To accept Christianity, then, is to accept objective truth claims that carry the weight of other objective claims about reality. And, as with other objective claims about reality, there is a consequence for rejecting truth. There is a consequence for rejecting reality. Paul’s assertion that there is only one gospel was well warranted. It is... Continue Reading

The faithfulness of God to do what he said he would do, and be who he said he would be, is the great source of deep and durable hope. “I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised,” Romans 15:8–9 says, “to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,... Continue Reading

Being fully God he of course is sinless and perfectly obedient. So how ever we are to understand these verses, we need to also consider the humanity of Christ, not just his deity. Related to this, we know from elsewhere in Hebrews (let alone the rest of the New Testament) that Jesus is assumed to... Continue Reading

I am not endorsing everyone who says anything negative about the S.B.C. But I am saying there are some godly voices out there like Tom Ascol, Tom Buck, Jared Longshore, and Gabe Hughes (so many more names I could mention) who love the convention so much, and those within the convention so much, that they... Continue Reading

Be careful what drives your emotion and in which direction! In pop-Christianity, people claim they are elevating God; they just functionally believe that is done by emoting passionately during the service to “give everything to Him.” Me-centered Christianity is very expressive, but we must take great care as to the content of the worship.  ... Continue Reading

Perhaps you read all of this and think the following: The Chinese Communist Party is terrible. We hear horrific stories out of China all the time. About how the CCP is carrying out a genocide against Uyghur Muslims and how it is staging videos of people pretending to be happy Uyghurs in an attempt to conceal the... Continue Reading

So, when Jesus was put to death on a cross that Friday morning, to all the Jews who were watching, he was seen as accursed. And it wasn’t just that there was chaos, confusion and disorder all around in the scene at Golgotha; but that smell of divine displeasure filled the air. It was a... Continue Reading

For too long perhaps we have been like the lepers outside Samaria waiting to see what will happen as our lives move ever nearer towards death. Through their example of rising up and pressing forward, let us remember that this is the life God has given us and let us live for the glory of... Continue Reading

In our Christian world of pretending, the honesty of this man’s anguish should be appreciated by us, not despised. He is struggling. His faith is being tried as never before. He hangs by a thread. He knows how frail and sinful he is. But ultimately, and more importantly, he knows who God is. He knows... Continue Reading

His sacrificial death on the cross atones for all the times you and I have failed to honor our parents and other lawful superiors; meanwhile, His perfect obedience to the Father is credited to us as if it were our own honoring of those over us. As a result of Christ’s obedience, God’s household has... Continue Reading