When we shine as lights and tell others that the kingdom of God has come, the darkness is pushed back. The work is difficult and requires courage that only God can give, but Christians always experience joy when they faithfully testify for Jesus. David did not slay Goliath by sitting back with the bread and... Continue Reading

So how do we gain this personal, experiential knowledge of Christ? This is the work of the Third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. The way we experience this work and this knowledge in our lives comes through faith and obedience. As we trust in Christ more and more and grow in obedience to His revealed... Continue Reading

“Christ, in all His saving grace and personal attractiveness, is offered to us in the gospel. The Father brings to His Son the bride He has prepared for Him, and asks both parties if they will have each other—the Savior if He will have sinners to be His; sinners if they will embrace the Lord... Continue Reading

“Sometimes we know exactly why we are in a trial. We knew we were sinning all along, and we were just hoping it wouldn’t catch up with us. It’s just a matter of paying the consequences for our actions. But other times, we may be the victims. There may not be a particular offense that... Continue Reading

“Stunned, I could only assume that World Magazine had suddenly fallen into Rupert Murdoch’s hands, or that the highly-respected editorial team had been ousted in a Hollywood Reporter coup, or that I had missed some World-shattering online revelations in the week since I’d last read the magazine. When I started reading the report, the New York Times only... Continue Reading

“From a guy who has to fight every single day to have my heart moved by the gospel, hear my plea: don’t be content to just give your hearers a comprehensive tour guide through a passage, connect the dots to show the glory, grandeur and greatness of God in it so they can join you... Continue Reading

“All things belong to God. That would mean, ultimately, that stealing is taking that which God gave to another and making it our own. In other words, theft is a man-centered rebellion against God’s distribution of his possessions. This understanding makes the offense a bit weightier and in need of our attention.”   When we... Continue Reading

“A slippery slope argument is merely a claim that “A will lead to B” either as an inevitability, as an increased probability, or as a logical outcome. Slippery slope arguments are often misunderstood, and many people mistakenly think their use is always logically fallacious. As a general rule, if someone summarily dismisses a slippery slope... Continue Reading

Of all the arguments in favor of same-sex behavior, the cultural distance argument is the most foundational and the most common (at least among those for whom biblical authority is still important). Although the Mosaic Law and Paul’s letter to the Romans and the vice lists of the New Testament speak uniformly against same-sex behavior,... Continue Reading

Yet there seem no voices within the establishment itself asking whether recent problems are not so much to do with the failings of one man as they are to do with the culture of pampered unaccountability which the big beasts have cultivated.  One reason, of course, is that raising one’s voice on such matters is... Continue Reading