The Puritans used to say, “Let us use the world but enjoy the Lord.” Modern professing Christians often say it the other way around. Let us use the Lord but enjoy the world. And so we are forced to ask a question, three questions in fact. Where is our treasure? Where is our spiritual vision... Continue Reading

“There is no truth.”…Is that statement true? Is it true that there is no truth? You can see the problem immediately. The claim that there is no truth is self-refuting. Since it self-destructs, nothing more is needed to dispatch the challenge than to simply point out the problem.   I stumbled on an old, yellowed document in... Continue Reading

All human beings have infinite worth because they are made in the image of God. And the taking of a life—any life—is showing contempt for God and His image. Life is sacred. It is not ours to do with as we please.    O, Canada! What are you thinking… and doing? In an absolutely devastating... Continue Reading

How then do you order your life, family, and culture in submission to the throne of Christ? You don’t come to the throne by skipping past the cross….the central message of Christianity is: die that you might live. Humble yourself, that God might raise you up. The cross leads to the throne.   The central... Continue Reading

Rise up, men of God. Stop bowing to the idols of this age. Stop waiting for safer times. The time is now. The fight is here. Babylon will fall. Christ will reign.   Our culture is Babylon. Politicians demand allegiance. Schools bow to idols. Corporations threaten dissenters. And just like Babylon, the order is simple:... Continue Reading

We should have a church policy. But that isn’t what we should present upfront to those who’re cohabitating. It’s far better to let them wrestle with what Jesus requires of them and then explain that it’s out of our understanding of his requirements that we have created our church policies.   “How do you deal... Continue Reading

Dear ministers of the Word, we do not have to be modern incarnations of a Charles Spurgeon or a Martyn Lloyd-Jones. We do not know how powerful were the elocutionary skills of Ezra, but rather, it appears to me that the sense of the passage in Nehemiah was not about his amazing elocution but his... Continue Reading

Look to where the Lord has you and who the Lord has around you, make strides to get to know others more than just on the surface, ask more questions about them than talking about yourself, and find ways to be the Sam to them.   We all need some help from time-to-time. We need a champion... Continue Reading

The call to worship at the start of our services is really the call to enter into something that has already been going on. It is an invitation to join our voices to the everlasting song, and to step into—even if for a moment—the wonders of the world to come.   Near the opening of... Continue Reading

We are born spiritually blind, trying to earn our way to heaven. It is impossible for us to be saved on our own. But what is impossible with man is possible with God. With a word, God says, “Recover your sight,” and a blind sinner sees.   In Luke 9:51, the gospel narrative pivots: “When... Continue Reading