Six Ways to Look Godly While Not Growing In Your Faith In 2013
Effective ways to fail
It’s just so much easier (and more pleasant) to work out how other people should change than it is to unsettle our own hearts and lives. If you really want to listen to sermons in an apparently godly but non-growing way, pick one encouragement from the sermon which will make no difference to your life,... Continue Reading
Proust, Paglia and Exit Wounds
Thoughts on Ordain a Lady, feminists, and empowerment through casual sex
At some moment in the past, feminists decided that objectified sex and objectified sexuality, far from being degrading to women, were their most potent means of empowerment. Part of me thinks that that may be the greatest confidence trick which men ever played on women. I am sure if the average fourteen year old boy... Continue Reading
What Is a Family Integrated Church?
Rejecting activities which separate children from parents
Is your Christian education based upon evolutionary and secular thinking? It is if your church practices the usual age-segregated Sunday school according to a new church movement. The family-integrated church movement, primarily within the homeschooling community, is a self-conscious challenge to classic Christian nurture. It has already affected some Reformed churches. But what exactly is... Continue Reading
The Shadow of a Godly Pastor: Oh How We Need An Anointed Ministry Today!
Our people need to sit beneath the shadow of a godly pastor
Have we in our quest for theological precision ignored our desire for a personal encounter with the living God? Have we focused on critiquing the world around us instead of seeking the Word from above us? If we are His, have we stopped seeking to keep in step with the One within us? Have we... Continue Reading
Raising the Bar on Joy
Joy is our animated response to the breakthrough of heaven into earth
We settle for too little. It is so easy to set the bar at mere obedience. Do right. Do right in the midst of temptations. Do right in suffering. These are certainly good, but when we know Jesus, we know there is more—we know there is joy. Joy lives in public Joy is our animated... Continue Reading
How To Help Someone NOT Change
Anger never produces any change at the heart level
So, how can you help them NOT change? How can you help them become hardened in their sins? It’s really rather easy. Two words: get angry. That’s all there is to it! If you want to help a person not change, get angry every time they sin. Blow up. Be volcanic. Explosive even. Dear... Continue Reading
Giving Up on Religion?
True religion establishes genuine relationships and healthy community
“I gave up my religion around the time I went to college, and tried not to think too much about it.” Many of us distance ourselves from religion. ‘Religion’ is a word that has become associated with repressive dogma, guilt-ridden duty, and all too common hypocrisy. It is not unusual to hear: “I’m into relationship,... Continue Reading
Why African Americans Need ‘Big God’ Theology
Only a "Big God" theology is sufficient to break individuals and communities from the grip of big problems, pointing them to Christ as their Savior
I do not advocate any form of theological imperialism—indeed Reformed theology has much to learn from the black church tradition. My passion is simply to see African Americans reshaped by a bigger vision of God. Only the God-centered gospel of the Bible has the power to renew individuals and whole communities. Reformed theology helps us... Continue Reading
Slouching From Gomorrah: Remembering Robert Bork
Robert Bork was a man ahead of his time
Bork noted that most of these evangelicals and Catholics send their kids to colleges dominated by these secular liberals, where all the ideals and values the youngsters learned at home and at their churches is rapidly undermined in four years—with the faithful parents unwittingly paying for the undermining. In short order, these conservative Christians support... Continue Reading
Fellowship in the Woodlands
None of our problems would be as bad if the church was still shaping the culture instead of merely responding to it
The culture teaches moral relativism. The church needs to correct it….In our holiest moments, we recognize that sound theology must defer to the secular doctrine of feminism. Some doctrines are holier than others. And relativism is culturally relevant even when it isn’t logically consistent. Most of America’s problems are cultural. Even our economic... Continue Reading
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