“At a time when the Christian church is crying out for more and better leaders, an entire generation of young men and women are infantilizing themselves by not setting the Lord’s Day apart. They constantly choose secular activities over God and their spiritual growth is stunted. For the sake of your church, stop breaking the... Continue Reading

“Unlike sex trafficking, survival sex is not a financial transaction. Survival sex is, quite simply, exchanging one’s body for basic subsistence needs, including clothing, food, and shelter. While estimates vary, most figures put the homeless youth population in the U.S. around 1.5 million. These are kids under the age of 18 who were often either... Continue Reading

“Political mobilization depends on a sense of victimhood, grievance and looming apocalypse, so no matter the correlation of forces on a given issue you can be sure that the professional agitators on both sides will have an incentive to inculcate solidarity by insisting that theirs is the heroic, hard-pressed side about to be crushed by... Continue Reading

Back to Barnabas’ article. I was interested to read his take on being a pastor’s kid. Reading his list, though, I realized that I couldn’t relate to his concerns at all. It took me a minute to realize why: I’m not a celebrity pastor’s kid. Apparently it makes a big difference.   Over at the Blazing Center,... Continue Reading

Some theologians and pastors seem unwilling to suffer for righteousness. As you know there are a number of controversial issues in our day. As I watch ministers or leaders, it seems to me—especially when they are willing to change beliefs that have been maintained for years—that one of the factors is that they do not... Continue Reading

This is where the five solas came from. These were five statements about the content of the Protestant gospel, and by the end of the 1500’s, these were the terms which identified Protestantism. These five phrases are not an extensive statement on theology, but instead served simply as a way to explain what the content of the... Continue Reading

Interestingly, Christianity asserts that the mendacity of mankind tells a tale. For where error is seen in such horrible abundance, there one will also see how fallen and confused sinful humanity truly is, which serves to illuminate one of the most basic tenets of biblical Christianity: The fallenness of man.   Man is a very... Continue Reading

Today there is an intense debate within the church about this vital issue. The stakes are high—your view of sanctification informs and directs how you understand your new nature in Christ, how you evangelize others, pursue godliness, govern your heart and mind, how you raise and discipline your children, and how you understand and follow... Continue Reading

He is twenty-ish and a capable apologist with his friends. If you spoke with him for five minutes you would be impressed with his spiritual depth and think there is hope for the next generation. But, if you spoke with him for a little longer, you would discover that he has decided not to follow... Continue Reading

Under the Affordable Care Act, employers must provide health insurance policies that cover preventive services for women, including contraception and sterilization. The administration had already crafted a compromise for religious-affiliated nonprofits that allows them to “self-certify” to their insurance carriers in a form that they object, on religious grounds, to providing contraception coverage. But various... Continue Reading