Guarding our tongues is key part of our Christian witness in an increasingly vulgar world. Those around us notice how we talk, and our speech provides opportunities to bring glory to God.   In late elementary and early middle school, I spent a blissful week each summer attending music camp on the campus of Catholic... Continue Reading

When a society totally abandons the transcendent reality of Christ’s present kingship as well as an expectation of his future consummated reign, then that society will also lose all good and true politics.   Ever since Augustine’s The City of God Western political thought has kept some kind of separation—in lesser or greater degrees—between heavenly... Continue Reading

“…I could no longer question His existence. I hadn’t gone through any human or heavenly intermediary to get this. No one was trying to convert me to anything. I hadn’t even told anyone I was searching for anything. And frankly, anything is what I was searching for, not specifically God.”   I deeply love my... Continue Reading

True obedience involves doing some things, and not doing other things. The truly spiritual person (in Jesus) only wants to do those things that please his or her Heavenly Father; and he or she desires to avoid doing the things that displease Him.   The words of the title for this treatise (above) were addressed... Continue Reading

We are not syncretists. We are not compromisers. We are conquerors, reclaiming lost territory for its rightful King. Armed with this theological justification, we are now ready to begin the critical work of sifting the gold from the dross, starting with the Stoic’s most central concept: virtue.   In our first two articles, we have... Continue Reading

Man and woman have nothing to hold against each other. Each has quite glorious virtues and each has rather serious defects. There is room for neither disparagement nor deification with respect to either of them.   At the turn of the twentieth century, Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) found himself confronted by a society increasingly... Continue Reading

We should not be surprised that the people (church) of God have always known and believed in the doctrine of the Trinity, (be they in the Old Covenant or the New). It has been in existence from before the creation of the world—and its “light” has dawned on us through the One through whom the world was created,... Continue Reading

To trust God in our suffering, even while we ache, is to have an inward attitude of yielding contentment in God’s sovereign plan for our lives, which brings us hope and peace amid tumultuous difficulty. The prophet Isaiah has proclaimed for us to repeat: You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on... Continue Reading

It is difficult to accept that an association of confessional Reformed Baptist churches is fully aware of and endorses a member pastor’s public teaching that the Son of God became a created angel and that the Masoretic Text is a “diabolical corruption.” If this is true, then the network itself is failing in its duty... Continue Reading

The jubilee had a twofold message. To the wealthy, the jubilee was a small picture of death, a reminder that worldly possession cannot be held onto forever. To the poor, the jubilee was a tangible hope that they were not condemned to perpetual poverty.   And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying…Every... Continue Reading