The One Who Endures: The Parable of the Soils
The Bible teaches that those who make genuine professions of faith will continue in those confessions of faith; they will bear fruit as a consequence of God’s working in them.
Consider your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Is it bearing fruit? Does it continue stable and steadfast in the Lord? Are they subtle ways that it is shifting from the gospel? Just as one might see warning signs as you drive down the road and you apply the brakes and respond responsibly, so God... Continue Reading
What About Divorce And Abuse?
No matter what one’s view on divorce is, all faithful Christians must be absolutely clear that abuse is a sin and a crime.
When it comes to abuse, one’s view of divorce is not the immediate issue. Those who hold the 2-exceptions view and those who hold the “no divorce ever” view must agree on this: No matter what one’s view on divorce is, all faithful Christians must be absolutely clear that abuse is a sin and a... Continue Reading
The Best Defense Is a Good Offense: C.S. Lewis’s Abolition of Man
Lewis’s warnings about the consequences of jettisoning natural law remain as trenchant today as they were when delivered during the Second World War.
Lewis’s point in his concluding chapter is that those who have put human nature on the dissecting table to be manipulated will no longer be guided by the morality that is, or was thought to be, inextricably connected to it. Lewis knew that some, perhaps many, will welcome this brave new world. Others of us... Continue Reading
What Does It Mean That Scripture Is Inspired?
Scripture is God’s inspired word, but what exactly does that mean?
The biblical word for inspiration is the Greek word theopneustos, but it appears only once in Scripture (2 Tim. 3:16). There is no OT word for “inspiration”; one will search the Septuagint in vain for theopneustos or any word like it. Even so, I argue that Scripture teaches its own verbal plenary inspiration. What that means is best... Continue Reading
Liberalism Failed Because It Collapsed Under Its Own Weight
Liberalism, as a centuries-old political philosophy, is rooted in a defective understanding of the human person.
Liberalism heralds individual liberties but, ironically, effectively facilitates disempowerment, fragmentation, and resentment. As the state expands—in order to protect and advance individual liberty—its depersonalized bureaucracy and globalized market become increasingly powerful forces to which isolated individuals must submit. Today’s populist and nationalist movements suggest that liberalism is failing in certain significant respects—not because it has... Continue Reading
How the New Corporate Elite Sold Same-Sex Marriage to the American Public
Darel Paul’s meticulous, courageous account of how the elites brought same-sex marriage to America deserves to be read by all who would understand where we are and where we're going.
It took forty years for elites to bring us the normalization of homosexuality and acceptance for same-sex marriage. They are using the same techniques now to achieve transgender rights, and success may be on the horizon. A country in which such serious erosions of fundamentally important institutions happen so swiftly may be a country celebrating... Continue Reading
Irreconcilable Differences
Belief in the Biblical Creator and random mutation makes no sense.
Let’s stop equivocating: Is God the operator in nature, or is time-plus-chance? If as a Christian you bashfully sneak in a God at the beginning and then switch to the Evolution bandwagon, you will still have to contend with Biblical testimony of a hands-on Creator and not a deistic higher power who wound the clock... Continue Reading
When Preaching Is Big & God Is Small
Speaking in front of people still triggers a low-grade fear
“Most often, I suffer the same problem as the authorities. I love glory, and I want to get it from other people. I want to be esteemed and praised. And I want my stock to go up when I speak. I’m a glory-hound – I love the glory that comes from man more than the... Continue Reading
One Great Difference Between A Covenantal Piety And The American Conversionist Alternative
By conversionism I mean the view that unless one can remember a specific time, event, or experience during which one became a believer, one is most likely not actually converted
“Suffice it to say that the biblical picture of salvation is rather different. Our Lord in no way implied in Revelation 3:20 that humans have the ability to will the contrary. The same God who sent 10 plagues upon Pharaoh and Egypt, who parted the Red Sea, and who delivered his people through it on... Continue Reading
Andy Stanley: Church Unity Is More Important Than ‘Being Theologically Correct’
Stanley spoke of how he came to believe that believing in Jesus Christ was more important than theological arguments like how communion should be served or if babies should be baptized
“Will we prioritize our oneness over our politics? Will we continue to allow the kingdom of the world to divide the Kingdom of God that is in this world because of politics?” Stanley argued that oneness in the faith was “more important than being theologically correct,” adding that he believed when Christians of various denominations... Continue Reading