Just as going from wood heating to paying for electric on the first day of the week enables a better personal and societal keeping of the Lord’s Day, due to a dedicated minority more efficiently providing a greater, necessary benefit for all, so the use of profitable, suitable restaurants on the Lord’s Day may contribute... Continue Reading

Enoch’s words are not recorded in the Old Testament, which also doesn’t describe him as a prophet. But Jude cites Enoch and refers to his words as a prophecy (Jude 14–15).   Enoch was the son of patriarch Jared (Genesis 5:18) and his name (ḥănôḵ) means ‘dedicated’. Although not much space in the Bible is... Continue Reading

The sins of pornography, adultery, homosexuality, slandering, and gossiping can all be cleansed. There are certainly repentance and reconciliation issues between you and the people you have hurt. Abuse and violence have legal consequences. But you can go to Jesus if, like the leper, you humbly bow and repent.   Think of the most socially... Continue Reading

Biblically speaking, there are two and only two legitimate sexual identities: male and female. Scripture identifies sinful desires and sinful behaviors, calls them sin, and calls sinners to repentance, forgiveness, and adoption into God’s family as sons and daughters of God. That is the identity on offer. The gospel doesn’t baptize your disordered desires and... Continue Reading

Progressive Christianity in final analysis forms and then ascends a mountain of its own making, at the summit transfiguring the community’s internal inclinations into external dogma. Such idol-making is the only recourse for Progressive Christianity, dwelling in the shadow of nihilism, rubbing modernism and postmodernism together in bifurcated hopeful-despair for a flame to arise.  ... Continue Reading

God cares for the temporary things in this world. He dresses things with great beauty even though they are passing. He gives beauty to what lasts only a little while. If that is true of grass, then what does it say of men and women made in his image, what does it say of those... Continue Reading

Public performance of vulnerability to sin is not part of the minister’s calling. The congregants, if well-catechized, all know he is a sinner. They need no more information than that. The temptation to say more is a function of our therapeutic society and thus part of the larger cultural problem, not a solution.    Another... Continue Reading

The New Testament presents early Christians as having a keen focus on sound teaching that builds us up into the most holy Faith. It will be obvious that the New Testament documents often do not state doctrine like a modern textbook, but its authors collectively contribute to something that we can recognize as the Faith,... Continue Reading

He is the one who is and who was and who is to come. He is in full possession of the Spirit’s power, shining radiantly in the fullness of glory. Nothing is hidden from this enthroned Son of Man whose eyes are like flaming fire. He has ascended to the Right hand of the Father,... Continue Reading

Elijah was a man “with a nature like ours” (James 5:17) and is held up for us as an example of fervent and earnest prayer (the Greek reads, “He prayed with prayer”) that accomplishes much. Elijah didn’t merely pray reactively to the circumstances happening around him; he sought God’s face proactively. He knew that he... Continue Reading