Do You Love Black People?
If you love black people, you should hate critical race theory. If you love critical race theory, you’ll be tempted to hate people, especially black people who hate critical race theory.
God loves black people as much as he loves everyone else. That’s why he rebukes black people just as much as he rebukes everyone else. Christ shows no partiality. We should be more like him, and less like critical race theorists. The Bible is just as sufficient for teaching you how to love black people... Continue Reading
How Will COVID Permanently Change Churches?
"I am recognizing the value of sacred space—of being able to say, ‘This space is set apart for God’s purposes in the heart of the city.’" - Treat
Certainly, 2020 has been different, Smith said. The pandemic affected more people for a longer period of time. And it’s not over yet. “Here’s what we know about trauma: the hard part comes later on,” Treat said. “If this season has been traumatic, the worst part is going to come out in the next couple... Continue Reading
Yes, Some Things Are Black and White
Forget the 99 shades of grey – we need to again affirm truth.
Sure, we recognize that while the Bible is completely true and without error, we are not. We are fallen and finite, so we need care and diligence as we seek to rightly understand and apply God’s truth. But we are not left in endless doubt and skepticism. The Holy Spirit has been given to every believer... Continue Reading
If Conversion Therapy is Banned, it is the Bible That Will be Silenced
I love the word "conversion." It's a great word explaining a great biblical concept. It's about new life, renewal, new beginnings, change and hope.
A time is coming soon when, unless we are prepared to ditch the teaching of Jesus and the Bible, and follow the teaching of the new orthodoxy, we will be breaking the law. Troublemakers who want to silence biblical teaching and practice will be cheered on from the sidelines by those like Chalke and Ozanne.... Continue Reading
It Seems Right to Me
As we continue to abandon standards of what is true and what is right, we end up doing whatever seems good at the time – no matter how bad such choices may actually be.
Our way of doing things and seeing things always seems right – until we actually measure things by God and his righteous and unchanging standards. Then we quickly learn how far off we have been. But too many believers today live as if they and they alone are the arbiter of truth and error, of... Continue Reading
4 Blind Spots that Sabotage Organizational Culture
Relationships are the core of your team's health and effectiveness.
If you lack purpose, it’s difficult to find common goals and the bonding that takes place in achieving those goals together. If you lack clarity of structure, roles and processes, then your team doesn’t know what to expect and therefore can’t trust decisions. If you lack leadership development, your team may not feel valued and... Continue Reading
Instavangelists and Our Restless Hearts
Self-worship in any form, however, is a recipe for spiritual restlessness.
Both the trajectory (outward, not inward) and posture (teachable, not entitled) of Peterson’s search stands in stark contrast to Instavangelism, and it raises tough questions for those leaving organized religion behind. With what will you replace it? What’s big enough to fill the God-shaped hole in your heart? If Christianity isn’t the true story of... Continue Reading
How Should We Respond to the Equality Act?
One of the biggest reasons we often go back to our sins of choice is that we don’t believe that God will take care of us.
There are few moments in my life as precious as seeing these men and women count that cost and do so with genuine hope and joy. When someone decides to follow Jesus into the valley of the shadow of death, I’ve never seen them do so despairingly. Without exception, I always see a measure of... Continue Reading
The Bill of Rights and the Common Good
One reason why our rights-based system has failed is that it continually leads to the creation of new rights never before imagined by our constitution’s framers.
This idea, sometimes called integralism, advocates for a form of government in which there are two rulers: one over the temporal realm, and one over the spiritual realm. However, in these two overlapping spheres of power, the temporal realm must be subordinated to the spiritual realm. Yet, as Gabriel S. Sanchez explains, this doesn’t mean... Continue Reading
Church of Atlanta Shooting Suspect Distances Itself, Urges ‘No Blame’ on Victims
The church of the alleged gunman in the fatal shootings of eight people in the Atlanta area, stated it was “absolutely distraught when we found out that the shooter was a member of our congregation.”
“Aaron’s actions are antithetical to everything that we believe and teach as a church,” the congregation’s statement reads. “In the strongest possible terms, we condemn the actions of Aaron Long as well as his stated reasons for carrying out this wicked plan. The shootings were a total repudiation of our faith and practice, and such... Continue Reading
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