The Conversion Therapy Bill Threatens Not Only Journalists and a Free Media but Also the Very Foundation of Democracy
We will not feel the full force of this draconian legislation until it takes effect in twelve months’ time.
With the implementation of this legislation, the empirical reality of scientific research is made null and void. It affects everything from the use of language (is it ‘they’, ‘she’ or something else?), the stifling of medical research and the outlawing of a biological worldview. Ultimately though, the legislation is inherently contradictory. A few years... Continue Reading
A Perfect Place for Imperfect People
The church is a hospital for sinners, a refuge for the broken, and a shelter for the oppressed and outcast.
How do you invite people to church? Try being honest. Tell the truth. Churches are filled with imperfect people trying to live into God’s love and grace and to proclaim it to a lost and dying world. Churches are filled with people who have been delivered from sin, addictions, pain, and hopelessness. In other words,... Continue Reading
One Another Texts: The Manner & the Means
The command to be devoted to one another is a declaration of a state of being, not a verbal process.
We are to show mutual esteem for one another. This is not accomplished by means of lip service or saccharine sentiment. Instead, it is fulfilled with honor. Paul here paints a picture of two Christians who are not only seeking to honor the other Christians in their lives, but who are actively competing to see... Continue Reading
To Those Who are Frustrated with the Church
You will be more at home in the presence of Christ, as a believer, fully redeemed in heaven... than at any time and any place you ever have been in your entire life in this world.
You may come to church and say, “I’m not so sure that I’m like other people here.” Then I would respond, “That is exactly why you are needed there.” God created you as a one-of-a-kind. He redeems what he created. What He has placed in believers by creation, He has now redeemed for the good... Continue Reading
What It Means for a Jesus-Follower to “Be This Guy”
Stand with Jesus, against them all, to the glory of God for the sake of the vulnerable.
That’s what it means to “be this guy”. It’s not about fighting for my own perceived rights, it’s not about fighting against one political party whilst bedding another. Christians must stand against every corrupt system and never be co-opted to party. Ever. I’ve seen this meme pop up a few times. It’s usually in the context... Continue Reading
Is Your Doctrine of the Trinity Novel?
Listen to the living voices of the dead. If we do, we might just rediscover something intimate, immensely old.
C.S. Lewis once lamented that “a great many of the ideas about God which trotted out as novelties today are simply the ones which real Theologians tried centuries ago and rejected.” Today, that trotting continues. It is now up to you to decide whether or not the church going forward will continue that trotting or... Continue Reading
On Aging Well
When our eyes are fixed on that beautiful country God promises to all who trust in him, age cannot deter us from radical joy.
The older, wiser Christians in my life are eager to see the world transformed by the redemptive power of the gospel. For them, the words of Jesus are not simply greeting card words, but rather, marching orders. It’s so refreshing to have friends in their seventies who are willing to start new things in an... Continue Reading
Do We Worship a Dead God or a Living God (A Few Words on Cosmic Conversations)
We enter into the divine discussion and interrupt the flow of the cosmic conversation only by the intercession of another.
My God died, but my God is not dead. My God was laid to rest, but he is earnestly at work. We all are standing outside the cosmic conversation, and in ourselves we have no hope of being heard in that divine discourse. Thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that we have a friendly voice who... Continue Reading
My Favorite Benediction
Take comfort in the one who calls you, the one who is faithful, the one who himself will surely prepare you for heaven.
Paul writes that God is the one who calls them. He is the originator of their faith, bringing them out of darkness (1 Peter 2:9). And this same God who calls is faithful. He is sturdy and sure and unwavering. We do not have to guess whether he will continue to keep his promises—he will love... Continue Reading
The Most Lavish Promise of God? Immeasurable Joy in the Ages to Come
Jesus welcomes us not simply into a happy heaven but into the very experience of his own happiness.
The perfected theater of creation will be glorious, radiant with God. But the drama — the human experience of God in Christ — not the theater, will be foremost in magnifying the God of all-pervasive providence. And the unparalleled beauty and worth of the Lamb who was slain will be the main song of eternity.... Continue Reading
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