What Do Angry Christians Sing?
But how do we express our outrage in a God-honouring way?
When we are filled with righteous indignation at the injustices perpetrated in a fallen world, what praise songs are sufficient? When a gunman has just sprayed a class of seven-year-olds with bullets; when a jihadist has just blown himself up in a crowded market; when unborn children are ripped apart in their mothers’ wombs for... Continue Reading
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
Let unbelievers see the Light in this darkness.
God is not wringing His hands right now crying, “What am I going to do?” He is sovereign and He knows what He is doing. We don’t have to know the reasons for it. We simply have to know that he is good and trust Him. In short, we need to know the biblical doctrine... Continue Reading
We Wanted to Mourn
For what was almost a sacred moment, tentative hands reached out, until agendas helped curl those hands into fists.
The death of George Floyd deserved a nation’s lament, as well as a united conviction to fight for justice. The great injustice of his death now associated with rampant destruction serves only to compound the tragedy. As Americans put collective hands to our mouths while watching the death of George Floyd, hot tears filled... Continue Reading
The Most Frightening Text in the Bible…and the Answer
Here is a text that will make you take a second look at your life.
It never, until that very moment, entered their minds that they might be unknown to Jesus. They had lived—possibly for years, or even decades—under the delusion that they were safe. Secure. True servants of Jesus. During a youth weekend retreat when I was in the 7th grade, some friends and I were attempting to... Continue Reading
Why Study the Book of Ecclesiastes?
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
The book of Ecclesiastes is unique and provocative as it states powerfully and repeatedly that everything is meaningless (“vanity”) without a proper focus on God. The book reveals the necessity of fearing God in a fallen and frequently confusing and frustrating world. Examining Life Socrates is known for his famous quip that the unexamined... Continue Reading
A Very Grave Person
God teaches those He saves the truth and prepares them to walk the narrow path before actually sending them to do so.
The first time I read The Pilgrim’s Progress, I was amazed how well Bunyan addressed this issue and how succinctly it explains many of the issues we are witnessing in our own time. Why is there such corruption and apostasy in the visible church in our time? There are multitudes of those “that pretend to lead... Continue Reading
5 Principles of Biblical Restitution
As conversations over racial reconciliation escalate within the church, the notion of reparations has come to the fore, and many are inquiring as to what extent it may overlap with the biblical concept of restitution.
What is often missed in discussions of biblical law is that although the judicial code played a vital role in the civil polity of the Israelite nation, the law was given for reasons deeper and more relevant to redemptive history than the mere establishment of a theocratic state. The law in its moral, judicial, and... Continue Reading
The Significance of the Sinlessness of Jesus
Our Lord’s obedience stands in the place of His people’s sin.
Christ’s sinless life is set against the background of the scriptural testimony to the sinfulness of man. Job declared that man is “abominable and corrupt,” one who “drinks injustice like water” (Job 15:16). Solomon acknowledged, “there is no one who does not sin” (1 Kings 8:46). The apostle John warned, “If we say we have... Continue Reading
My Own Personal Jesus
It has been rightly said that the human heart is an idol-factory, and one of the most popular idols we create in our day and age is the false Jesus.
If Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation for a lost and dying world, what happens if we proclaim a Jesus who is merely a figment of our own imagination rather than the Jesus Christ revealed in the Holy Scriptures? Answer. We proclaim a false Christ which amounts to a false Gospel, and a... Continue Reading
Six Reasons the Church in America is Becoming Increasingly Impotent
Every Christian, regardless of education, occupation, or socio-economic station, is a theologian—a student of God’s Word.
The reasons why evangelicalism in America is so powerless, in my estimation, number exponentially more than six. In fact, it could easily be six-thousand—or six-million (or more). Nevertheless, given the character-count constraints of Twitter®, I was obliged to be as concise as possible in sharing my opinions—and they are only opinions. “We can never worship God... Continue Reading