Digital Discipleship for Your Children, Part I
Prepare and shape your children to have Christian imaginations amidst the digital deluge.
Technology is here to stay, and can be harnessed helpfully. We can worship, work, and play as worshippers and image-bearers without a total ban on screens or online access. But such spiritual success will only come with some vigorous cultivation. A little over eleven years ago, I published Save Them From Secularism. I wanted... Continue Reading
Providence and Presidents
The attempted assassination of President Trump raises the deepest of all questions.
Why? Because the Christian faith underlines the two realities of divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Both are absolutely necessary to Biblical Christianity, and both are absolutely necessary to the Christian worldview in every respect. But though both are necessary, they are not equal. Human responsibility is real, but it exists only within the transcendent reality... Continue Reading
Trusting God’s Providence: Reflections on Attempted Assassination of President Trump
The attempted assassination of President Trump is a very real reminder of this present darkness and how even evil and darkness cannot circumvent God’s providence.
God’s will always prevails regardless of any evil intentions. Throughout history, God’s providence has been evident in both the triumphs and the tribulations of His people. Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers, only to rise to power in Egypt and save many lives. In the natural world—a rise from the prison to the... Continue Reading
On Cognitive Decline
Cognitive decline isn’t something to mock, it’s something to mourn.
First and foremost, Joe Biden is a person made in the image of God. He’s likely battling fear, pride, and a swirl of other emotions. My prayer is that he will find his rest in Christ. And that those on the right and left will restrain from dehumanizing him–either by propping him up because of... Continue Reading
The Fall of Pride
Support for same-sex marriage is declining among young Americans.
If Pride were being challenged only by a diminished, if persistent, religious right, then its recent setbacks could be dismissed as temporary. But in fact the challenges are more wide-ranging. Pride is now criticized not only by conservative Christians, but by progressive activists who make a claim on its deepest meaning. Long associated with youth... Continue Reading
A&W Church
The American Church has not Resisted Consumerism
A church that is hospitable and yet confident of its own identity and tradition is naturally attractive without trying to be. But even if it was not pleasing to degenerates, since when did the marketability of the “gospel” to the lost become the litmus test for faithfulness? The fact that we have conceived of the... Continue Reading
AI and the Tower of Babel
Machines cannot become humans and humans cannot become God.
Modern technology has always faced a certain Godlike aspiration from some of its more arrogant zealots, as even leading industrialists in the pre-digital era fancied themselves miniature deities on occasion. The AI moment is an odd twist on this Babel-like idolatrous tendency. The subject of artificial intelligence has become a national obsession in the... Continue Reading
Does the PCA Have a Position on If Adam Had a Belly Button?
The PCA has a measure of diversity and latitude at its discretion over certain elements of the issue of Creation, it is always important to review the limits of that discretion that we might glorify God.
The AIC Report wishes to exclude is any idea that kinds become other kinds. While there is certainly variation that happens within a kind of animal (as birds or dog breeds and other examples of speciation illustrate), the problematic issue is macro-evolution’s teaching that a kind can become another kind. Hence, when we read that... Continue Reading
Joe Biden: Is Being Old Now a Joke?
Decline often comes slowly but we can see and feel it. However, our pride sometimes prevents us from recognizing this fact.
The Bible is very clear that the elderly are due respect. “You shall rise up before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the Lord” (Lev. 19:32). Respect for aged parents is the way we give respect to God himself. It’s probably more telling than worship on Sunday... Continue Reading
“Gender-Affirming Care” Is Not a Right
The Supreme Court will decide if states can regulate transgender medical interventions for minors.
The Biden administration and some parents of the children who wish to continue their gender transition are making a bold claim: that the U.S. Constitution prohibits the states of Tennessee and Kentucky from regulating medical practice—on children—in an area of uncertain science. With the Supreme Court’s annual term reaching an end, and so many... Continue Reading