He Knows What Is In The Darkness
We were not created to live in darkness.
There is something tremendous in this statement. So often, we see darkness around us. Daniel was living in dark days. He and his friends had been taken into captivity, forced to learn the foreign ways, and even had their Hebrew names changed. There was much darkness in their world, but they were learning that their... Continue Reading
Death in the Pot and the Meaning of Scripture
When reading Scripture consider these two questions: What is God teaching me about Himself? What is God requiring of me? We’ll then begin to accurately understand the meaning.
Most of us have never experienced a famine. We live in a land of such abundance of food that we have become vain to the point of widespread gluttony, excess, wastefulness, and discontent. How thankful should Christians be to the Lord for the abundance of food He provides each and every day? And Elisha... Continue Reading
The Rarest Commodity
Ultimately, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are only found in Jesus Christ.
When we come to Christ, we learn to live in a way that is pleasing to God. We seek after His instruction and walk in His ways. Jesus is the rarest commodity–the eternal wisdom of God and sole source of righteousness and life. It is Him we must learn to seek, find, and acquire more... Continue Reading
No Longer I Who Mother
Our strength, endurance, and joy can be daily and rigorously rooted in who Christ is for us and who we are in him.
When your children mature and become less dependent on you, and you start to feel useless, remember that in Christ you were created for good works before time began (Ephesians 2:10). God has important and necessary tasks for you in this new season. Those good works may have been more focused on your children for... Continue Reading
The Holy Love of God
Augustine of Hippo pointed out that the desire of every human heart is to experience a love that is transcendent.
The love of God is in a class by itself. It transcends our experience. Nevertheless, it is a love that He shares in part with us and expects us to manifest to each other. He grants to His people—insofar as is possible given the Creator-creature distinction—His holy love (Rom. 5:5). Long ago, Augustine of... Continue Reading
If You Think God Is Wrong, You Can Never Be Right.
If your explanation of the conquest of Canaan begins with “we cannot excuse or justify” what God has done, you are no longer doing Christian theology.
Christian theology takes it as axiomatic that God is good. He never does anything wrong. If your explanation of the conquest of Canaan begins with “we cannot excuse or justify” what God has done, you are no longer doing Christian theology. Your sources may be wrong. Your understanding of your sources may be wrong. You... Continue Reading
Responding to Craig’s Critique On The Eternal Begotteness Of The Son
William Lane Craig argues against the eternal begotteness of the Son, however, eternal generation does not produce subordinationism, rather it guards against it
Orthodox theologians were able to maintain these distinctions by stressing two points: 1) Christians should use the language of “begotten” and “generation” because it reflects the teaching of the Bible, and 2) Divine generation must be sharply distinguished as radically different from human generation. When these points are carefully articulated, it allows for distinction between... Continue Reading
How the Doctrine of Predestination Negates Egalitarianism
The system of Egalitarianism began in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve decided that they were equal with God and ate the forbidden fruit.
God is sovereign (and not equal with man), and this leaves us in a state of wonder and worship. It also gives us a tool to deal with political issues of the day. The church has failed to teach men to stand in silence and awe before a Holy God who works all things after... Continue Reading
As I Imitate Christ
Have you ever invited someone to imitate you as you imitate Christ?
The person who is diligent in imitating Christ will have faith in the Lord and repentance over sin that is evident. He will be committed to becoming more and more like Christ and will be unsatisfied with every shortcoming. Every serious Christian should find someone like that and seek to follow his or her example.... Continue Reading
Masked Worship: The “Not Yet” of God’s Kingdom
Our return to worship hasn’t turned out to be a sudden return from online worship to a full, crowded, glorious congregation standing before God.
Worship shows us both aspects of God’s kingdom, the already and the not yet. Worship at its biblical best – whatever its style – is a grand party, a celebration, a joy in which God’s people lose themselves amidst a deep focus on God and his glory. In fact, the bible’s picture of the end... Continue Reading