Too many pastors are textual acrobats, contorting their preaching to avoid Scripture’s sharper edges. Such preachers have become adept at explaining away angular texts and dodging confrontational verses. On the contrary, the preacher’s charge is clear: “Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke and exhort with great patience and... Continue Reading

Our age of relativism requires us firmly to adhere and fiercely to defend the truths of the Word of God. Our age of humanism necessitates the Church to fight tenaciously for a biblical anthropology and soteriology. Our age of low-churchism compels us to be faithful in maintaining the truths of the gospel and the purity,... Continue Reading

Eschatology is not a topic that should be reserved for theologians or scholars. It is a topic for every Christian, and, for that matter, every person. We all live in a dark world. And there is no message more relevant to those living in a dark world than a message about how that world will... Continue Reading

The struggles we sometimes experience in prayer are often part of the process by which God gradually brings us to ask for only what He has promised to give. The struggle is not our wrestling to bring Him to give us what we desire, but our wrestling with His Word until we are illuminated and... Continue Reading

If you’re in a season that seems “wasteful” because of the current pandemic, or because of where you live, or chronic illness, or crying babies, or elderly parents who need your help, or whatever other reason you can’t “get it all done,” then perhaps this is the training ground that God has readied for you.... Continue Reading

Our problem today is that God’s design in creation, reflected in the differing vocations given to men and women, is something that sinners routinely try to suppress or distort (Rom. 1:18). And sadly, they do so to their own hurt.   Last night, John Piper participated in a panel discussion about complementarianism, and today T4G... Continue Reading

Covid-19 is the great revealer when it comes to our homes. Many of us are spending more time at home than ever before, as are our children. We may be shocked to learn that we don’t really like being home, at least not when everyone else is there, too. Perhaps what we’re discovering is that... Continue Reading

Just as an immaculate barn might be a nice place to visit, a problem-free church may have some attraction to us. But it’s the barn with the messes on the floor and smell of animals that will see “abundant crops” at harvest time.   Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant... Continue Reading

The fate of the godly and the ungodly are intertwined. The godly are those who enjoy a restored image, whereas the ungodly are those who have a perverted image or an “anti-image.” The term anti-image, used throughout this essay, refers to an individual who is hostile to God and is the opposite of those who... Continue Reading

The answer Jesus gave accomplished, in one stroke, a number of crucial theological corrections. It removed unwarranted social stigma from victims of such calamities and their families by emphasizing that their guilt wasn’t necessarily worse than anyone else’s. It undercut anyone’s errant belief that their current lack of suffering amounts to God’s endorsement of their... Continue Reading