Battling Technology with Beauty
Is the antidote for our dystopia being surrounded by beauty?
In his book, ‘The Beauty of the Lord’, Jonathan King makes a wonderful case that Beauty can be properly identified as a synonym for the glory of God. The implication is that Beauty is a divine attribute. King mentions such passages as Psalm 27:4; 96:6; and 145:5,12 which portray images of the crown, kingdom, and... Continue Reading
What Is God’s Calling for Me?
Work is not just how you get by in life but how you truly change the world, one faithful step at a time.
Vocation is another word for “calling.” Each of us must learn to “lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him” (1 Cor. 7:17). God has called you to do something special. And, while you don’t have to know exactly what that is, there is much you... Continue Reading
Some Sense and Sanity on Slavery
Clear thinking on this troubling reality.
“You, dear reader, are no more responsible for slavery than German millennials are for the Holocaust. Understand how it works? To suggest, as some overpaid politicians now do, that Western people today are somehow tainted by the enslavement of Africans by some of their ancestors, is an idea so extraordinarily backward that even the Old... Continue Reading
The Pursuit of Holiness
Lessons that I have learned from the book by Jerry Bridges.
This book is really good. No wonder why many Christians recommend it. It’s time that you read it as well. Let’s encourage and motivate each other in our pursuit of holiness because God says that we should be holy as He is holy. (1 Pet. 1:15) Holiness is the pathway to true happiness because as... Continue Reading
6 Metaphors the Bible Uses for the Church
Figures of Speech That Show Us Major Themes of God’s Word
One of the most beautiful ways in which God’s Word describes the church is through vivid metaphors that illuminate the identity and corporate life of the church in union with Christ. Some of these metaphors, such as Christ’s bride and body, are so familiar to Christians that we often fail to think about the amazing... Continue Reading
Enjoying Jesus
This new book by Tim Chester is well worth the read.
While each chapter is brief (perhaps around a dozen pages each), they are filled with practical and helpful material, based on basic biblical and theological truths. One way to give you a flavour of the book is to look at a few of these chapters, and present some useful quotes from them. In his chapter on... Continue Reading
A Review of Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come By John Daniel Davidson
Can America be saved, or is it too late?
“Postmodern witchcraft, then, is in one sense a kind of secular substitute for organized religion, and specifically for the Christian faith. With its focus on self-empowerment, self-care, and identity politics, you might even call it neopaganism for the “nones.” It is easy to see the appeal of all this to young people in a post-Christian... Continue Reading
When Christians Disagree: A Book Review
It may introduce you to disagreements that you did not know existed. Despite these results, it is worth an evening or two of reading and months of meditation and application.
We live in divided times—we live in polarized times. There are reflections worthy of making in this fractured relationship between two Puritan giants. Are all matters worth dividing over? Were the issues that Owen and Baxter divided over worthy of division? Are your divisions with your reformed and evangelical brother worth dividing over? Again, I... Continue Reading
Cultural Sanctification in 50 AD and 2024 AD
Review of Stephen O. Presley’s Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World Like the Early Church (2024).
In his new book, Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World like the Early Church, historian Stephen O. Presley draws on the Bible and an extensive array of early church primary sources to tell stories of Christians (including Paul) engaging their pagan neighbors wherever and whenever they could. Faced with a hostile culture, the natural reaction would... Continue Reading
Living With Integrity in a Post-Truth World
“Truth Be Told” by Lionel Windsor
Truth Be Told is excellent for those grappling with anxiety about our culture’s loss of objectivity, refocusing our energy towards the real goal of living with integrity as people of truth. This is a welcome move away from handwringing about our generation’s “feelings over facts” tendencies and gives us something we can work on: our... Continue Reading
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