Do you want to be made well? Not improved, not managed, not slightly better, but made well. Those are not the same thing. Many men want relief, but far fewer want real change, because change requires letting go of what they have been trusting. It requires stepping out of the cycle and admitting that what... Continue Reading

Allegedly, everyone will be with God! In the end, love wins (with a hat tip to Rob Bell). In his deconstructed “Christianity,” Recker reads the Bible out of its historical-grammatical context and depends heavily on liberal theologians and those who hold to non-Christian worldviews.    The phrase, “In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all... Continue Reading

Because Christ is one unified Person, you cannot separate His humanity from His deity. You cannot worship His human body without worshipping God the Son, and you cannot depict His human body without attempting to depict God the Son. Therefore, any picture of Jesus is either an idol (an attempt to depict the divine) or... Continue Reading

. . . Critical theory can be seen as having its own understanding of creation and reality, its own understanding of sin and the human dilemma, and its own understanding of redemption, history, and eschatology. This is not to say that critical theory is somehow covertly Christian. Rather, it is to suggest that critical theory... Continue Reading

We are spiritually raised now, and we shall be physically raised at Christ’s return. One way we can see the inauguration of this life is through Paul’s words in Philippians 2:14–15: “Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked... Continue Reading

We may recognize saints in churches that have lady pastors. We may recognize real pastors in churches that have lady pastors. But we may not recognize the ordination of those lady pastors. We may recognize the ordination of the colleagues of those lady pastors. But it introduces disunity into the church to sit under the... Continue Reading

To distinguish law and gospel is not to oppose them as enemies. The antinomian error is as dangerous as the legalist error, and Reformed theology explicitly rejects both.   If the social media posts, YouTube clips, and Facebook groups of prominent Evangelical and so-called “Reformed” pastors serve as any barometer of theological health, a pastoral... Continue Reading

The Father is not the Son. The Son is not the Spirit. The Spirit is not the Father. And yet each is fully and truly God. Each person possesses the fullness of deity. Each thinks, speaks, and acts. Each is involved in creation and redemption. This is not a division of God into parts. It... Continue Reading

In that chapter, Paul uses the image of a seed becoming a plant. A wheat kernel begins small, buried in the ground, but it rises into something that feeds life and produces many more seeds. It is the same in kind, yet far more glorious in form. So it will be with us. What is... Continue Reading

God is the one who created grace because he knew we would need it. It is his to give, not ours to discover within. What you will discover when you receive grace from God and not dispense it to yourself, is that God is far more generous and thorough with the grace he gives than... Continue Reading