Those Who Grieve Need to Speak.
Lamentations gives us a picture of what it means for grieving people to speak and for others to listen.
There are two sides to weeping with those who weep. First, there must be brothers and sisters in Christ who are ready to listen. And second, the one who grieves must be ready to allow some brothers or sisters into their sorrow. It is hard to talk about loss. And it can be hard... Continue Reading
Surprises of Old Testament Use of Old Testament: Part 2
What culminates in the gospel begins in Torah.
If the New Testament authors interpret their Bible the way the prophets and psalmists interpret scripture, it is natural to wonder if that is where it started. Studying the Old Testament use of scripture shows that the prophets and psalmists did not invent their brand of biblical interpretation. It starts with Torah. Old Testament... Continue Reading
Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
It is quite amazing to look back today and realize how instrumental Solzhenitsyn was in the downfall of the Soviet Union.
We live in a generation that cares little for the past, which is why it is almost certainly doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. One can only imagine what the tens of millions who died horrific deaths as a result of Marxist ideology would say if they could see another generation of young... Continue Reading
The Left vs. The Right: Individualism and Wearing Masks
Seeking the well-being of others.
When we ask what we can do for our country, the most basic response is that of honoring the life and health of those around us. I pray that I never act in such a way that I cause another to face life-threatening consequences. Likewise, I pray that I never fail to act in such... Continue Reading
Our Business is People
We are called to make disciples, but sometimes making disciples is not our aim.
It is hard to see who God changes through you. Sometimes you see people light up after a conversation, other times it feels like you are ploughing a freshly salted field. And the temptation in those moments is to change the goalposts, to move from investing in people to counting the books you read, the... Continue Reading
Transgender Activists Tell Our Daughters They’re Not Acceptable the Way They Are
Abigail Shrier’s new book, "Irreversible Damage: the Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters," adroitly addresses a controversial topic without shirking from the truth.
In Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier has done for us the preponderance of work necessary to demonstrate exactly who are the enemies of all who value healthy children, healthy families, and a healthy society, and what tactics they employ. The gatekeepers we trusted to safeguard our children have not only failed, they have turned their teeth... Continue Reading
About Those Unclean Animals
What are we to gain from reflecting on this list of animals?
As we come to the list of clean and unclean animals found in Deuteronomy 14:3-20, if we do not remember the context of Genesis 1-3 we will read this and be confused. We will toss this out as some meaningless ceremonial law, or be more concerned about our diet than the true message of the passage.... Continue Reading
Evangelicals And Catholics Together: A Post-Mortem
Yes, we said, we have our differences (e.g., on the church and sacraments) but these evangelicals, we said, are our friends.
This series of events has puzzled some Reformed Christians. After all, it had seemed to many Reformed folk over the last 50 years that the evangelicals were our friends. We had an arrangement: the Calvinists wrote the books and the enthusiastic evangelicals did the legwork. In that period we had made common cause with the... Continue Reading
Resurrection: Union with Christ
Any benefit a believer has, he has because of union with Christ.
Insofar as someone has Christ, he therefore has everything involved with the person of Christ – his life, his sanctification, his death, resurrection, and glorification. Hence Marshall’s insistence that when someone believes in(to) Christ, it is there that the process of glorification has begun to take place. Puritan pastor Walter Marshall concludes his magisterial... Continue Reading
The Seventh-day Sabbath
“The Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”
The New Testament upholds the Ten Commandments, including the seventh-day Sabbath, as God’s will for His people. References and allusions to the Ten Commandments abound in Jesus’ ministry and in the rest of the New Testament. It was Jesus’ and the apostles’ “custom” to observe the Sabbath in a manner that would be expected of... Continue Reading