The Most Rev. Laurent Mbanda, who serves as chairman of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) Primates Council, issued a scathing statement last August describing Vann’s election as “an act of apostasy” and “another painful nail in the coffin of Anglican orthodoxy” that necessitates schism.   The first openly lesbian archbishop in Christian history recently said... Continue Reading

One of the quiet dangers of constant commentary is that it trains us to live in reaction mode. We stop asking, Is this true? and start asking, How do I feel about this? We stop weighing ideas and start sorting tribes. Over time, emotional reflex replaces moral reasoning. And once that happens, even correct conclusions are reached for... Continue Reading

Oh to be more like what Christ was when here below! It is a wilderness, and a wilderness will God make us to know it. He says, “Arise and depart; this is not your rest, it is polluted.” God will not put us off with the worldling’s trash. He has higher enjoyments for us.  ... Continue Reading

What feels heavy to us passes quickly under His gaze. This is not meant to belittle our sorrow. It is meant to remind us that history does not spiral out of control when a life ends. God remains at the center, unhurried, aware, ruling.   A New Year’s Devotion The first sound is dirt. It... Continue Reading

New Agers speak of “Christ consciousness,” “divine energy,” or “the source,” while denying the exclusivity of Christ and the authority of Scripture. These systems refuse to bow to God as He has revealed Himself. Syncretism borrows and redefines biblical terms. This makes deception easier to accept, because it sounds spiritual while subtly replacing God’s truth... Continue Reading

God will receive glory either through our soft hearts or our hard hearts. Again and again in the Exodus narrative, God reminds Israel and Egypt that he is sovereign over the events and even Pharaoh’s heart, and it is all for his glory. Before the climactic events where God leads Israel through the Red Sea... Continue Reading

It is difficult for Protestants to call for something to be heresy across denominational lines without an agreed upon basis or set of pronouncements. This is especially when “heretic” now has secular usage. In this situation, it is not merely several distinct Presbyterian and Reformed denominations which may have similar standards regarding race, but who... Continue Reading

At Christ’s birth, a glorious reversal of the Fall began to take place. Before God became man in the historical person of Jesus Christ, the material world of flesh was stained by sin and corruption. In the Incarnation, the material world was elevated once again to its rightful place as that which “was very good”... Continue Reading

As one who looks to Christ as your only way of acceptance with God, He is always with you (Matthew 28:18,20b).   I don’t know how things are with you today, but as I write this, I have a special need to remember this truth. If you are familiar with the Bible, you may know... Continue Reading

What is it about children that Jesus wants us to have? I’ve often heard this passage taught as if Jesus wants us to imitate the humility and trust of children. In this interpretation, children are presented as inherently virtuous, and we need to cultivate the same kind of virtue. However, in context, I don’t think... Continue Reading