Authority is Good
For far less than an obstruction to the gospel, authority is a picture of Jesus’ very life and ministry to us.
There are creatures, and a creator, and they are not the same thing. When it comes to authority, God is completely and utterly other. Whether we are husbands, mothers, managers, or pastors, we serve at God’s pleasure, derive our authority from his power, and expect obedience from others only insofar as he allows. Authority in... Continue Reading
Come Alive by Listening to the Dead
Allow God to use the words of these men of former days to encourage you to revive or maintain earnestness in evangelism for His glory.
I recently read ‘How to Bring Men to Christ’ and found that it met me where I needed spiritual guidance. The book was written to urge God’s people to have a love for souls and to help those whom God’s Spirit has awakened to personal evangelism. Torrey continually proclaimed Christ through preaching, evangelistic meetings, as well... Continue Reading
As a Bloke, I Had a ‘Barbie’ Moment Reading This Book on Masculinity
When we understand who we’re turning up for and what we really value, turning up, again and again, starts to feel different.
While following Jesus does bring meaning and purpose that nothing else can bring, life can still feel mundane. So, what’s the answer? Stewart takes us to a surprising passage of the Bible, where the apostle Paul writes about God’s power working in the lives of believers, so that they might have…great endurance and patience (Col... Continue Reading
10 Lesser-Known References to Jesus in the Old Testament
Signs that Point to Jesus
We should not overlook the role of Balaam’s donkey. The donkey spoke and functioned as a prophet to Balaam himself, serving to rescue him from death by avoiding the angel with his drawn sword (Num. 22:22–35). The rescue of Balaam is a type pointing us to Christ, who permanently and definitively rescues us from sin... Continue Reading
Confessional Confidence in a World Gone Mad
Review: "Crisis of Confidence" by Carl Trueman
Expressive individualism contends truth must be the most authentic expression of what comes subjectively from within us. In contrast, confessionalism affirms that truth exists objectively outside us and should shape us. The Christian worldview demands we conform to reality and truth as it comes to us from God via general and special revelation. Confessionalism helps... Continue Reading
A Queer Book
We face a future conflict between the pagan gods and the true God, as in Roman times and many other such times.
As Christians we must ask what the future holds. At the end of the Sixties Revolution, Jungian psychologist and Gnostic spiritualist, June Singer, wrote a 1997 book ‘Androgyny: Towards a New Sexuality’. At the end of the Sixties Revolution, she saw and affirmed that the spiritual age of Aquarius was also the age of “androgyny”... Continue Reading
A Brief Review of Abigail Shrier’s “Bad Therapy”
None of the criticisms I’ve read undermine the basic thrust of Shrier’s book—that children are not alright.
Shrier’s book is giving parents permission to rethink the therapeutic paradigms that have dominated child-rearing literature for a long time now. She gives parents permission to see their children as moral agents who need their character formed by loving parents rather than as merely victims of an array of alleged pathologies that require third-party interventions... Continue Reading
What Does the Aaronic Blessing Ultimately Promise Us?
A Benediction of Shalom
The Aaronic blessing not only contains but also anticipates the greater fullness of seeing God face to face, seeing our Creator and our Redeemer as he is, and as a consequence, sharing in his divine life, sharing in his beatitude, his blessedness. The ultimate climax or aim can be seen, first of all, from... Continue Reading
Warfield on Jesus’s Anger at the Death of Lazarus
Not in cold unconcern, but in flaming wrath against the foe, Jesus smites in our behalf.
The spectacle of the distress of Mary and her companions enraged Jesus because it brought poignantly home to his consciousness the evil of death, its unnaturalness, its “violent tyranny” as Calvin (on verse 38) phrases it. In Mary’s grief, he “contemplates” — still to adopt Calvin’s words (on verse 33), — “the general misery of... Continue Reading
An Open Letter to the Church Member Hurt by Their Local Church
Our Redeemer is never surprised by sin, nor has he ever promised us a church that’s free of it.
Set your eyes on eternity. This is not a means of ignoring reality, but the only way of truly facing it. There is a day when all the pain you suffer from the presence of sin and Satan will vanish. Focus more on your future accounting before Christ than on those who fail you on... Continue Reading
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