Why Didn’t the New Testament Authors Use God’s Name? Part 3
The use of “Lord” for the divine name probably helped identify Jesus with the God of the Old Testament.
It’s plausible that the New Testament authors upheld the tradition of kurios as a centuries-old tradition that people were accustomed to using to refer to God in a personal way. Since they were trying to communicate clearly to a wide range of listeners, some of whom didn’t speak Hebrew and were already familiar with calling the... Continue Reading
Don’t Conform: Going Along to Get Along Will Only Make Matters Worse
The Gospel is the antidote to the world’s dysfunction.
Conformity and a “go along to get along” mentality are one of the many reasons we find ourselves in this uneven and dysfunctional season of American life. Of course, it’s propelled by fallen man and sin, but if nobody steps up or speaks out, the abnormal begins to be seen as normal. It’s an... Continue Reading
Avoiding a Second Civil War
Culture is downstream from religion so in essence what we are witnessing today is a religious war.
Two competing religions are struggling in a battle against each other for control of our nation’s numerous institutions such as the civil government, the military, education, and even the church. Whatever labels you use for the two sides of the conflict, either wokeism versus traditionalism, or Cultural Marxism versus Christianity, the clash between the two... Continue Reading
Russell Moore Loses His Religion
How did someone who climbed their way to the top of conservative Christianity find themselves on the fringes?
It is important to remember that three months before his departure, a Southern Baptist task force determined that Moore’s organization was “a source of significant distraction from the Great Commission work of Southern Baptists.” The report cited things like participating in the partially Soros-funded Evangelical Immigration Table, filing an amicus brief to support a mosque,... Continue Reading
Canada’s Suicidal Slide
What David Brooks Gets Right…and Wrong
The value of human life is not based on any extrinsic quality. Period. It’s instead based on the fact that humans are made in God’s image. We belong to Him, not to ourselves. This is ultimately why the slope from accepting some suicides to all suicides is so slippery. If it is true, as Richard Weaver famously put it,... Continue Reading
Love Keeps No Record of Rights
Love rejects all basis of comparison to simply love according to the second great commandment: “love your neighbor as yourself.”
The Christian is to keep no record of wrongs. Yet I find it every bit as important to keep no record of rights—of the right and good things we have done to others. And that’s because the accounting we are always tempted to keep is not merely of other people’s bad deeds but our own... Continue Reading
Progressive Legalism & Postmodern Chaos in the PCA
The postmodern ethos is alive and well, even in the PCA.
I know that legalism exists in a lot of forms. Self-Righteousness is insidious and must be repented of wherever it rears its head in every wing of the PCA. But this issue of loophole legalism and obfuscation in the use of language is insidious. While men are playing fast and loose with language the sheep... Continue Reading
Jesus’s View on Biblical Sexual Ethics Has Not Shifted
Your shift of position on the issue of homosexual practice is to a view that Jesus would have treated as heretical.
Your change of position will not change God’s position. It will just lead to self-deception and deception of others. Face the fact that Jesus is the very last person in the world who would have given up a male-female prerequisite as foundational for sexual ethics. There was no more rigorous applier of the standard of... Continue Reading
COVID Wars: Shoddy Science and Medical Malpractice
Medicine and science have been massively abused over the past few years.
We are told to “follow the science”. What we have witnessed far too often over the past four years is “follow the money”. Be it corrupt politicians, Big Pharma, medicos with vested interests, or globalist bodies seeking to control us all, we have seen how quickly and easily science and medicine can be corrupted and... Continue Reading
Is Complementarianism Inherently Harmful?
God never commands something that does not lead to human flourishing.
This crisis partly calls for more theological and practical work that explains why Holy Scripture teaches a male-only episcopate. God does not act in arbitrary ways. A male-only episcopate is not a random or eclectic practice of the first century. Some deeper truth is at hand; some rational and explainable reason exists. God created the natural... Continue Reading
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