In October, GAFCON rejected the Instruments of the Anglican Communion, namely the archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates Meeting, for failing to uphold the doctrine and discipline of the Anglican Communion. Archbishop Laurent Mbanda of Rwanda declared that the Anglican Communion will be “re-ordered, with only one foundation... Continue Reading

Negative and positive answers can both rest on the same principles. “No” immediately turns people away. With the positive answer you not only can preserve your ecclesiological commitments, but you also encourage and disciple the questioner.   One of the most helpful pieces of advice I received was from a Scottish Presbyterian minister who said:... Continue Reading

“We hope this settlement shows teachers that they do not have to bow the knee to ideological mandates that violate their religious beliefs. And schools should learn that refusing to accommodate religious employees can be illegal and expensive.”—ADF Senior Counsel and Vice President of U.S. Litigation David Cortman.   INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—An Indiana school district agreed... Continue Reading

Whilst it is true that the rise of Islam has not caused the decline of Christianity—it is also true that Islam, in conjunction with their allies, the Green Progressives, will accelerate the death of Christian Britain, and will result in discrimination and persecution against real Christians.   The Bradford taxi driver was insistent—despite my sceptical... Continue Reading

The Bible isn’t merely the story of something God wanted, sin ruining it, Jesus fixing it, and believers eventually going to heaven. The larger arc is this. God desired to dwell with humanity in sacred space. He created image bearers to rule as priests. The image was corrupted. He redeemed and recreated a people. He... Continue Reading

The standards that shaped Paul for a ministry that transcended all cultures were the virtues of honor, submission, modesty, and moderation. Grounded in the headships that God had established, these were the virtues that had to be expressed through the norms of public propriety in the cultures where God placed him. These virtues would be... Continue Reading

Anxious rumination is a form of foresight untethered from trust. It is the soul’s attempt to rehearse loss in advance in hopes that suffering will somehow sting less when it comes. But listen to me: suffering imagined is not suffering redeemed. And as Lewis warned, imagined pain makes us suffer twice, but only one of... Continue Reading

Through Jesus’ parable and Mark’s illustrations, we are meant to sober up to the reality of affliction for the sake of Christ. We must never be content with an initial joy of the gospel. The true test comes when the waves of woe crash against us from those who seek to shipwreck our faith. Through... Continue Reading

In the prologue to John’s gospel, when John tells us that the Word became flesh and “dwelt” among us, he chooses a verb related to the Greek noun used to describe the tabernacle: Literally, we might say, the Word “tabernacled” among us (John 1:14). Jesus truly is “Immanuel” (God with us; Matt. 1:23), experiencing all... Continue Reading

The reason the Father gave his Son is so that we might not perish but have everlasting life. Or as 1 John 4:9 says, “God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.” Paul says in Galatians that if the law could have given life, then Christ died in vain.... Continue Reading