Secularism Be Damned
Recovering a sense of biblical reality.
In a culture that is currently engaged in a futile effort to push God to the periphery of public consciousness, it’s important for Christians to recover a sense of biblical reality. Despite what our unbelieving world would tell us, neutrality is a myth. Every human action — from making love to drawing up the building... Continue Reading
Karl Marx Has Won the Culture, But He Will Not Win the War
The water in which we swim is a toxic brew of Marxism, postmodern philosophy, and expressive individualism. It is an alternative religion, a false gospel.
God’s Christ has conquered, and he will return to consummate his inaugurated kingdom. While we wait, the nations are raging, trying to burst his bonds and cast away his cords. It is ours to understand and embrace the interpretive perspective of the biblical authors, to see the patterns in the narrative and then to align... Continue Reading
The Blood that Brings Peace
The message of the cross gives us a deep foundation and a vital framework for making sense of issues of conflict in our world as well as in our lives.
The gospel of Jesus’ death and resurrection teaches us that we’re greater sinners than we can ever imagine. It also teaches us that our salvation is greater than we can ever imagine. Therefore, it teaches us how to relate to others. It enables us to forgive even those we see as our worst enemies; after... Continue Reading
Community Standards and Complete Sanctification
There is certain conduct that is to flow from those converted by the power of God. God doesn’t save us to leave us alone. He saves us to sanctify us.
Out of His lovingkindness, God chose the believers in Thessalonica to be His children, and His grace would undergird their entire Christian lives. They had peace with Him in Christ Jesus. The Lord’s blessing was upon them. He was keeping them steadfast in the faith. His face and grace shone upon them. The Lord’s name... Continue Reading
What is the Doctrine of Adoption?
Our predestination, effectual calling, justification, and glorification are centered around adoption.
We’re born as sinners, which means that we’ve been separated from God and have become spiritual orphans without God as our Father. But the Father sent His own Son to save us by His life, death, and resurrection, so that we could be brought into His family forever. When we believe in Jesus the Son,... Continue Reading
Every. Single. Word.
When God speaks, it is absolutely perfect.
Who is like our God who speaks with perfect clarity? Who speaks with such wisdom and truth and faithfulness. Who can thunder with a voice like His in total authority? Only our God has words like this. And every single word of God is true. As I was listening to the radio the other... Continue Reading
One of the Most Remarkable Features of Early Christian Manuscripts
When students see a NT manuscript up close for the first time, they notice something rather peculiar and unexpected.
The nomina sacra are designed to show reverence and devotion to the name(s) of God…they were a way for the scribe (and, later, for the reader) to set apart the divine name. Thus, as strange as it might sound, they were a form of worship. One of my favorite electives I teach here at RTS... Continue Reading
Letters to Stagnant Christians #2: Passive Rebellion
Simply put, your approach to the Christian life is filled with passive rebellion to God’s authority.
Let me tell you what has brought radical awakening to many a passive rebel. Begin treating God’s church as if it really were an extension of God’s authority….you cannot say that a church’s expectations are biblical and reasonable, join it, and then refuse to meet those expectations. That’s just passive rebellion, and it quenches the Holy... Continue Reading
Don’t Always Avoid Pain
For the believer, pain works as a tool in the hands to prepare us for his ministry in the body of Christ.
There is a purpose in painful situations. It is not a waste of emotions and feelings. God is working in our painful experiences. If we subscribe to the notions of false preachers who purport that saints cannot and should not go through tough times, we shall rob ourselves of the opportunity to know God in... Continue Reading
The Ancient Paths, John Gill’s Four P’s of Masculinity
Masculinity does not need to be reimagined, but restored.
John Gill’s biblical vision and example of marital masculinity stands as a needed corrective to the disorderly egalitarian, destructively passive, and disastrously macho versions of masculinity that our confused culture has put forth in recent decades. A short time before his death, eighteenth-century London Baptist pastor John Gill (1697–1771) put the finishing touches on... Continue Reading
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