Movie Review: Nefarious
"Nefarious" is a modern-day take on C.S. Lewis’s famous "The Screwtape Letters."
There is so much to appreciate about this film, and not just because it’s a good movie. Nefarious is a theologically orthodox explanation about God, the Devil, and the cosmic battle which occurs every day for a person’s soul. Nefarious is the best movie you’re likely not to see in 2023. Why that is the case has nothing... Continue Reading
Your Role in the Bigger Story
We will not know this side of heaven just how much influence we will have had in this life – just how much good we may have done for Christ and the kingdom.
We can do so much even in the mundane things of life. As I have said before, simply walking the dogs can be part of our kingdom-building efforts. When I walk my dog twice daily, I pray for all my neighbours as I walk past their houses. It is likely that only in the next life will I... Continue Reading
Reinterpreting Church History: A Response to Mimi Haddad, “History Matters”
We ought not to read back in time our own novel ideas about men and women derived from a century of complicated social and philosophical upheaval.
Haddad provides little in the way of evidence for her claim that complementarians rarely discuss abuse while egalitarians make it one of their main emphases. One might rather say that egalitarians often make the accusation that complementarianism fosters abuse. Unhappily, the questions for which our own age beg for answers engender little curiosity for egalitarians like... Continue Reading
An Excerpt from “Irony and the Presbyterian Church in America,” An Informed History of the First Half Century of the PCA.
The excerpt: “The 1996 (24th) General Assembly: Without A Vision (Or The Concerned) The People Did Just Fine.”
This book is an informed history of the first half century of a denomination formed in 1973. Other works discuss the events and personalities which led up to the founding of the Presbyterian Church in America, but this one traces the development and history of that church from 1973-2023. This volume benefits from the observations... Continue Reading
Learning Apologetics from Augustine
For Augustine, apologetics and soul care go hand in hand.
In Confessions, he tells a better and more rational story about reason, interweaving how our thinking depends on trust, how our deepest desires move us along through life, and how disordered loves misalign our intellectual quests for the truth. And he does this all while layering his account with the Scriptures; most notably the Psalms,... Continue Reading
Machen’s Orthodoxy and Progressive Christianity: Reflections on Chapter 5 of “Christianity and Liberalism” (Part 2)
The liberalism of Machen’s day and the progressive Christianity of our own is uncomfortable with the abundant New Testament testimony that Jesus of Nazareth is to be identified entirely with the one true and living God.
Where feminism questions the place of the maleness of Jesus in the bigger story of the Christian gospel, transgender ideology undermines the very reality of his maleness altogether. Whether or not Jesus was a man, a woman, or some non-binary “other” becomes an open-ended question in the worldview of contemporary gender theorists.[6]. What is one... Continue Reading
Children Need Their Parents, Not Big Government
“I homeschool because I have seen the village and I don’t want it raising my child.”
Depending upon the State to instil these virtues of morality, self-reliance, personal responsibility, and respect for others is a pipe dream. Sure, not every parent will be an ideal role model in these areas, but I would far rather trust them to ‘train up a child in the way he should go’ than rely on government bureaucrats and... Continue Reading
Knowing Scripture
The appropriate approach to systematic theology recognizes that the Bible itself contains a system of truth.
Though the Bible is not like any other book in that it carries with it the authority of divine inspiration, nevertheless, the inspiration of the Holy Spirit over a written text does not turn verbs into nouns or nouns into verbs. No special, secret, arcane, esoteric meaning is poured into a text simply because it’s... Continue Reading
God’s Principles for Marriage
Like most Puritans, Gouge treated the duties of marriage in three sections: mutual duties, the husband’s duties, and the wife’s duties.
Gouge presented a remarkably insightful treatment of the beauty and glory of Christian marriage. His vision for matrimony was holistic and practical, yet very much centered around the Lord. Husbands and wives have different roles, but do not live on separate levels. Instead they live together as companions and coworkers for the glory of God,... Continue Reading
No Mere Exemplar: Christ as the Object of Christian Faith in Chapter 5 of Christianity and Liberalism (Part 1)
The Jesus revered by liberalism is an altogether different figure than the Jesus of the true Christian faith.
The true joy of embracing the truth far exceeds the comfort derived from the accolades of men, both in this age and in the age to come. It is for this reason that Machen spoke, taught, and wrote with such clarity in defense of orthodoxy for the love and glory of Jesus, the only legitimate... Continue Reading
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