Nevertheless, in our current context, I do not believe civil disobedience is warranted. I do so for a number of reasons. But at the forefront is that Christians have a duty laid out in scripture to obey the civil magistrate, even when we disagree with them, and even when it hurts us.   The Covid-19... Continue Reading

After the vaccine people will still die, people will still be lost in sin, people will still struggle against the flesh, and will still need spiritual transformation. The darkness of the pandemic is not the real darkness. The real darkness is the spiritual darkness that all people experience, the lostness and the sin, the separation... Continue Reading

Consider what the Bible says on this matter. “The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied” (Pr.13:4). “Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth” (Pr.10:4). “If a man is lazy, his rafters sag; if his hands are idle, the house leaks” (Eccl.10:18). “The LORD... Continue Reading

God has created and designed us and has entrusted the Scriptures to us, the owner’s manual for life, for our benefit. With the rejection of His truth, we receive the just result of our pride—a false, empty, and dangerous perspective, and disorder and lawlessness. What is needed is a spiritual revival, to restore the Lord... Continue Reading

Christians must present biblical morality in a way that reveals the beauty of the biblical view of the human person so that people actually want it to be true. And they must back up their words with actions that treat people with genuine dignity and worth.   The following section of Nancy Pearcey’s Love Thy Body is very... Continue Reading

Non-Christians often don’t ask religious questions because down deep inside they have a sneaking suspicion of what the answers might be, and they don’t like them. But Christians also are afraid of questions for the same reason, so they get into trouble.   Sometimes it is less important to have the right answers than to... Continue Reading

We each sin as a human connected to other humans. We sin, as often as we sin, as fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, neighbors, coworkers, citizens, and, if Christians, members of the body of Christ.   J.C. Ryle is right when he observes that sin never announces itself to us with its full intentions. It never... Continue Reading

Is it your desire to become more like Jesus (Romans 8:29)? Do you want to be a holier Christian? Then you must train! You must put in the work to spiritually exercise your faith–in short, you must “train for godliness.”   Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; for... Continue Reading

The hill of Jonah promises life, but will inevitably bleed you dry. Yet the hill of Christ, which promises your death, actually becomes a source of life.   “Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to... Continue Reading

The early church fathers considered eternal generation a first principle, essential to the Trinity, even indispensable for a biblical view of salvation history.   Each advent season, my family enjoys singing classic Christmas hymns. One Christmas, however, our family made a disturbing discovery. As we were singing, O Come, All Ye Faithful, my wife started... Continue Reading