Peter Leithart put it this way when discussing baptism and union with Christ in a blog post called “Infant Baptism” (Aug. 6, 2004): “Apostasy is possible.  It is possible to be united to Jesus Christ, receive His Spirit, and then fall from that gracious condition and back into the world (John 15; 1 Cor. 10;... Continue Reading

Right now parenting feels part biblical, part survival, and part insanity. But I have faith God will save my kids. Not because I’m doing a bang-up job as a parent, but because God is faithful. I believe God will use my feeble efforts to bring forth good fruit in my kids lives. I believe God... Continue Reading

Or, 2 Samuel 24 says God provoked David to number the people. But Chronicles says Satan did it. Ok, Chronicles was written probably a long time after Samuel. God did it in Samuel, Satan did it in Chronicles. Maybe the author of Chronicles didn’t know what was in the book of Samuel? No. God did... Continue Reading

But every once in awhile—maybe one day a week, probably on Sundays—I can’t help but hold out hope for traditional marriage. What if “being on the wrong side of history” is more of a progressive ideology than a foregone conclusion? What if our cultural development is not inexorably locked into either a pattern of secularization... Continue Reading

Since when is annual income used as a measure of “success?” Are only high income earners “successful?” So a football player is more successful than 3rd grade teacher? Have we become so base and utilitarian as a society that we now measure the good life by income? Are we that materialistic? Are we now that... Continue Reading

Here lies my critique of an expansive federal government—it is not too communal, but rather too individualistic, in that it seeks to meet people’s needs apart from these all-important networks of accountability and support. A dominant federal government wants you and me to look only to it, and not to our neighbors, to meet our... Continue Reading

What we need is an understanding of the supernatural that comes to us from the supernatural, from the Author of the supernatural, who reveals to us in His Word the content of the supernatural realm — so that our understanding of angels, or demons, or of spiritual beings comes from God’s self-revelation …. without the... Continue Reading

I believe in heaven, and I believe Jesus will return.  I believe in the necessity of people to see beyond the temporal and live for the eternal and to place their hope in things above because death is real and life is fleeting.  Yet I also believe God made human life the arena of importance,... Continue Reading

The huge green garbage truck was coming down the street right on schedule.  As the truck slowed to a stop, the worker jumped off and easily threw my garbage into the truck’s giant open bin. My garbage is gone! It can’t be retrieved. “Can I really rid myself of my mental garbage as easily as... Continue Reading

As psychological sexual identity comes to define who individuals are in the most basic sense, then everything else—from society’s moral norms to our physical bodies—has the potential of becoming simply so much external tyranny to be overthrown or turned into plastic, something to be escaped, ignored, or remade in accordance with individual whims.   In... Continue Reading