If you are brave enough, take a bit of an audit of what is of greatest importance to you. Look at your typical day and where the time goes. What is it that you spend money on? What do you find yourself talking about? If you don’t like what you find, make some changes.   ... Continue Reading

We are called to a life of discipline and labor for our Lord Jesus and His Kingdom. We are not called to seek an easy or comfortable life…If you let comfort replace discipline in your life, there will be unhealthy physical and spiritual consequences.   Searching Google for “the silent killer” reveals that high blood... Continue Reading

When we repent, we will not meet a God who is putting us on spiritual probation.…We will not encounter a God who demands some kind of repayment for all we have squandered. Nothing like that. Only kindness. Grace. Love. Acceptance.   Martin Luther once wrote, ““When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, ‘Repent’, he... Continue Reading

What loss would not merely wound us, but unmake us? The children? The approval? The health? The life we have so carefully constructed? Good gifts, all of them. Terrible gods. Everything else will give way. He will not.   12 Minutes to the Bottom The Atlantic in November is not a place that offers second... Continue Reading

In God’s hands, fire and force can be used for a number of “drosses,” “impurities,” and “excesses”….But His purpose is always the same: separation for purification.   Last week, we explored the rich and ancient nuances behind Jesus’ renowned metaphor: “You are the salt of the earth”—7 to be exact. In biblical times, salt carried... Continue Reading

Love Thy Body is an extended consideration of what a Christian ethic of the body is. Pearcey contrasts the Christian and the dualistic contemporary Western understanding of the body. She then navigates how these distinctive views of the body play themselves out in everything from abortion to euthanasia to understanding gender and sexuality.   Who... Continue Reading

The Church does not need more people trained to scan for wolves. She needs shepherds who feed sheep, guard the fold, and correct error without turning the flock into spectators of accusation.   Discernment is biblical; the way we’ve professionalized it is not. When correction detaches from shepherding, exposure replaces formation, and platforms become rival... Continue Reading

If justification occurs at a moment in time, as Scripture clearly teaches, our self-righteousness and fear of condemnation are eliminated simultaneously as God, at the first moment of faith, declares us righteous apart from our works.   It has been said that justification is the article by which the church is standing or falling. This... Continue Reading

Ultimately, the authors invite the reader to do what they themselves have done—to test the claims of Christianity and to enjoy the wonders of this world through the lens of one who sees the existence and attributes of God displayed in the things He has made.   Whatever else young people know today, they know... Continue Reading

The righteous run to the name of the Lord. They run to who He is, not just what He does. They anchor themselves in His character….His name is strong. His name is holy. His name is enough.   The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is... Continue Reading