He Came to a World of Folly
O Wisdom from on High
During Advent, then, we remember with great joy that Jesus came to a world of folly to show us how to live with wisdom from God. When we follow his paths—when we listen to his teaching—we gradually become more and more like him, the true Wise One from on high. O come, O Wisdom... Continue Reading
My Top Ten Books of 2024
If you want to know why the biblical doctrine of humanity is now one of the most critical doctrines under attack in the modern world, you need to take the time to read this book.
Several years ago, Carl Trueman wrote one of the most important books of our generation, ‘The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self’. If you want to understand why the Western world is the way it is today, this is one of the books you have to read (An abridged version was released under the... Continue Reading
What One Chinese Pastor Can Teach You About Suffering Faithfully
Wang quietly embodied so much of what I hear Christians in America today trying to figure out: how to be in the world but not of it.
Wang’s life invites us to ask, What’s the nature of a Christian hero? Does such a person exist? In the creation of heroes, humanity is prone to navel-gazing. Throughout history, men and women have been tempted to make more of each other than they deserve, and it doesn’t serve the persecuted church to put it... Continue Reading
The End of Protestant Retrieval
When we debate difficult questions of human life together, we ought to do so in a consistently Christian way—with due regard for logical precision and conceptual clarity.
A truth-claim regarding (for instance) the simplicity of God is “necessary” in that it is integral to the definition of Him: God would not be God were He not metaphysically simple. On a classical theist account, to be actus purus, without unrealized potentialities, is simply what it means to be God. What this means is that the claims of Protestant... Continue Reading
Fertility Shows Why Christians Must Be Concerned About Political Greatness
The struggles of parenthood appear as nothing when we have great things to do in the political and religious worlds.
The best thing to promote fertility is to promote marriage. This means discouraging ideologies hostile to marriage and promoting healthy religious belief. Ideologies are lullabies, entrancing people to embrace the bright side of cultural decay. James Burnham called liberalism the ideology of western suicide. Among modern Western peoples, feminism and sexual liberation ideologies are our... Continue Reading
Why Does the Gospel of Mark End without Mention of Jesus’s Resurrection?
As Christians, we never move past the cross. Even throughout eternity we will sing, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain!”
Mark’s ending calls us to discipleship. I contend that he intends to use the failure of the male disciples in Mark 14–15 and the female disciples in Mark 16 to remind us both that Jesus graciously uses even imperfect sinners to build his perfect kingdom and that their failures serve to call us to be... Continue Reading
Life in a Fallen World – And in the Next
On being reunited with departed loved ones in the next life.
Our source of comfort isn’t only that we’ll be with the Lord in Heaven but also that we’ll be with one another. Christ is “the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last” (Revelation 22:13, NIV). He alone is sufficient to meet all our needs. Yet God has designed us for relationship not only... Continue Reading
Salvation and the World
Here is a call to worship: Keep Jesus always before your eyes.
Everything in the world—everything in your world—is groaning and travailing under the burden of sin and unbelief. Everything can be improved. Everything needs more of the King’s beauty, goodness, and truth so that it can realize the “very good” possibilities God has invested in it. Your world already shows much evidence of Christ’s rule, but... Continue Reading
Augustine’s ‘The City of God’ and Why It Matters Today
God’s kingdom is a kingdom which shall indeed prevail.
Augustine provides a model for how Christians ought to think of all of world history in explicitly Christian and biblical categories. As Christians raise children and attempt to think about the world we live in on God’s terms—and not ours—Augustine offers a model for making sense of the world in explicitly biblical categories. That is,... Continue Reading
Does Original Sin Still Explain the Human Condition?
The reality of mankind’s inability to save himself truthfully guides us more and more into the beauty of the gospel.
Ephesians 2 provides a clear depiction of the fallen condition of humanity apart from the grace-filled saving work of God, but Romans 5:12 is the locus classicus for discussions about original sin. In this chapter, Paul seeks to expand on his argument in the earlier chapters of Romans by describing the universal impact of the... Continue Reading
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