7 Marks of a Deeply Deadly Sin
Christian, evaluate your sin, and battle hard against it.
God graciously reveals your sin through his Word, through conscience, through other Christians, and through many other means. When he reveals your sin, he also prompts you to take action against it. If you continually reject his help and harden your heart against that sin, you are in a dangerous, dangerous state. Not all... Continue Reading
History: A Runaway Jury?
Invoking history in one’s support is, strictly speaking, a risky exercise
The direction and verdict of history amount to the same thing: an ethical stance determined by public opinion and prevailing tastes. What is so worrying, of course, is that ‘history’ can be wrong as easily as it can be right. Yes, there is the end of slavery, women’s suffrage, and the fall of the Iron... Continue Reading
Is the Reformation Over?
The theological gulf between Protestants and Catholics is still wide and in places very deep.
Should Catholics and Protestants treat each other decently and with respect? Of course. Will we labor side by side on important moral and social matters? Quite often. Can we find born again Christians worshiping in Catholic churches? No doubt. Are there still critical doctrinal issues which rightly divide Protestants and Catholics? Absolutely. We do neither... Continue Reading
David Gushee’s Gay-Switch, Biblical Scholarship, and Slanted Reporting
A response to David Gushee’s defection from the orthodox stance on homosexual practice
We have no right to short-circuit the work of God, who through the Spirit is in the business of transforming us into the image of his Son, by assuring people falsely that God does not regard this or that behavior as an egregious violation of the divine will. I do not fault Dr. Gushee for... Continue Reading
The Dangers Of Homicide At Home
We know murder is not right, but we need to learn that Jesus taught a broader meaning of the sixth commandment in the Sermon on the Mount
Jesus expands our understanding of murder. He puts anger and murder in the same category: a failure to rule over your emotions and passions. In Matthew 5:21-24, Jesus uses strong language to warn those who neglect this commandment with the “fire of hell.” I wonder if we take that warning seriously enough to help our... Continue Reading
A Matter Of Substance
For an evangelical ethicist to change his mind and embrace the LGBT cause as currently constituted is thus a complicated and highly significant matter which goes well beyond hermeneutics
“According to Merritt’s account, in Gushee’s case it is also driven by a significant degree of personal experience and emotion, especially an understandable degree of sympathy with and concern for a sister struggling with same sex attraction. Further, it must arguably involve the acceptance of sexual preference as a — perhaps even the — definitive... Continue Reading
Urban Synagogue: Targeting Men, Taking Back Urban Communities
Are our ministry programs focused on the wrong groups? On the importance of engaging men in the "urban synagogue"
“In urban communities, there are also many indigenous fathers and stepfathers who have been there for their kids from the first day, and there are many hardworking men who own small businesses and love to work. Despite the reputation of murder, crime, and extreme selfishness, there are many men in urban communities who maintain a... Continue Reading
The American Jeremiad: A Bit of Perspective On The Rhetoric of Decline
There is a way of responding to declension—real or imagined—that only compounds the problem
“I want to introduce you to the American jeremiad. That’s the term scholars have given to what one has called “a mainstream and deeply American way of thinking about the nation’s past, present, and future.”[1] The term comes from the prophet Jeremiah, who catalogued Israel’s fall from fidelity and warned of the horrible judgments to... Continue Reading
How Christians Will Know They Can Join Hands With Rome
Among other things, in order for Rome to be Christian, it must tear down its system of salvation and rebuild it after that of Scripture.
Rome sees the Reformation as a fracture of the true church, not a healing of it. For the aforementioned reasons, Rome would need to adjust its perspective on the Reformation towards being one of the best things to happen to Christ’s church. In doing so, it would need to renounce much of the doctrine affirmed in... Continue Reading
Evil, Evangelism And Halloween…
Don’t have an opinion about Halloween? Learn and think about it. And then get one.
The easiest way to be conformed to the world is by letting everything it whispers wash over us without any thought or care. If we never think about the importance of having a biblical worldview, we will inevitably begin to reflect the world and culture around us. If we want to live unthoughtfully, we will... Continue Reading
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