Making Fake “Jesus(es)”
December becomes the season when Christians feel most devoted to Jesus while surrounding themselves with depictions of Him that He Himself would not recognize.
Come to the Christ who is. Bow before the Lord who cannot be resized to fit your preferences.Let Scripture straighten the contours where your imagination has bent Him. Let His Word reintroduce you to the living Christ. And as you behold Him—the real Him—let every false Jesus perish in the brightness of His glory. ... Continue Reading
Hermeneutics 101: The First Step in Bible Interpretation
It is a priority for Christians to know what the Bible says so we can obey it.
English translations represent a lot of hard work and expertise on the part of the translation teams, but no English translation is perfect. Hence it is imperative that we first consider proper translation before making an interpretation and application. Jesus told his followers that they do not live on bread alone, but “on every... Continue Reading
Holiness Is Not Legalism
Why the Church Hates the Very Thing God Commands
For those who belong to Him, holiness is not a burden. It is a promise. It is the fruit of adoption. It is the evidence of His Spirit at work. It is the path to joy, the shape of freedom, and the doorway to deeper fellowship with God. Recovering the Beauty and Reward of... Continue Reading
Mamdani’s Rotten Hope for the Big Apple & America
Christians should recognize socialism for what it is: a system that capitalizes on envy to promote policies that harm people.
Mamdani asserts that “Trump [is] padding the pockets of the rich at the expense of working people.” He promotes the common socialist assertion that the free market leads to the rich getting richer, and the poor necessarily getting poorer. Yet, as the saying goes, a rising tide lifts all boats. A truly free market enriches the rich, and... Continue Reading
When Race Becomes Religion: How the Church Is Trading Redemption for Resentment
A growing movement is preaching deliverance through color instead of the cross. Here's why it's collapsing under its own weight.
Christ didn’t die to make us more Black or more White. He died to make us new. So let’s stop preaching color and start proclaiming Christ. Let’s trade resentment for redemption and grievance for grace. Because the only banner worth waving isn’t black or white. It’s blood-red. Every few weeks, someone sends me a... Continue Reading
Parents: Keep God’s Truth on Speed Dial
Your dear child needs to see you stand with the truth.
Know that you are loving your child in the best way possible by modeling and sticking to the truth of God’s Word…and to Truth, the Lord Jesus himself (John 14:6)….By doing so, you will demonstrate that you love them too much to give in to what their Creator says is destructive to them. Truth... Continue Reading
Perspectives for Those Experiencing Heartache Over a Family Member’s Choices
This is not the end of the story, and His blood-bought promise is to make all things right forever.
The day hasn’t yet come when God will “wipe away every tear.” But it will come. In the meantime, God can give us hope for a future where He will heal all our hurts and where our laughter and joy will be as unending as His. What follows is an edited version of an... Continue Reading
In Defense of Christ’s Baptist Sheep and in Rebuke of the Scribes Who Have Not Upheld Their Cause
Shame on Credo and Presbyterion for commending contemporary ecumenism under guise of wholesome catholicity, and for commending the failed mainline program to those who resist it.
And spare me the hypocrisy of ‘you Baptists reduce the sacraments to symbols because of an unknowing, secularistic rationalism’ when Newman and her mainline friends reduce liturgy to a mere symbol for so-called ‘social justice’ and other bits of secular politics, and when their communions are precisely the ones that went all in for philosophy... Continue Reading
A Resurrection Like No Other
Jesus lives, and so can we.
Christ’s resurrection was more than a mere resuscitation of life. Jesus raised several persons from the dead (e.g., a young man, Jairus’s daughter, Lazarus). But none of these “resurrections” marked the turning point in history. Easter Sunday marks the movement from humiliation to exaltation in the work of Christ. During his earthly ministry, Jesus... Continue Reading
Men in the Image of Women and Women in the Image of Men
God has created men and women to be complementary instead of identical—to be gloriously and wondrously distinct.
We do best to accept God’s design and to embrace it with confidence rather than reject it with frustration. As Christians, we speak often of the reality and the goodness of God’s design. We believe this in theory. But the differences between men and women—differences that were deliberately designed by God—allow us to practice what... Continue Reading
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