional life of a household away from the shallows of internet-connected digital technologies towards the depths of communion with the Triune God. Abstract Internet-connected digital technologies are having... Continue Reading
Open Truth
Treat Toxicity with Truth (Part 3 of 8)
What lies in the heart is truer than what lies on the surface (1 Samuel 16:7). Man focuses on the outward; God, the inward. When we’re committed to the truth, we’re committed to the inward. We humble ourselves to be shaped by God’s Word, and we open ourselves up to the possibility that God is... Continue Reading
Don’t Miss the Holy Spirit
Searching for the spectacular may cause us to overlook His true work.
In most of biblically recorded history, God’s people were seeking to live faithfully during seemingly mundane times. Most people throughout history lived and died without ever witnessing anything we today would label “miraculous,” and yet every single one of those people had direct access to the work of God’s Spirit…Want to know where the Spirit... Continue Reading
The Unchained Word: A Public Theology of Free Speech
Speech is the instrumental good that allows human beings and political communities to search for the truth, utter the truth, correct falsehood, and refine truth with greater precision.
Protecting one’s moral faculties to pursue moral goods by law ensures human beings and communities reach their proper end, which is consistent with the idea of the common good in Christian social teaching. From this perspective, free speech is a matter of political justice, since speech allows us as created beings and citizens to obtain... Continue Reading
How David Prophesied the Resurrection of Christ
When Jesus is raised in his body from the dead, he fulfills the prophecy of Psalm 16:9–11.
How then does Psalm 16 prophecy the resurrection of Christ? It does so like this: It says, with a glorious shining assurance, that when a man walks this earth who truly loves God alone with a pure and undivided devotion all the days of his life, that man will not—cannot!—die and his body rot. It simply cannot... Continue Reading
Stop and See the Stars: Medieval Mysteries and Contemporary Christians
In an age of increasing learning, developing, and innovating, the medieval world and its cosmology, encourages us to slow down.
The medieval cosmos reminds us that the world is not a machine but a divinely established order: “a rational order that keeps the world in balance, keeping it from spinning out of control.” Scientific discovery has overthrown such previous cosmologies from a factual standpoint: we live in a heliocentric universe ruled by the laws of... Continue Reading
A Tedious Slog through More Soft Feminism
Elders are being squeezed out of our churches when we bring in something like Alongside Care.
I certainly know that not all elders are qualified or godly. Before resorting to a soft feminism, try this: Vote out bad, unqualified elders. After reading this book and its sexist claims against godly elders, re-read the qualifications for elders and see if any of those are reflected in the disdain elders are treated with... Continue Reading
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