Jordan Peterson, Jung, and Hope for the Faint-Hearted
Christians, enamored of modern culture, run the risk of ignoring its underlying anti-Christian ideology.
Jordan Peterson seems to be a genuine seeker after truth, with an insatiable appetite to put the world together in a coherent worldview. Much of what he says is very “Christian friendly,” but his coherence breaks down when he finds inspiration in Carl Jung, one of the most powerful creators of today’s post-Christian, neo-pagan culture. ... Continue Reading
Female Pastors, LGBTQ, and the Future of the SBC
It might have taken the feminist dissidents 30+ years, but they may at last be on the brink of getting their way in the SBC. And female pastors may be only their first win. In May of 2022, Mike Law, pastor of Arlington Baptist Church in Virginia, sent an email to the executive committee... Continue Reading
Postmillennialism: Exposition and Critique
It is wise to view Postmillennialism as a seriously flawed eschatology.
Postmillennialism misconstrues the primary purpose of God for the Era of Gospel Proclamation, which is not to Christianize the Domain of Darkness, but rather to rescue a chosen people out of it, and to transfer them into the Kingdom of his beloved Son…[and] distorts the believer’s Blessed Hope, focusing it upon an illusory stage of... Continue Reading
Parents And the Apostasy of Covenant Children
Covenant children are holy in Christ and members of his church, they are rightful recipients of the sign and seal of engrafting into Christ.
Among what these principles teach is that when a parent loves his family first and foremost, he neither loves God nor his family aright. One loves his children above God by pursuing their happiness rather than their Godliness, their respectability rather than their need for righteousness in Christ. Even to seek equally both happiness and... Continue Reading
Forgiving Each Other with God’s Immanence and Transcendence: A Corporate Call for Doctrine (Part Two)
Working out the ramifications of God’s immanence, transcendence and sovereignty over three elements in play in every conflict and in every attempt to forgive: the individual; the situation; the law.
Forgiveness is an act of worship in which a believer, acting as an authorized imperial agent, formally invokes the profound, transcendent goodness and immanence of God, beginning with His perfect justice—either on the cross for the elect, or in the future for those passed by. Forgiveness is practiced without waiting for any particular emotional state... Continue Reading
Christians, What About Our Social Media Language?
God’s standard of holiness is the same for both oral and written language.
Coarse and crude language must have been in vogue in the Apostle Paul’s day for him to address Christians in two different locations not to resort to such language or speech, as was common to the pagans. We may never allow such words to depart from our lips, but let’s not let such words depart... Continue Reading
3 Occasions to Take Every Thought Captive
Sin starts small, but it never stays that way.
How often we see the state of someone else’s life – their home, their car, their kids’ behavior – and we become discontent with our own station. That discontentment has an allure to it – it’s easy to let it settle in and take root in our hearts. But our discontentment is not merely a... Continue Reading
The Image of God and the Difference It Makes
This is a crucial and indispensable biblical teaching.
The truth is, we were created to worship. We were born to worship. We are all religious beings because we all seek to worship. Writes Tripp: “In this way every human being is religious, because we all are made in God’s image and wired with Godward capacities, and we will either give ourselves in worship... Continue Reading
Sin’s Madhouse
We live in a world which is filled with madness, chaos, and confusion because it is insanely attempting to go back to darkness.
The world tempts you with insane words about “trying harder”, “doing better”, “trusting yourself”. Confession, however, is the act of coming into the Light of the sanity of Christ’s kingdom of peace. All sin is insanity, but confession is walking in the truth, walking in reality, walking in the Kingdom of Christ. The Gospel speaks... Continue Reading
Handel’s “Messiah”, A Prophetic Masterwork – Part 6: The Prophesied Sacrificial Lamb
The Crucifixion
You would think that a musical representation of the Crucifixion would use the Gospel accounts as the primary source. But Charles Jennens did not use even a single verse from those accounts. Instead, the bulk of his presentation of the event comes from Isaiah and Psalms. We come now in our study of the... Continue Reading
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