A vote for Trump is not a vote for telling it like it is, let alone a symbolic nod to a nobler honor code of times gone by. It’s casting your lot with what the worst of the honor impulse might look like if it were stripped of virtue, loaned a million dollars, and given... Continue Reading

Stanley went on to explain, he said, “There were thousands and thousands and thousands of Christians before there was a Bible.”  He then went on to say, “I would start with the resurrection of Jesus.”  Why is it that Andy Stanley seems to distance himself from the Bible?  Is it possible to present the resurrection... Continue Reading

Jesus responded in these ways because these people were sincere, even if they were sincerely ignorant, sincerely dumb. They were foolish, they were misinformed, they did not know things they ought to have known. But they were not being malevolent. He had room for rebuke, of course, but his rebukes were reserved for the religious... Continue Reading

Sadly, most of the women have no idea that they are crippling themselves as they fill themselves up with the words of anyone other than God. They do NOT have the discernment to accept the truth and reject the lies. How can they when the majority of their time is spent not in the Word,... Continue Reading

As the church, our mission is to preserve life, both physical and spiritual. We have to advocate for unborn babies, yes, but we also have to advocate for women and men whose souls are crying out against them. We have to preach the gospel of repentance and reconciliation to steer people away from the clinic,... Continue Reading

This isn’t a tempest in a tea pot; there’s a real issue with hominid theism. Here, one can make the claim that one believes in a kind of historical Adam with the unexamined implication that one means the Adam of scripture, the Adam described in the narrative of Genesis, while one believes almost nothing of... Continue Reading

“If adoption is justification, adoption’s distinctively celebrated splendor lacks any “justification.” Among other problems, it becomes impossible to entertain Puritan celebration of adoption’s personal and pastoral value.”   Those given the eyes of saving faith find boundless reasons to celebrate the gospel. Clear vision of the Savior evokes songs of praise. That the Righteous Judge... Continue Reading

“For Luther, the three most important principles of public communication were illustrate, illustrate, and illustrate. He encouraged preachers to use concrete images and narratives. He advised that, when preaching on abstract doctrine, the pastor find a narrative in Scripture that communicates that truth so as to communicate the abstract through the concrete.”   We do not... Continue Reading

“Friends, are you resting in the finished work of Jesus Christ for you? In the midst of your spiritual conflict or personal holy war, are you presently finding comfort in the Gospel? If you are like me, you need fresh reminders of the finished work of Jesus Christ.”   They were spiritually minded. They were ethical. They... Continue Reading

“Let’s be careful not to take these words in a crass literalistic way either, as if this is teaching some sort of health and wealth prosperity gospel. Jesus is not promising that if you leave your house for his sake you will come into ownership of 100 houses.”   I was teaching from Mark 10.23-31... Continue Reading