Be Glad for Binaries
The noblest of God’s binaries, though, is found in humanity.
To reject the sex binary is ultimately to reject the Creator-creature distinction. Despising our binary sexuality, we exalt ourselves to the position of creator. We seek to author and determine our own lives, acknowledging only the limits of our own preferences. Yet in reality we are not on any sort of spectrum with God. He... Continue Reading
Worthy of Worship
Men and women are ready to worship created beings while refusing to worship the living and true God.
We worship the one person of the Son of God, who is both God and man. We now worship the Man, Christ Jesus, who is seated on the throne of God, the only Mediator between God and man–even as we will for all of eternity. A number of years ago, Anna and I were... Continue Reading
Evangelical Gnosticism
Why are so many resistent to the idea of a physical resurrection?
We do not profess a religion that despises the body. Christ speaks of us as his body, a body that spans the globe and extends through time. To disdain our flesh is to neglect the Incarnation and our membership in this historical communal body. I teach in a great books program at an Evangelical university. Almost... Continue Reading
Adam Is Historical; Not a Myth
The issue is whether humans were specially created by God and then fell into sin, thus plunging the entire race into damnation and subjecting the cosmos to the curse imposed by a holy God on a fallen creation.
Into human cultures dominated by mythology, the Bible reveals the novel idea of history. History is the idea that the cosmos had a beginning (creation) and is going somewhere (eschatology). Mythology says that matter is eternal and everything goes in endless cycles. Can Christian theology make do with the kind of “historical Adam” that... Continue Reading
Serving from the Shadows
There is a great danger for pastors and congregants alike to turn ministry into a show in order to receive praise from men.
On Judgment Day, our popularity or public accolades will not matter one iota. Rather, what will matter is how faithfully and diligently we sought to use the gifts God has given us for His glory and the edification of His people. We have all been conditioned by the celebrity culture in which we live... Continue Reading
If God Became a Man, Can a Man Become a Woman?
The hard work of sustained analysis proves this idea bereft of merit.
Defining terms is always essential to a conversation because you don’t want to talk past each other. In this case, it’s even more critical because the tweet compares two things: the incarnation and transgender ideology. The only way the tweet works is if the two things being compared are parallel…They are not. Does Christian... Continue Reading
Critical Race Theory Doesn’t Go Far Enough
There are problems with connecting the ideology of CRT with the doctrine of the Reformed tradition.
The story of oppression cannot be told with reference to one race, one sex, one class, one nation, or one civilization. The problem of injustice goes deeper, past the identity obsessions of our age, all the way to our identity as fallen human beings. As Americans continue to debate critical race theory (CRT) and... Continue Reading
Rowan Williams and Our Sentimental Age
Sentimental mush has come to replace careful moral reasoning in the minds of so many.
When the intellectual elites of our culture allow sentiment to supplant reason, then the discourse of public life is in grave trouble. We should know this from seeing what happens when sentiment comes to dominate other branches of our culture. Art becomes kitsch. And ethics becomes a matter of responding to the latest sob story... Continue Reading
The Sudden Return of Christ
The wise virgins were prepared for the sudden return of Christ, the foolish were not.
Dear friends, are you prepared to meet the Lord of glory? Are you prepared to leave this life today and be in the presence of Christ? How can a man be reconciled to God? Repent, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be reconciled to God through Him and be saved! ... Continue Reading
‘The Heart of God’: Excerpt From ‘The Heart of the Cross’
Jesus’s last words from the cross are significant.
Yet far more important than looking at these words to learn our duties is to look at them for what they teach us about the nature and work of Christ himself, which is how we are looking at them in this book. They teach that Jesus died to save us from our sin; that is... Continue Reading
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