Critical Race Theory’s Jewish Problem
Critical Race Theory is poorly equipped to resolve this question: in the final analysis, are (white) Jews oppressed or oppressors?
Adherents to Critical Race Theory, for all their claims upon sophistication in analyzing group standing in society and its subtle meanings in terms of power, do not possess the conceptual resources needed to deal with historically oppressed white people. Critical Race Theory has a Jewish problem, and, finally, people are beginning to notice. “Stop... Continue Reading
If You Are in Trouble, God is Deliverance
He loves us, and preserves us.
God is our help, and what a ground for comfort this is! Therefore, I beseech you do not be discouraged. Mourn we may like doves, but not like beast in our affliction. A Christian must look at the trouble with one eye, and to God with the other. See God to be your salvation. Let... Continue Reading
A Biblical Example of Self-Righteousness
Only true Christians can be genuinely humble.
Those who are truly self-righteous are spiritually blind yet they do not perceive that this is so. Their blindness is deep and humility is something to which they give lip service. These people do not have a true self-knowledge nor do they have a correct knowledge of God. Because you say, “I am rich,... Continue Reading
Death and Funerals
Christian funerals must display death in its proper context and then explain its character rightly.
Funerals are not celebrations of life. Birthdays celebrate life. Graduations celebrate life. Weddings celebrate life. Baby showers celebrate life. No celebration, however, draws us to a funeral. We gather because death summons us. We must never forget that death is an interloper, an intruder, an enemy, and a divine judgment upon human sin. To... Continue Reading
Christ the God-Man: Better Than the Angels (Heb 1:4-14)
We understand Christ’s priesthood better when we receive and rest upon Him as the Son who is greater than the angels.
According to Heb 1:4-14, the esteem we are to have for the Son, particularly in contrast to the angels, will come as we appreciate His role in the history of creation and His role in the history of redemption. Our esteem for Christ becomes more and more reverent as we receive and rest upon... Continue Reading
Your Salvation Doesn’t Depend on Your Feelings
For weak believers, and second, for feeble workers, our object shall be the strengthening of the hands that hang down and the confirming of the feeble knees.
He that lives by feeling will be happy today and unhappy tomorrow; and if our salvation depended upon our feelings, we should be lost one day and saved another, for they are as fickle as the weather, and go up and down like a barometer. We live by faith, and if that faith be weak,... Continue Reading
Georgi Vins and the Christian Resistance to Soviet Religious Persecution
Vins believed that abiding by the government’s impositions forced the churches to disobey God’s command to bring the gospel to others.
The need for the gospel is greater than ever in the former Soviet Union. Although Vladimir Putin has verbally promoted the Orthodox Church, most people are still nominal Christians and seventy years of anti-religious propaganda are hard to erase. On April 26, 1979, 50-year-old Georgi Petrovich Vins was woken up in his cell in... Continue Reading
Grace Is Not a Thing
Why Spiritual Renewal Begins with a Him
If we could imagine grace as less like a spiritual substance and more like a glorious Person, our own spiritual reformation may not be far behind. Few words are more precious in the Christian’s vocabulary than the word grace. And yet few words are more misunderstood and misapplied, even by those who treasure the... Continue Reading
A False Sense of Assurance
We have to study the Scriptures diligently and prayerfully, so that we can learn to distinguish between true assurance and false assurance.
The first and basic reason why people arrive at a false sense of assurance is that they have a false understanding of salvation. They think that they are saved by their good works. Other people believe that they are saved automatically through the sacraments of the church. In this view, the classic Roman Catholic view,... Continue Reading
We Have the Truth and We Must Use It
Truth really is our primary weapon.
Being people of truth, proclaiming the truth, and practicing the truth. That is our offensive weaponry which we need to fully utilize. In these very dark days this is all the more important to understand and to implement. Let me begin by mentioning a dream I had last night. It seems I and a... Continue Reading
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