Shutting down the economy destroys personal and corporate shalom. Objectively, it entails the loss of employment, income, health insurance, savings, pensions, investments, property, and access to such basic necessities as food, water, electricity, medical care, and safe transportation. Subjectively, it leads to fear, loneliness, depression, alcohol and drug abuse, domestic violence, crime, and suicide. This... Continue Reading

An argument could be made that containment is easier in China because people there already habitually rely on the government to enforce widespread social measures. But the quick response from China’s citizenry can also be understood as a result of the country’s long history of maintaining a greater sense of community, or as Martin Jacques... Continue Reading

The center of this concrete reality is the local church. The universal church is present within each local expression of the church. There is no universal church without the concrete local church. The local church embodies the universal, and not the other way around. This is evident by the fact that there is no universal... Continue Reading

Our culture cannot normalize homosexuality and redefine marriage and family, which it has done in the last few years, without losing the good Creator’s humanizing notions of male and female, and of father and mother and of the natural family. Should this movement succeed, the destiny of our children and grandchildren will be life under... Continue Reading

God created man to work.  The primary command of God in the Garden was to multiply and subdue the earth.  Take away a man’s tools and you rob him of his joy in protecting and providing for his family and home.  Take away a man’s work and you take away his life.  Risking a productive... Continue Reading

So, there was nothing else I could do, but proceed to my bedroom: I determined as I knelt, through heavy sobs and tears, to refocus my grief and have my soul and mind converted to gratitude – maybe if I’d been more clued into the Psalter I might have done that sooner. What a debt... Continue Reading

“Home” has always had a special meaning for people; it was the place you generally slept; the place where you generally felt safe; the place where you could mostly be yourself. But now it has become something different. “Home” is no longer the place you leave to go out and conduct life. It is, instead,... Continue Reading

God-fearing churches take violence and oppression seriously. A God-fearing church takes church membership, personal accountability, and church discipline seriously, too, because these things are connected. An oppressed person’s best defense against true violence is membership in a Bible-believing church, one that practices both hospitality and church discipline, one that protects the sheep from the wolves... Continue Reading

It is not possible, he believes, to build a sustainable social order around a collection of desiring subjects—yet the strength of the ideologies of the 1960s is too great to permit an alternative to emerge. For Europe, beset by a globalization that threatens its coherence and independence from the world’s superpowers, the only answer is... Continue Reading

God has placed us in this time and place for a purpose. In these tumultuous times, has our primary biblical calling and mission changed? No, it hasn’t. Our charge from the beginning has been to be more like Jesus each day. We have always been chosen to personally impact those around us for Christ, but... Continue Reading