We are quick to obsess over temporal safety and slow to cling to eternal security. We cheer political leaders who protect our borders, but yawn at the Christ who secured our eternity. We demand security on earth but neglect the security of heaven. That imbalance reveals our idolatry.   The phone buzzes at midnight. It’s... Continue Reading

“Over 30 years ago, I underwent sex reassignment surgery at the hands of a skilled sex change surgeon, Dr. Stanley Biber. Ever since I could remember, I felt like I was born into the wrong body. The diagnosis was gender dysphoria, or gender identity disorder. The transgender support community provided an answer—take hormones and get... Continue Reading

In a fatherless and identity-confused age, even clothing becomes a tool for discipleship. Boys and young men need visible models of honorable, masculine presence—starting with how a man presents himself to the world.   In a time when cultural confusion about gender identity is rampant, the call for Christian men to live, and dress according... Continue Reading

For many centuries, children have been trained in voice and instruments through religious music. If a child is learning an instrument or singing, use hymns of the faith as their learning material. The more folk-like melodies of hymns are great to learn on piano or violin, for example. Both Keith and I developed our musical... Continue Reading

The Apostle Paul instructs us, “Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor. 10:31). We can glorify God in the smallest of actions—nothing is too insignificant. The big question we should ask ourselves is, Will we wait to live out our chief end?   Glory... Continue Reading

If the modern person considers himself to be something he can create for himself, so he tends to extend that same notion to his relationship to the world in general. We no longer think of ourselves as subject to the world’s fixed nature, or of it as having an objective authority or meaning. We are... Continue Reading

Was it wrong for Paul and Barnabas to argue with the Judaizers(Acts 15:2)? For that matter, was it wrong for the church to debate the question in council (v.7)? What would have happened had Paul and Barnabas and the rest of the church kept silent because they thought public disagreement and dispute were improper? At... Continue Reading

Men, when you take a wife, you are taking responsibility for a covenant. You are not signing up for self-fulfillment, but for self-denial. Your vows are not the start of a fairy tale. They are the beginning of a funeral—for self. To love your wife as Christ loved the Church means to die daily. To... Continue Reading

Books put pressure on our desires. They can teach us to want well or to want poorly, but none is neutral. Like living companions, authors act as mediators of desire; unlike them, they wield the particularly potent magic of the written word, inviting us to enter into their experiences, to participate in their worlds, to... Continue Reading

We live in a time, in which the state has inflated its scope, but its not merely because of statism, although human beings created in the image of God, do have in innate drive to become total sovereigns, if unchecked. We have witnessed a statist expansionism, not merely because of statist aggressiveness, but also because... Continue Reading