Look, I commend Giboney for admitting the “urban Christian” error of subordinating religious convictions in favor of racial pride, fidelity and succumbing to the novelty of a non-white president. Blacks supported “one of their own,” chronically defending the indefensible by supporting Obama to their shame as Christians and blacks, in that order.   Recently, Justin... Continue Reading

The attaining of assurance faces many difficulties. When a person feels the guilt of his sins, he is quick to look upon God as an enemy and an avenger. Our hearts are deceitful. We are prone to neglect our walk with God and be spiritually careless, but assurance is preserved by a continual exercise of... Continue Reading

If the Christian sexual ethic has become less plausible in American churches today, if churches are less and less willing to call their followers to the path of radical discipleship, indeed, if the celibate life of the Christ to whom we are supposed to be conformed has itself become inconceivable to us, then that is... Continue Reading

For us who have trusted in Jesus Christ, God’s kindness and mercy pursue us like some kind of heavenly bounty hunter. His blessings are going to find us. God will not be thwarted. He will never deviate or desist from persistently blessing us. He is stubborn in his goodness. God even designs the seemingly “bad” things that... Continue Reading

It is not enough, therefore, that the adherents of the Federal Vision speak about grace. What do they mean by the use of the word grace? Is it the internal, subjective, efficacious grace bestowed by the Holy Spirit in regeneration? Or is it external, objective, and non-efficacious “grace” bestowed by water baptism? These are questions... Continue Reading

God has chosen to populate His world and His church with different kinds of people. Each of us has our own unique personality, temperament, gifts, abilities, weaknesses and vulnerabilities. And when it comes to these kinds of issues, we cannot simply correct our weaknesses. The things which make us so good in our areas of... Continue Reading

All of which is to say that the bigger problem we face is not modernity but the wickedness of the human heart. That is a circumstance that afflicted medieval Europe as much as the Jazz Age. Critics of modernity have good grounds to be concerned about disregard for the natural world, what social media does... Continue Reading

In this worldview, the group that can prove the greatest source of contemporary oppression becomes the group with greatest authority. This ideology doesn’t bode well for the future. Heller worries “the cracks in the American left are likely to grow—with more campaign arguments about who is the ‘true’ progressive, more shouting past one another, and... Continue Reading

After the spate of “Calvin against the Calvinists” articles, books, and chapters in the twentieth century, in which Puritans featured prominently, people started to question whether the later folks could really appeal to the great man as in some way foundational for their theology. The Calvinists had twisted and deformed the theology of the Genevan... Continue Reading

“While the terminology of theological liberalism has faded, the spirit of liberalism lives on. To give one ready example, the emerging church movement was little more than modern liberalism masquerading in postmodern clothing. And it is in this context that I first encountered it.”   I am now well into a series titled “Why I... Continue Reading