Burdening Ourselves to Death
We are more informed than ever, and simultaneously more stressed out and outraged than ever.
God calls us to focus on what He has placed in front of us in our personal lives, families, and the church. If we are not neglecting these, and we have time left over, we are called to care about the needs of the community. However, we should never reverse the order. As Paul told... Continue Reading
Yes, Some Things Are Black and White
Forget the 99 shades of grey – we need to again affirm truth.
Sure, we recognize that while the Bible is completely true and without error, we are not. We are fallen and finite, so we need care and diligence as we seek to rightly understand and apply God’s truth. But we are not left in endless doubt and skepticism. The Holy Spirit has been given to every believer... Continue Reading
What’s an Exile to Do? Husbands, Live a Holy Married Life
Doing the good that God requires of you in marriage will illustrate the holiness that He expects in every aspect of your life
As God’s exiles, the Apostle commands Christian husbands to live lives of moral excellence. One of a husband’s duties is to respect God’s marriage ordinance by stepping forward to take his place responsibly within it. The reason for this is that, for Peter, the household is the basic unit of an ordered Christian life, and... Continue Reading
Itinerating on the Water
All the miracles of John chapter 6 jump out at us with fresh insight grounded as they are in this Moses-Exodus motif.
Moses, imperfect as he was, wasn’t quite able to bring that first exodus to completion; the original generation died in the wilderness while he himself was disqualified from even entering the land. Not so our Savior, Jesus. As Bruce Milne so beautifully puts it, with Jesus in our presence, “the church, for all its internal... Continue Reading
Safeguard the Hope of Salvation: An Introduction to John Calvin’s Pastoral Theology Part. 2
“Let those especially who have been made preachers of the gospel see that the message of salvation is not lost or extinguished, but is accepted and protected.” - John Calvin
For Calvin, the appropriate response to hearing God’s word was to cast oneself down in repentance, and cling to the hope that the God of all mercy would “help us feel [our sins] more and more, so that we may come to true repentance and may strive to mortify the evil within us, until he... Continue Reading
The Annulment of Condemnation
Jesus cancelled the sentence of condemnation on behalf of those He represented when He stepped out of the grave.
When believers struggle to be settled about the once-for-all nature of their justification before God, they must look on the crucified and risen One by faith. Jesus was justified before God in His resurrection so that we might be justified by faith in the risen and victorious Christ. We sometimes fail to meditate deeply... Continue Reading
It Seems Right to Me
As we continue to abandon standards of what is true and what is right, we end up doing whatever seems good at the time – no matter how bad such choices may actually be.
Our way of doing things and seeing things always seems right – until we actually measure things by God and his righteous and unchanging standards. Then we quickly learn how far off we have been. But too many believers today live as if they and they alone are the arbiter of truth and error, of... Continue Reading
What Is Sweeter Than Honey? A Little Theology of Sugar
Unlike honey and sugar, you cannot have too much of the sweetness of God.”
A biblical theology of honey speaks a chastening word to both sides of today’s sugar divide. Apart from the guidance from God’s word, we are prone to gravitate to extremes: misusing God’s good gift through presumption and overconsumption, or misguided avoidance and overreaction, treating as evil, or simply toxic, what he has given as good.... Continue Reading
Project Veritas Wins Early Round In Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times
A federal judge warned that the country is in danger because “we are very close to one-party control” of the media.
While The New York Times alleged that the Project Veritas journalism was “deceptive” or “disinformation,” Wood said that better described their insertion of opinions into their news stories. “The Articles that are the subject of this action called the Video ‘deceptive,’ but the dictionary definitions of ‘disinformation’ and ‘deceptive’ provided by defendants’ counsel certainly apply... Continue Reading
Why Do Christians Pray, “Hallowed Be Thy Name”?
The hallowing of God’s name is to be our first prayer, our top priority.
Many often use God’s name as an outburst of frustration: “God almighty!” “Jesus Christ!” Jesus’ name is not even respected, let alone hallowed. To pray, “Hallowed be thy name,” is to pray that God’s name be set above every other name—by every tribe, nation, and tongue—for extraordinary praise, devotion, and delight. “…hallowed be thy... Continue Reading
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