Our guilt does not just lie in our lusts, our pride, our lying tongues, our exchanging of God’s glory, but in Adam’s. Our champion bent the knee without drawing enemy blood, and because of that first delicious bite, we his children still taste the curse. We have ourselves, in our own unregenerate lives, affirmed our... Continue Reading

What is transpiring is that the sola (“sole” or “only”) definition of Scripture as the authority for faith and practice is diminished and quite abrogated by adding that which is being strongly embraced by many Christians in denial of biblical principles and truths.  Scripture cannot be sole authority if cultural ethics are either added to... Continue Reading

Simon Peter, of all the Apostles, should have understood the truth of the reconciliation of Jews and gentiles in Christ because he was the one to whom God had given the vision of the sheet with the clean and unclean animals (Acts 10:9–16; 11:4–17). However, when Peter purposefully separated himself and refused to eat with... Continue Reading

If our corporate worship is going to properly form our relationship with God, then we must be sure that the elements of our worship come from the Word of God. And God has given us the elements of worship that he has designed to best build our relationship with him. Paul commands Timothy, in the... Continue Reading

David complained about his context but remembered God’s goodness. In Psalm 142, he is weak and exhausted and isolated. The walls of the cave feel like they are closing in on him as he voices his complaint to the Lord. Yet at the end of the Psalm he affirms that God is his shelter and... Continue Reading

The heart of a brother, the heart of father, the heart of a friend goes out to those who are afflicted, those who are pitiable, those who have no strength of their own. In this way their weakness is their strength, for it draws the assistance of others. Their weakness is the very quality that... Continue Reading

In a 1979 article, Alasdair MacIntyre pointed out how social science methodology had become a fundamental tool of power in managerial bureaucracy. Forty years later, it is no longer merely managerial bureaucracy over which it holds sway. The cultural disenfranchising of anyone who wishes to question transgenderism’s assumptions indicates that the same thing is now... Continue Reading

When we look around and see men who have forgotten God, what we are looking at is ourselves before God graciously saved us. When we look around and see men who have forgotten God, our response must not be to boast: “God, I thank you that I am not like other men,” men who have... Continue Reading

John tells us why he wrote this epistle, so we can understand how the phrase “perfect love casts out fear” fits with his purpose. “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life”(1 John 5:13).   Perhaps you’ve heard... Continue Reading

When was the last time you sat down and just counted your blessings and gave thanks to God? How vital this is for us! If we are going to keep in a right orientation with God and this world, then we need to be abounding with thanksgiving to offset the trials and tribulations of this... Continue Reading