Do You Hate Your Sinful Self?
Seeing ourselves in light of God’s holiness.
God loves the person He created you to be, and He hates what sin has done to you. His compassion toward you is matched by His relentless opposition to the disease that enslaves you. The refrain has been repeated often enough over the past 50 years that it now passes for common sense: The... Continue Reading
Disestablished Dominion: A Rejoinder to Alan Strange and James Baird
Southern Presbyterian churches were socio-political hearts of communities where children were educated and where enthusiastic political meetings were held.
Disestablishment by the middle of the 19th century led to an ecclesiocentric order in the South, where practical secularism had been the norm during the Enlightenment-influenced 18th century. In the 19th century South, secular politics created the conditions for a disestablished dominion of unparalleled ecclesiastical socio-political influence. What did the Presbyterians who met in... Continue Reading
On Dying Well: Ben Sasse and the Vocation of Suffering
Ben Sasse’s recent announcement reveals to us both goods and virtues that show in his dying a glimmer of light, a stirring of hope, and the possibility of spring even in one’s final winter.
The hope of the Christian in suffering and dying has to be a hope that bears the suffering one has been given, and never abandons the reliance on God’s promised fidelity. That is surely one of the hardest of the hard Christian truths: that suffering well requires one not simply seek to eradicate it, but... Continue Reading
Until the Day Dawns
We stand upon this Word of God, we set our anchor here to weather the storms of false teaching, of sin’s temptations, of despair and confusion.
The Word of God is our guide, our companion in the darkness, the Word which comes from God is our hope and confidence. This is not our own creation in the darkness but God’s gift of light here and now. And it will carry you along until the new day dawns, until the end of... Continue Reading
Even in Your Groaning, Remember That the Lord Will Restore All Things
God will crush evil and restore and purify his people. Evil will not win.
We sometimes cry out, “God, are you there? Do you see what is happening? Do you hear our cries for help? Have you abandoned what you have made?” We feel weak and powerless, unable to bring about the massive change that is needed. And so we pray and hope. But prayer is not a final... Continue Reading
Feminization and the Problem of Functional Female Officers
The PCA’s restriction of ordination to qualified men is not a judgment on women’s worth or spiritual capacity. It is a theological claim about how God governs His church.
When churches create roles for women that closely resemble the work, visibility, and symbolic authority of ordained officers—while denying that these roles carry authority—they introduce confusion. Authority becomes something that can be visually imitated without being formally bestowed. The congregation is taught (however unintentionally) that authority is aesthetic rather than substantive. For Dr. Guy... Continue Reading
God’s Final Eu-Topia
In Jesus’ resurrection God has demonstrated that he has redeemed, is redeeming, and will redeem us as whole persons, soul and body reunited, vivified and purified to glorify and enjoy him forever.
Our great hope, then, is not to escape “place”—not to escape the fact that we have bodies that are located at specific places in time and space. The hope that God promises us is that he will bring us into his eu-topia—his very good place, to live in his presence as he lives among us in the person of... Continue Reading
Resisting the Lure of Catholicism and Orthodoxy
If we want to care for students looking south or east of Geneva or beyond Hillsong, we must recognize they are often motivated by experiential concerns more than doctrinal concerns.
Students need to encounter Christian piety and practice that is rigorous in cruciformity, but rooted in the imputed righteousness from Christ by faith alone. We must counter the “Be a man” secular virtue ethic with Reformed sanctification. Call disciples to “leave their nets” and follow Jesus with mortification of sin and calls to holiness, but... Continue Reading
On Evangelicalism, Theological Decadence, and Our Great Salvation
We must not settle for a small God and a small salvation.
“The modes of expression are many, but evangelical spirituality will always find a way to declare its adherence to God himself, emphasizing precisely the personal character of it. In view of the way God has thrown open his heart and turned his inner life inside out to be our salvation, how else could the people... Continue Reading
Pronoun Priority Over Safety: Trans Ideology’s Role in Canada Shooting
Were eight people murdered by a mentally ill teenage boy suffering from fundamental delusions? Or was the killer a young woman? Just a few years ago, the question would have struck Canadians as absurd.
Under Bill C-4 (2022), it became illegal for young men like Strang to acquire counseling to address gender dysphoria and to become comfortable with his body; the Trudeau government claimed, absurdly, that body-affirming counseling constitutes “conversion therapy.” Several journalists pointed out that the RCMP’s inaccurate description of the shooter, while the situation was ongoing, as “female” was a “prime example of... Continue Reading
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