We will see how God kept us, how dreadfully close we came to making shipwreck of our faith, but how, without fail, God intervened by his Word and Spirit and called us to faith and repentance again.   I imagine that in heaven there will be a sort of cosmic canvas or divine tapestry that... Continue Reading

Willful disobedience is prime time for pointing children to Christ. They need to experience a consequence to understand that sin is a real problem with a real penalty. If they repent and believe in Jesus, God will forgive them because Jesus bore their sins in His body. He offers them Christ’s righteousness in exchange for... Continue Reading

The revelation of the glory of God, reflecting off the face of Moses, was an accompanying sign of the divine source of the message that God gave him on the mountain. The emanating glory from the face of the Lord Jesus Christ was not a reflected glory. Jesus is the very revelation of the glory... Continue Reading

Would I allow a boyfriend and girlfriend to stay the night in a bedroom in my home? No, because I don’t want to condone the sexual sin of fornication. I only allow married couples to stay the night together in my home. I can apply the same logic to the situation with two homosexual men. ... Continue Reading

When the Lord Jesus came to fulfill all that was prefigured in the events surrounding the exodus from Egypt, similar signs and wonders were present. On the day of Pentecost, the Apostle Peter reminded his listeners that Jesus of Nazareth was “a man attested . . . by God with mighty works and wonders and... Continue Reading

Prayerlessness is, at its core, unbelief. When Jesus comes again, will he find us praying and trusting (for the two are interconnected)? Or will he find us living and acting and planning and complaining and manipulating our own strategies as if there were no God at all?   Mark 11 Therefore I tell you, whatever... Continue Reading

The simple fact is, God is not obligated to love anyone the way they insist. God has ordered His own loves in keeping with His prerogative. God is not accountable to man and has stated that His decision to express mercy and show compassion is determined only by His own good pleasure (cf. Rom. 9;... Continue Reading

When I walked into the church, I was so low I wondered if I would ever be able to look another human directly in the eye again. However, as the word of God washed over me, I was reminded I was not alone in my condition. It is not as if I deserve hell and... Continue Reading

If we are intrinsically fallen and structurally flawed from the moment of our creation, then what hope is there that we will be any different in the future? There would be none. But Scripture denies this possibility because the problem of sin is moral, and not ontological, which means that we can become what we... Continue Reading

It is unclear why Bishop Budde believes that appealing to Jesus carries any weight when she so openly rejects the authority of Scripture in both her doctrinal positions and her teachings on sexuality. Like Anne Hutchinson before her, she trusts her own intuitions as divinely guided, granting herself the authority to pick and choose which... Continue Reading