In 21st century Christian ministry, appearance and self-promotion often deliver big time ministry opportunities. But, in all of Christian history, character has been king for people of God. Character is built in the quiet minutes spent in prayer and reading of God’s word. Character is built in hours pouring over Scripture in the pastor’s study.... Continue Reading

This moral anarchy is socially unsustainable,  so there are all sorts of ad hoc efforts to establish a shared framework for how to understand and respond to sin. The sudden prominence of ideological projects such as critical race theory and intersectional analysis is in large part due to them offering such a framework to a... Continue Reading

God’s people remain levelheaded in all circumstances. We do not allow ourselves to get all worked up just because the world is doing what the world does. The world’s going to be illogical, irrational, and sometimes incapable of civil discourse. We expect that of people in darkness. Because they can’t see clearly, they bump into... Continue Reading

God’s concern with biblical justice, as portrayed in the Minor Prophets, is primarily seen in terms of His covenant with Israel. Any treatment of our current social milieu that doesn’t place things squarely within this interpretive lens is dangerously myopic, at best. The point being: social justicians tend to place a heavy emphasis on righting... Continue Reading

Weak preaching on the wrath of God equals weak preaching on the on the cross of Christ, and weak preaching of the cross leaves the convicted sinner wondering if he can find salvation. I walked out of that gathering with joy in my heart. God had lifted my head through his word. I knew what... Continue Reading

In a totalitarian society, math is the last refuge of irresistible reality. When we find thinking like Krylenko’s not only in our history and English classrooms (wherein ideology can be easily adapted to the subject material) but in math class as well, we have reason to recoil at just how far and how deep the... Continue Reading

While the term “progressivism” sounds like something to describe modern, secular intellectual and political movements, it actually has its roots more than two hundred years ago in the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham. Anyone who has taken a course in history of economic thought is well familiar with Bentham, who influenced the English economists from Thomas... Continue Reading

So why does God seem to prefer to work through a remnant? There are various reasons for this. One is simply to show that it is God, and not mere human strength or power or might that gains the victory. As Zechariah 4:6 famously says, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not... Continue Reading

The parent who spares the rod does not only ruin the child, but also ruins a future relationship with the child. The parent who spares the rod hates his son, but he also hates himself. He denies his son the blessing of learning to submit and obey and he denies himself the blessing of a... Continue Reading

Sin has brought all kinds of misery into the world, and Jesus has come to deliver us from sin and, consequently, its miseries. Furthermore, Jesus performed this sign on the Sabbath to challenge prevailing religious notions of rest. It is neither quietist inactivity nor ritualistic drudgery, but peace and empowerment. Jesus comes to bring rest.... Continue Reading