What Happens When a Society Abandons Christianity?
Nature Abhors a Vacuum, and Islam Is Filling One in the West
The choice is not a Christian society or a secular society. The choice is increasingly becoming between a woke society and an Islamic society, both of which are oppressive. If we truly want to be free, and live lives in truth, beauty, and goodness, the only option is to return to a Christian society. That... Continue Reading
What’s the Big Deal with Worship?
In Revelation chapters 4-5, we glimpse the ultimate worship gathering, and it reminds us what gathered worship does.
What does gathered worship do? It declares that this world is a lie. More than that, it centres us around the throne of God – for God is on the throne whatever we may be facing down here. It gathers God’s people around his throne – for God is worthy of every note of praise... Continue Reading
Family Worship as Warfare
Is your home preparing your children to be dynamic, bold, and ardent worshippers of Christ? Or is it preparing them for something else?
One of the most important works you will ever do is bringing family worship into your home. Family worship will disciple your children in the faith, give them ownership that this faith belongs to them, and prepare them for the war they will be engaged with in the years ahead. Christianity’s Helm’s Deep If... Continue Reading
Welcome Requires Walls
We are not to compromise by taking the walls down, but we are to welcome everyone to come over the threshold.
We need difference—the difference between the Church and world is what we usually call holiness—and then we need to behave like Christians and radically welcome people within the bounds of our homes and churches, without having to knock down all the walls, expecting that the encounters around the table will change all of us. Sounds... Continue Reading
5 Myths about Human Reasoning
In any sound reasoning, we are imitating the original rationality that belongs to God. We are dependent on God and on his knowledge.
Human reasoning, intuition, emotions, and all the other aspects of who we are all contaminated by sin (Ephesians 4:17–19). No one of these areas of human life is absolutely trustworthy. Christ came to redeem us comprehensively. That includes not only giving us the forgiveness of our sins, but through the Holy Spirit progressively moving us... Continue Reading
The Ultimate Authority for the One-Another Ministry We Call “Counseling”
The Bible truly is sufficient to minister to the soul.
Without an infallible Bible we have no authority to counsel people regarding what they must believe and do, or how God expects us to change. However, because we possess the infallible Word of God, we also possess divinely delegated authority to counsel according to its precepts and principles. We can and must say to others, “Thus... Continue Reading
Union with Christ: An Unbreakable Fellowship
In Christ Jesus, we find all the promises and blessings of God for His people. Nowhere else.
The doctrine of union with Christ is an invitation to make our home with God in Christ Jesus. It is an unbreakable fellowship. Not because we strive to keep the faith, but because God the Father keeps His people in His forever love in the Son of God and by the power of the Holy... Continue Reading
Shall We Respect the Elders?
Reverence for our parents and other authority figures should be a reflection and evidence of our honor and reverence for God.
We are all called to honor the gray hairs, to be grateful for God’s gifts to the church, and to sit at the feet of our elders with reverence, respect, and deference, like the fathers in the faith that they are. This will also teach our children, it will teach our churches, it will teach... Continue Reading
Stop Calling Faithfulness a Sacrifice
It is not sacrifice to do what Jesus asks us to do.
We need to stop talking about faithfulness as sacrifice. It isn’t. It is for our own good that we obey the commands of Christ. It is in full knowledge that there is something better for us in being faithful. We need to stop calling obedience and faithfulness to the commands of Christ “sacrifice”. There,... Continue Reading
Four Common (and Unhelpful) Responses to the Exclusivity of Christ
The idea that Jesus is the only one way to God is offensive because it seems arrogant, bigoted, and narrow-minded.
When Christians claim Christ is the only way, we’re expressing a vital detail of our worldview. This is not intolerance, arrogance, or narrow-mindedness. And it’s more than just our opinion. We could be wrong, but only reasoned arguments could reveal that. The most offensive part of the gospel, and the most common objection to... Continue Reading
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