At the fall, Genesis 3, all three aspects of death came with it. Before the fall, Adam was not subject to any form of death, but through his sin, death became a grim reality for the entire human race. The death Paul refers to in Romans 6:23 are spiritual death as well as eternal death,... Continue Reading

Satan tries to convince us that a life of obedience to God is a heavy burden that is impossible to bear. Satan tempts us with alternate forms of pleasure that are allegedly quicker and easier and better. We can get rich quicker by cheating someone. We can get secret sexual thrills without any personal commitment... Continue Reading

Consider Jesus. He is indeed the Father’s special Son. If anyone could plead special privilege, it would be the divine Son. And yet. And yet! He did not cling to his equality with God as a self-serving privilege or ask to be excused from the mission. He did not request a pass from poverty, suffering,... Continue Reading

The Gospel Matters because without it no one is saved…neither Thomas Auld nor Frederick Douglass because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.[8]  All need the sin forgiving God. But what does this mean for today?  It means, the Gospel Matters.  What is more, if the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of... Continue Reading

Must we not weep for the veil Satan has drawn over so many people’s eyes so they cannot see the spiritual warfare? What hope have we? We have the hope God gives us. God gives us hope that silenced voices are only silent on earth. They are not silent to God.     The America... Continue Reading

Conditioned as we are by our culture, the desire for individualism is strong. We do not want to be responsible for anyone but ourselves, particularly not when it comes to sin. Yet, God clearly deals with people as nations in the Old Testament, as we see from the conquest of Canaan, the judgment of Edom... Continue Reading

We don’t automatically choose faithfulness to God in the face of insurmountable temptation simply because we are Christians. I suspect making the difficult choice is possible after a lifelong habit of yielding to the Spirit in smaller decisions. Then, when more challenging decisions come our way, we are prepared.   Would you say you are... Continue Reading

A man is revealed by the way he responds when the receipts are handed to him. These Christian leaders should be ashamed. They should be modeling repentance to us. Instead, they put the shame on the victims. Well, I’m not going to stay a victim.   Steven Wedgeworth has posted an article claiming he has... Continue Reading

We live in a culture that seems to believe that tweets and hashtags will revolutionize society. I’m just old fashioned enough to believe that it may come a little differently. In fact, it in an age of social unrest and societal upheaval, the most revolutionary thing we can do might be to tend our own... Continue Reading

There is a difference between saying “Calvinist theology promotes evangelism” and “Calvinists actually evangelize.” There is a difference between saying “Calvinists have historically evangelized” and “Calvinists do evangelize right now.” After all, isn’t it possible that we may fail to live up to our theology?   If you read enough blogs over a long enough... Continue Reading