Codependent No More: Encouragement for Keeping Christ Central in Our Relationships
What the world calls codependency, God’s Word calls “idolatry,” the worship of anything or anyone other than him.
Jesus loved, served, and enjoyed people without “entrusting” himself to them in the same way that he entrusted himself to his Father. He compassionately and selflessly loved people and obeyed the command to love God alone with all his heart, soul, mind, and strength. For all of the Bible’s commands regarding marriage, friendship, parenting, and... Continue Reading
A Different Kind of Fear
In finding this fear, all other chains of fear begin to break.
It’s a different kind of fear to fear the Lord. Not the type of fear that will cause you to run away, but a fear that will cause you to run to Him and stand unmoved. There is a fear that will make you fearless. Many of God’s saints have gone through times that... Continue Reading
A Daring and Beautiful Duel over Death
The very air we breathe in our culture fills us with dread that this life is all there is.
Herbert met the challenge from Hamlet’s holding Yorick’s skull. He owned the graphic realism, embraced it, and then exposed how mere skepticism is ultimately a failure of imagination, a narrow response to the reality opened up by Christ. The riches and depth of Jesus’s answer make the realism of Hamlet seem shallow. Our Savior came... Continue Reading
Simplicity and Trinity, Friends or Foes?
An Introduction to Complementary and Misunderstood Doctrines
Simplicity brings us to avoid considering the divine persons as distinct in any absolute terms. This applies for how we distinguish and constitute them as really distinct persons, and for how we perform the rest of trinitarian doctrine declaring further Father, Son, Spirit. As we become aware in the treatise on the essence of God,... Continue Reading
A Key Ingredient for the Christian Life
Without humility, we are robbed of some of the great joys and virtues of life.
Many of life’s aspects require us to develop the virtue of humility. It’s no surprise that Jesus embodied that virtue. It’s also no surprise that we’re commanded to model after him. Do you want to experience the good life? Look no further. Just add humility to your day. It’s a key ingredient for the... Continue Reading
The Church Will Thrive…Right?
Not only is the church essential, it is eternal.
We’re not selling a gimmick, a trend, or any other man-made coping mechanism. We proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, making and maturing disciples of Jesus for the glory of God. That mission is not only essential, but it is guaranteed to succeed. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and... Continue Reading
The PCA Worth Having
This denomination is going to continue to move toward the Kingdom of God through the Great Commission.
You have been committed to the idea that the Great Commission leads us into obedience in all that Jesus taught, and that obedience will lead you out into the streets, from time to time. But you wanted to pursue that mission in a denomination that took the Word of God seriously, Confessionally, faithfully. You believed... Continue Reading
The Church Has a Twofold Mission and Three Marks, and Ending Payday Lenders is None of Them
Has the Lord Jesus Christ commissioned the visible, institutional church to speak to such issues?
The church is frequently tempted to step out of her lane, to speak to issues of concern about which it has no divine mandate. Christians are frequently tempted to try to use the visible church as a lever to try to achieve social goals but when we do we corrupt the mission and the marks... Continue Reading
Equal in Glory, Coeternal in Majesty
What can we learn from the Athanasian Creed?
While the Athanasian Creed is largely forgotten in much of the Church today it is an indispensable resource from the Church’s past to spur us to such a faithful confession of the God who has revealed himself as Trinity in unity and unity in Trinity. The Athanasian Creed or Quicunque Vult was once, alongside... Continue Reading
Unfathomable Interrelationship
As Christians, we have a view of the world and our work within it that ought to be simultaneously the most sober and the most ecstatic.
Christ’s world-saving grace deepens and details our Edenic craving for cosmic wholeness. Whenever we sense its semblance or mourn its absence, faith in Christ follows the heart of our heavenly Father in loving His world more fully. Where in this world is your soul best able to breathe? More popularly put: What is your... Continue Reading
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