The Spirit does not belong to one corner of the church. He is for all of us. Study the doctrine, yes, but don’t stop there. Seek his power. Pray with expectation. Long for revival. Refuse to let charismatic extremes become the reason you hold back from pursuing the Spirit’s fullness in your life and ministry.... Continue Reading

Every thought must now be taken captive to Christ. Every discipline must bow before Him. Every classroom, every lesson plan, every educational philosophy, every scientific inquiry, every artistic endeavor, and every family conversation must be surrendered beneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ.   Modern civilization has confused information with wisdom. Our age can split the... Continue Reading

When crisis hits, we often doubt everything. Sometimes we desperately try to find a Bible verse to speak to our precise situation—and usually can’t. But that is not the right way of things. We need to know God before tragedy comes.   After moving 4,295 kilometres, I arrived at my new city. On the same... Continue Reading

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