The claim that Christians who oppose Obamacare do so because they don’t want to be “their brother’s keeper” is nonsense. Most Christians who oppose Obamacare do so because they believe God’s command to care for the sick and needy are personal commands that should not be supplanted by government mandates. There’s no Christian charity in... Continue Reading

 In my estimation, the primary theological problem in youth ministry is emphasizing law and neglecting grace. More specifically, grace appears when offering students eternal salvation but strangely disappears in discussions about holiness, sanctification, and the Christian life. In my experience as a teenager and a youth pastor, many of my peers in ministry faithfully proclaim... Continue Reading

While most pro-life work focuses on women in crisis pregnancies and their decision to keep or abort the baby, fewer Christians seem involved with helping women after they decide to have the baby. Megan said once she had Ethan, life as she knew it really did end: She’s had to shift her focus from her... Continue Reading

“The issue is that he has championed the church’s official position against homosexuality,” Dartmouth junior Andrew Longhi wrote in a blog post on The Huffington Post website. “The tendency to discriminate against (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people is so diametrically opposed to how I understand faith and religion that selecting a ‘social conservative’ to this post baffles... Continue Reading

Furthermore, music is one of God’s most precious gifts to his people, and it is a language by which we may worship God in spirit and in truth. The hymns of the faith convey rich confessional and theological content, and many modern choruses recover a sense of doxology formerly lost in many evangelical churches. But... Continue Reading

Indeed, as the reader works through the book, there will be moments in which you particularly appreciate the precise way in which he has angled the lighting, even as you gape in delight at the portraits which, so lit, reveal something of the beauty and majesty of the Lord Jesus. Perhaps best of all, preachers... Continue Reading

Schools must enforce codes of discipline and maintain clear rules against incivility and malicious behavior. But that hardly requires abolishing tag, imposing games of tug of peace or banning superhero play. Efforts to re-engineer the young-male imagination are doomed to fail, but they will succeed spectacularly in at least one way. They will send a... Continue Reading

If you’ve read Radical, please read Veith’s God at Work to learn a more balanced approach to the Christian life.  There are no guilt-trips in Veith’s book and it is a more edifying and encouraging approach to serving God and neighbor.  And remember whatLuther’s teaching: “A maid is more godly than a monk.”   One major and glaring weakness in... Continue Reading

When the smartphone or iPad (or name your mobile device) replaces a hardcopy of Scripture, something is missing in our nonverbal communication to unbelieving onlookers. When you walk to church, sit down on a bus, or discipline one another at a coffee shop, a hard copy of the Bible sends a loud and bold message... Continue Reading

If we believe like Carey, are we as zealous for God being glorified in the salvation of the heathen as he was? If theology motivated him, and we believe Carey’s theology, then our zeal and passion should be in his likeness as well. True Calvinists–Carey’s Calvinists and even John Calvin’s Calvinists–will seek the world with the... Continue Reading