The Blood That Satisfies
If you are in Christ, you live because of the blood of the Lamb of God
In the blood of Christ, we have what we lost in Adam, namely, life. The shedding of our Savior’s blood was significant not for the blood itself but for what it represents. It represents the perfect, sinless life of Christ poured out unto death for us (Isa. 53:12). The Bible is full of epochal events,... Continue Reading
Beware of Baby Envy
Since biblical times, women have struggled to rejoice at another’s pregnancy
When I envy my neighbor’s baby bump, I hurt myself and others. By distrusting God’s purposes, I refuse to learn the good lessons he is teaching me through my trial. By obsessing about what I don’t have, I fail to glorify him and serve others with the many gifts I do. And by responding to... Continue Reading
Office Space in Christ’s Kingdom
It is so easy to gather together and lament over the condition of our culture.
So what are we told to do, try our hardest to transform all the “isms”? Work to reverse the process of secularization? Commit to live separately from the world to avoid modernization and all its effects? No, Jesus told us what to do and how he is expanding his kingdom: “Go therefore and make disciples... Continue Reading
Thoughts on street preaching
In recent weeks there has been a spate of arrests of Christian brothers in the UK involved in street preaching and other open-air witness
Having said all that, I shall probably be arrested next time I go out, but I hope and pray not. Ideally, I shall go on learning to preach Christ to those who either have never heard of him or who have no accurate idea of who he is and what he has done. I shall... Continue Reading
A Summary of a Discussion on Transformationalism: Trueman, Evans, DeYoung, and Hart
The ongoing debate on the church’s ministry and its relationship and impact to culture
[Editor’s note: The concept of transformationalism has generated much debate on The Aquila Report. We have summarized some of the arguments presented in this discussion; each article is summarized below with a link to the full article so readers can read the whole in context. The debate will continue in other forums and web sites... Continue Reading
When Counselors Make House Calls
An eighty-five year old in a nursing home confesses a longstanding sin and finds release in Jesus
He quickly responded, “All my relationships are bad.” Now we were getting somewhere. The sparks of humility and insight were starting to fly. He continued, “I don’t even think I am a Christian.” He was looking through eyes overflowing with tears. “I disagree, but why do you say that?” His string of broken relationships was... Continue Reading
What is R2k Theology?
R2k affirms that God’s law and His Son rule the world in two related but distinct ways
At their best, those who espouse R2K theology rightly reject the common temptation among evangelicals to wrap up our theological convictions in the American flag, to confuse God’s kingdom with these United States…. At their worst, however, R2K theology can silence the prophetic voice of the church. While many R2K advocates would be comfortable with... Continue Reading
50 ‘Hand-Picked’ Christians Trained To Convince Churches To Re-Interpret Scripture’s Gay Boundaries
Fifty hand-picked Christians were part of a seminal conference in an effort to spread the idea in the American church that Scripture allows for monogamous homosexual activity
Many Christians think they cannot believe in the full authority and inspiration of the Bible and at the same time support same-sex relationships, says Matthew Vines, though he hopes to convince them that isn’t the case. Vines says he’s received several hundred emails over the course of the last year-and-a-half from conservative-minded Christians who have... Continue Reading
A Global Slaughter of Christians, But America’s Churches Stay Silent
Christians are being singled out and massacred from Pakistan to Syria to the Nairobi shopping mall. There deafening silence from U.S. pews and pulpits
Lela Gilbert is the author of Saturday People, Sunday People, which details the expulsion of 850,000 Jews who fled or were forced to leave Muslim countries in the mid-20th century. The title of her book comes from an Islamist slogan, “First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People,” which means “first we kill the Jews,... Continue Reading
Secession or Being Faithful – Is This the Real Choice Facing Church of Scotland Evangelicals?
A response to Alastair Morrice, one of the most senior and respected evangelicals in the Church of Scotland, to his article on why he believes that evangelicals should stay within the Kirk
I was recently talking to an elder who has left the Church of Scotland. He spoke of feeling free and the shackles coming off…. It may be that you can operate with the shackles of a bureaucratic Presbyterianism in a declining church in an increasingly secular culture, desperately trying to relive the glories of the... Continue Reading