When it comes to social media, we seem to be taking on all the qualities of the double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. We are blown about by every thought, desire, opinion, and news story, even if it is completely (and quite obviously) fake. It isn’t enough for social media users to shout at... Continue Reading

Thinking of prayer, the mariner prayed because he was in trouble. Like the mariner, we pray to ask God to deliver us from misery and difficulty. You see people praying like this all through the Bible. People pray because they’re needy.  Another reason people pray is to praise God. That’s also super biblical. Why else... Continue Reading

If we want to get traction with God, if we want to grow in his grace, if we want to go further with Christ than we’ve ever gone before, here’s what we must do. We must humble ourselves as his beloved children who know his purposes toward us are good. We must receive his word.... Continue Reading

Nothing that happens in the world changes who God is. This is important, because if God were subject to regular change, he could not be an anchor that holds fast in the storms of life. If God were subject to regular change, we could not be confident in our eternal salvation because, God could just... Continue Reading

With a renewed mind, we can hope to develop a spiritual “sixth sense” that alerts us when something doesn’t feel right. Now, this feeling is not the Word of God and it isn’t infallible. There are times when something doesn’t feel right because I ate too many tacos. But, when we have immersed ourselves in God’s... Continue Reading

Say a man draws a portrait of a face with a hilariously large nose, and you critique him for doing so. It will do you no good to pull out a book titled “list of body parts found on the face” because “nose” surely will be there. The painter may even have memorized the chapter... Continue Reading

This truth about the human person, the subject and object of the laws, is not the kind of subject that comes into sight when conservatives turn their minds to “jurisprudence.” Yet for James Wilson among the Founders, this truth was the anchoring truth of the law. He thought it fitting to touch on this truth... Continue Reading

Search engine companies such as Google have claimed that such SEME is not possible, and they seek to operate with transparency for the processes that inform their search engine algorithms. The chances are high that search engine companies do their best to operate in a fair and transparent manner. Nevertheless, this doesn’t preclude or eliminate... Continue Reading

We all insist that we want to make our sermons accessible and yet, to listen to a lot of them, I’m not sure we mean the same thing when we use that word. Of course, accessibility (to some degree) is in the eye of the beholder. But I can benchmark accessibility by certain folk in... Continue Reading

As Christians, we need to look forward to the prospect of the new creation, when true paradise will be restored. The Bible provides us with a ‘holiday brochure’ vision of the glory to come in the book of Revelation, which makes us long to be there, and enables us to endure life in the fallen... Continue Reading