But real faith has content. And so Paul speaks of the ministers Christ has gifted the church with so that we can attain unity in God’s Word, acquiring true knowledge of the faith, maturing in Christ….Why are there so many who claim to be Christians who refuse to take a stand for truth? Perhaps it... Continue Reading

William Cowper, born in 1731 one hundred years after the death of his ancestor and fellow poet John Donne, was one of those with great needs, special needs. He was one of the insane. Bouts of insanity, even attempted suicides, odd behavior, dark depression, at times feeling himself a castaway, “whelmed in deeper gulfs” than... Continue Reading

And like Noah, we will be remembered for what we did in our lifetimes, and more importantly, who we were in our lifetimes. May it be said of us that we were blessed by God because we stood for righteousness and for the cause of Christ, and may it be said of us that we... Continue Reading

Gay marriage is untenable biblically; it is a capitulation to the culture; it is a caricature of real marriage. As Kenyan Anglican Archbishop Eliud Wabukala noted, marriage is under attack and the homosexual movement has become an ideology that attacks human identity as male and female created in the image of God. He also said... Continue Reading

Jenkin’s observations might be clever in a literature class, but is this the way the Allies want to handle Scripture? Apparently, the price of discovering ordinary matters in the Bible is worth the benefits that come with showing the gospel’s relevance.   Do the every-square-inchers ever worry that making the gospel relevant to all of... Continue Reading

More importantly, privileging Christian engagement with culture at whatever serves for that blink of history’s eye as the “center of the universe” seems to have little biblical warrant. I suppose you could build such an elitist theology of cultural engagement around Paul’s conversation with the philosophers on the Areopagus or the apostles’ encounters with political... Continue Reading

Should The Church cater/pander to the reputed majority views of young people, i.e. the much mythologized Millennials, in pursuit of their allegiance? There’re ongoing insistent demands from liberal church voices that Christianity, especially the Evangelical world, will crumble unless key teachings at odds with purported Millennial preferences are amended or abandoned. The larger issue is... Continue Reading

In other words, as I was able to learn more about this man and his family, I discovered that all wasn’t what it should be for him to be an elder candidate. In fact, this particular family ended up creating a faction within the church that took a number of years to fix. Needless to... Continue Reading

The church seems to be wired to lay most if not all of its dysfunctions at the feet of the pastor. It makes sense. “The buck stops here” Harry Trueman famously claimed. Because of this, many pastors seem predisposed to believe that every failing in the church is somehow their fault. If the staff stages... Continue Reading

It is also troubling to hear that these girls are ”giving their virginity to their fathers to protect.” A father is there to protect more than just a girls virginity. A girl is more than just their sexuality. A father needs to protect her heart, her mind, her emotions, her time. He needs to keep her accountable... Continue Reading