The pro-life movement on Capitol Hill will languish as long as its leaders on and off the hill continue to defer to a leadership far more interested in saying “we passed spending bills” than they are about what’s in them. It will remain dormant as long as we continue to fall for and accept insincere... Continue Reading

Our work is part of our calling from God–along with our families, our church life, and our citizenship–where He places us to love and serve our neighbors, as He works through us in our everyday lives. As such, all vocations are equally valuable in the eyes of God.   Geoffrey Owens is a Shakespearean actor, but... Continue Reading

“We understand God’s commitment to dwell among his people, and we should commit ourselves to emulate him and contentedly dwell among our own. Does this condemn travel, promote ethnocentrism, or stand against missions? No.”   One of the most beautiful statements of contentment came from the mouth of the Shunammite woman. You remember the story... Continue Reading

Here’s the problem in using such labels: The Church will find itself aligning with the culture’s mantra that personal experiences and desires are identifying and determinative (core identities), even when experienced when one is young and still in the process of forming one’s identity and view of life. What hope will we give to young... Continue Reading

Reading Peterson reminded me of one of the great losses of Protestant theology for which we are now paying a high price: an emphasis on the virtues, or character traits. Protestant ethics have, in practice, made the matter of character—of intrinsic personal virtues—something of secondary importance. This is not a necessary consequence of the foundational... Continue Reading

This is the question that we who wish to evangelize the LGBT community must answer: To what are we calling people? If we know what we are calling people from but do not have anything to call people to, we are only sharing half of the gospel.   Some believe that we live in the... Continue Reading

Whether we call it social justice, God’s work, or something else, there are people on the left, right, and everywhere in-between working hard to study and solve the ills that infect our society, elevate humanity, fight injustice, and help those in need. These individuals often receive little or no public recognition. But there are also... Continue Reading

Evangelical social justice warriors are trying to deal with the issues raised by modern culture wars.  Social justice warriors perceive that something has been missing in the Evangelical and Reformed churches.  The church got the gospel right, but something was deficient.  That which was missing was the application of the Law of God to all... Continue Reading

“Here’s the point: elite athletes don’t live disciplined lives because they think disciplined lives are virtuous. They aren’t stoics; they’re hedonists — pleasure-seekers. They live disciplined lives and endure all kinds of self-denial because they want the pleasures of the prize.”   LeBron James is the most dominant player in the NBA today, and some... Continue Reading

“In the evening before bedtime, we use the Gloria Patri, Doxology, and Trisagion for our routine songs, then we’ll finish with the Lord’s Prayer every night. If we have time we’ll also pray for other needs at that time and have our kids pray too, but sometimes we’re just in survival mode. Being a parent... Continue Reading