All of these blessings that God promises are outward expressions of God’s favor upon them. Indeed, that is the core idea behind being blessed, living in the presence of the God who is goodness and life. The Greek word for blessed, μακαριος, doesn’t just mean temporary happiness or good feelings. It means the deep, abiding... Continue Reading

You cannot split your heart and expect your home to stay whole. So yes, let me be clear: I do not think men and women can be friends. And I absolutely do not think married men should cultivate friendships with women, or married women with men. Not only is it dangerous. It is stupid and... Continue Reading

Guarding our tongues is key part of our Christian witness in an increasingly vulgar world. Those around us notice how we talk, and our speech provides opportunities to bring glory to God.   In late elementary and early middle school, I spent a blissful week each summer attending music camp on the campus of Catholic... Continue Reading

When a society totally abandons the transcendent reality of Christ’s present kingship as well as an expectation of his future consummated reign, then that society will also lose all good and true politics.   Ever since Augustine’s The City of God Western political thought has kept some kind of separation—in lesser or greater degrees—between heavenly... Continue Reading

Building a family-friendly culture, in general, must start in the household of God. Churches are to be the soil in which young men and women learn the sacrifice required to be good husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. And if this family friendly culture is to have any stability…then there must be revival in our... Continue Reading

America of course has her fair share of faults. The leftist and critical theorists love to only concentrate on those faults, without ever looking at any positives.   In recent articles I have looked at various related issues, including the injunction for believers to seek the welfare of the city they find themselves in (Jeremiah... Continue Reading

“…I could no longer question His existence. I hadn’t gone through any human or heavenly intermediary to get this. No one was trying to convert me to anything. I hadn’t even told anyone I was searching for anything. And frankly, anything is what I was searching for, not specifically God.”   I deeply love my... Continue Reading

True obedience involves doing some things, and not doing other things. The truly spiritual person (in Jesus) only wants to do those things that please his or her Heavenly Father; and he or she desires to avoid doing the things that displease Him.   The words of the title for this treatise (above) were addressed... Continue Reading

We are not syncretists. We are not compromisers. We are conquerors, reclaiming lost territory for its rightful King. Armed with this theological justification, we are now ready to begin the critical work of sifting the gold from the dross, starting with the Stoic’s most central concept: virtue.   In our first two articles, we have... Continue Reading

Man and woman have nothing to hold against each other. Each has quite glorious virtues and each has rather serious defects. There is room for neither disparagement nor deification with respect to either of them.   At the turn of the twentieth century, Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) found himself confronted by a society increasingly... Continue Reading