What Blood Teaches
The blood of Christ still speaks. It asks us to draw nearer, to the owner of the blood.
As “the mediator of a new covenant,” Jesus’s blood pleads not for justice but for mercy and grace. Justice says, “Level the scales!” Mercy says, “Don’t give me what I deserve.” And grace says, “You’re giving me all of this?” Jesus’s blood says what Abel’s couldn’t. It doesn’t speak retribution; it speaks redemption. I never thought of blood... Continue Reading
His Body. His Choice.
God created our body; therefore, it belongs to Him.
“It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves” (Psalm 100:3). He provides everything for our bodies; therefore, we are His. “They all wait for You to give them their food in due season” (Psalm 104:27). Above all, He has redeemed us – including our bodies in the resurrection – out of our... Continue Reading
Revive Us, O LORD!
The crucial question is, "Why don’t we experience a greater outpouring of God’s Spirit today?"
What is needed today—as in every age—is for a greater filling of the Holy Spirit. This is an event which begins with a sovereign act of Christ Jesus in heaven and results in a faithful human response on earth. Are Revivals Needed? Amongst many conservative Protestants today—be they Reformed, Evangelical or even Pentecostal—the topic... Continue Reading
Screen Sabbaths
A Modest Proposal for a Digital World
Taking disciplined time away from screens may not be the only way to live in the digital world without being conformed to it, but it is one good way. Over time, the gravitational pull of our phones may grow weaker, and we may find ourselves drawn into a different, far better orbit: the bright, life-giving... Continue Reading
The Age of Ingratitude
In gratitude, we acknowledge that we are not isolated, autonomous individuals but are dependent upon others.
We live in an age marked by infantile ingratitude…that means we live in an age when we do not really know how to live at all. Ingratitude has dehumanized us. In the times of turmoil in which we live, various candidates suggest themselves as ways of capturing the essence of our epoch: the age... Continue Reading
Where Did Satan Come From?
Angels had the opportunity to choose God or to choose not-God.
The only thing that had to happen for evil to exist, was for God to exist—which the Bible tells us has been true from all of eternity—and for God to create beings that were able to choose Him or not choose him. The Bible seems to tell us that Satan was a created being,... Continue Reading
Don’t Look Now But Your “Reformed” Theology Might Not Be Confessional
If we are to recapture objective confessional theology, we must stop confusing Reformed theology with individual Reformed theologians.
There has not just been a blurring of Reformed confessional boundaries but, also, some churches and presbyteries have intentionally erased their doctrinal walls of protection. None of this is surprising once we consider that the formal teaching of systematic theology has at many institutions been relegated to historians rather than theologians. This phenomenon has opened... Continue Reading
Rethinking the Rapture
Jesus did not teach a “left behind” rapture.
When Jesus says that some will be taken, he is saying that some will be arrested, taken into custody, beaten, and killed when the day of the Lord’s wrath comes. This day happened just like Jesus predicted, within a single generation, when the Romans came into the city, murdered, raped, and killed the Jews, and... Continue Reading
Let’s Hear It For the Failures
The only way to guard against all failure is to attempt nothing at all.
The day will come when we will stand before the Lord to give an account of how we used our gifts, talents, time, energy, enthusiasm, and everything else God has graciously bestowed upon us. Failure would be to admit that not only did we do nothing, but that we attempted nothing. Success would be to... Continue Reading
The Shadowy Nature of the Theocracy
Theonomy is utterly dependent upon the embrace of a postmillennialism that inevitably demands the implementation of a Christian theistic ethic into the fabric of every society.
Those who have been swept up with various forms of theonomy (or Christian Nationalism) should reflect deeply on the redemptive-historical role of the Old Covenant civil law as well as on how the Apostles spiritually applied it to the New Covenant church. With a burgeoning interest in the idea of Christian Nationalism, the Christian... Continue Reading
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