The success of the Bible in pop culture is evidence that, as much as we may try to reject it in our sin and cultural rebellions, this Story of the world cannot be fully suppressed. We need not update, massage, embellish, or water down the message of the Bible. It’s already the best Story in... Continue Reading

This could be nothing more than Disney capitalizing on the success of “Wicked.” It’s a formula: take a villain, make them sympathetic. Or it could be an extension of something much deeper in our culture that is just now reaching our classic villains of fiction.   A new live show debuts later this month at... Continue Reading

A study of the construction of places of Yahweh-worship, including primitive altars, the tabernacle, Solomon’s temple, and The Second Temple all anticipate a future and final temple that would be made without human hands.   The virgin birth of Christ has always been proclaimed as a doctrine to be believed by the church. It is... Continue Reading

Natural theology does not begin from atheistic anthropology, according to which man does not possess an innate idea of God. Natural theology begins from the common epistemic faculties of human beings and the evidence of the external world. Together, Vos argues, these provide all people, whatever their ideological presuppositions, with testimony of God.   Even before attending... Continue Reading

Local believers need to be raised up who can write local songs, hymns, and spiritual songs for the church and then go on to lead and play them skillfully. Because of my grandmom, I know the potential impact of this kind of work. Through good songs, local believers can unstoppably retain and reproduce truths from... Continue Reading

A Christian can defeat himself in two ways: one is to forget the holiness of God and the fact that sin is sin. The Bible calls us to an ever deeper commitment in giving ourselves to Christ for Him to produce His fruit through us. The other is to allow himself to be worn out... Continue Reading

What if Agnes Shankle had stayed silent? What if she had simply gone with the pulpit committee’s judgment? What if she had thought, “Who am I to speak up? I’m just a Sunday school teacher.” In the entire one-hundred-and-fifty years of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, this might prove to be the most decisive moment. Had... Continue Reading

“From my own observations, most people who become supporters of Christian nationalism do not begin as right-wing political activists first (although political leaders may cynically exploit Christian nationalists for their own white nationalist power campaigns). On the contrary, Christian nationalists start out as Christian first.” (p. 43). This is analogous to what happens as people... Continue Reading

Just as the athletes discarded everything and competed gumnos—free from anything that could possibly burden them—so we must get rid of every encumbrance, every association, habit, and tendency that impedes godliness. If we are to excel, we must strip ourselves to a lean, spiritual nakedness… Men, we will never get anywhere spiritually without a conscious... Continue Reading

God has given us many tasks that are both a duty and a blessing. God blesses us to be able to fulfill His will/desire for our lives. This involves bearing the image of God to the world around us. Video games take me away from those types of thoughts and fill my mind with a... Continue Reading