The World Wants Your Family
Thoughts on How to Fight Back
Being different, being set apart and having a close family creates a sense of identity and purpose. Today so many young people are confused because they don’t know who they are, what they believe, or what their past is: they know nothing. They are adrift and depressed and confused to the point of trying to... Continue Reading
Is Jesus Divine?
Like Father, like Son.
The Apostle Paul makes a stunning claim: because Jesus was in the form of God in eternity past (when), accomplished salvation (what), and returned to heaven (where) bearing the name above all names (who), He is—as God the Son—worthy of worship from all corners of heaven and earth (why) (Phil. 2:5–11). Few people today... Continue Reading
The Case for Christian Nationalism: Preliminary Considerations
“[M]y goal is to reinvigorate Christendom in the West – that is my chief aim.”
There is much in this book worth thinking about and reflecting upon, even if one may well end up having almost as many questions as answers after going through its 480 pages. I still have a number of very real questions and do not agree with everything being said. A number of further articles will... Continue Reading
This I Believe
Complacent Christianity causes compartmentalization—a convenient separation of Christian truth from the beliefs that frame our day-to-day activities.
One of the primary causes of this spiritual malaise is our loss of confidence in the truth and goodness of the Christian faith. In every generation, we risk losing our wonder at the glory of Christian truth and the enduring witness of the church. Amid chaos and confusion, we can easily turn our focus on... Continue Reading
Trusting God Through Terminal Illness
It would be easy to look at me and feel that there was no purpose to my life, but that’s not what God says.
I know that God will give me the strength to keep going until he calls me home. I am learning not to worry about tomorrow, but to be thankful and trust him for each day. He knows what is coming and he will help me when it comes. Let me encourage you, in whatever situation you... Continue Reading
To Obey is Better than Sacrifice | 1 Samuel 15:22
Saul, therefore, was more concerned with earning the approval of his people than he was with winning the approval of God Almighty.
In this manner, we are very often like Saul, caring more about the fickle favor of those around us (or worse, of the online masses) than the favor of the true and living God. Yet we also tend to follow Saul’s pattern in handling our sin. Like Saul, it is all too easy to attempt... Continue Reading
My Two Decades Among the Young, Restless, Reformed – Part 2
We were a happy bunch then, but we are a divided bunch now.
Things aren’t exactly as they were during those heady days when that first T4G conference took place. We were a happy bunch then, but we are a divided bunch now—roiled over some of the issues I outlined in my concerns, with brawls over social justice and complementarianism chief among them. Collin Hansen proved prescient in... Continue Reading
A Life of Thankfulness
Thanksgiving takes over all of life. It invades every darkened corner of the mind, heart, will, and soul and becomes the ongoing ritual of our earthly existence.
We are not the rightful arbiter of our circumstances. Under every good and happy thing and every bitter and sour thing is the smiling face of God, whose providence allows for nothing but our good (Romans 8:28). “Oh, give thanks!” That is why we do not direct our thankfulness toward people, places, and particular situations because they... Continue Reading
The Search for Authenticity
What exactly are the authenticity-hunters actually looking for?
I am minded to believe that if we really want authenticity, it means certain churches will be authentically extremely messy. They will be very honest, but there will be serious mess. I am equally minded to believe that other churches will appear relatively together because they are. The sins they struggle with will seem like... Continue Reading
My Two Decades Among the Young, Restless, Reformed – Part 1
A Commitment to Communicating the Doctrines of Grace Graciously.
One of the great strengths I’ve observed in many modern Reformed ministries, particularly in John Piper with his emphasis on joy and satisfaction in Christ and in R. C. Sproul’s with his exuberant teaching ministry, is what I like to call compassionate Calvinism. Many of my professors, pastor friends, and many of my living ministry... Continue Reading
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