How Did this Happen? Why Same-Sex Marriage Makes Sense to So Many People Today
Same-sex marriage is not an idea that emerged from a vacuum. The project of normalizing homosexuality has deep roots and ideological momentum. The elites, the entertainment culture, the news media, and the educational establishment celebrate all three of these ideas as central to the modern experience and as ideological propulsion into a better future. Why... Continue Reading
Am I Desiring God Enough? Are You?
I find this hard to understand since it sounds like worship is about God but then I read this [from John Piper} and start to wonder if I am experiencing God’s glory. And if I am not, then I am in trouble because I am not sufficiently interested in God’s glory. But how can I... Continue Reading
Change: That Other Four-Letter Word
In the case of a local church, resistance comes because the church’s values were not changed before the influencers or leaders introduced or implemented change. If all these things have been addressed or even carefully attended to, it could come down to the basic fact that some will dig into their trenches and make a... Continue Reading
So You Are Thinking of Going to Seminary? Nine Important Questions To Answer
Not every student can be the star student. Not every student can be the guitar hero. Not every student can be the guy with experience in 15 countries who speaks 4 languages. That’s ok. Be yourself. Beware of pride, unhealthy competition, and jealousy. Say with Paul, by the grace of God I am what I... Continue Reading
What the Puberty Talk Can Teach Us About Discipleship
Why don’t our older women tell twenty-something young brides about the kind of isolation that can come with small children in the house? Why don’t our older men prepare our thirtysomethings for the testosterone drop that often prompts what we call a “midlife crisis”? A friend of mine is about to take his son on... Continue Reading
Too missional for abortion?
Christian withdrawal from politics can inadvertently undermine the justice work of the church by not having a voting presence to maintain religious liberties for Christians to do what they are called to do. …if New York’s Christians are not encouraged to get involved in the politics of religious liberty, people are going to die, literally.... Continue Reading
Jim Wallis and the Dangers of Heresy – asking the wrong question
A coalition of liberal Christian leaders — including Jim Wallis, Shane Claiborne, Ron Sider, Joel C. Hunter, and Tony Campolo — took out a full-page ad that asks “What would Jesus cut?” in Monday’s edition of Politico. Now most of the ad is non-offensive. It argues that Christianity tells us that the moral test of... Continue Reading
Who’s Bashing Whom? – Gay “Marriage” and Civil Discourse
Now let me be plain. Should marriage be reserved for one man and one woman? Yes. Is saying so publicly an act of hate? No. Will I and hundreds of thousands of others continue to press the point and to defend traditional marriage? Yes, we will. And as God gives us the strength, we will... Continue Reading
Pain is Inevitable
God has demonstrated to us in Jesus that he values pain for what it accomplishes. By his stripes we are healed. His suffering enables us who believe to become the children of God, to have complete and total forgiveness of our sins, and to live for eternity with God in the new heavens and the... Continue Reading
On Liturgical Gnats and Theological Camels
It seems that, for some, a concern for evangelism and biblical authority are not such good things when they result in worship that is less than tasteful. In short, is the real problem for some conservative Reformed champions of “traditional worship” that a lot of evangelical worship is, by upper-middle-class standards, a bit tacky? I... Continue Reading