Keep a Close Watch on Yourself!
God charges every Christian to be vigilant over how you behave and what you believe.
Do you see it? Crumbling behavior and crumbling beliefs, a shipwrecked life or a shipwrecked faith, both result from a lack of vigilance. This is why it is your responsibility to “keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching” (1 Timothy 4:16). This is why God charges elders to “pay careful attention to... Continue Reading
Augustine Could’ve Written “City of God” in 2022
The "City of God" provides us with a blueprint for cultural engagement in our own day that’s both biblically faithful and culturally sensitive.
The intertwining of the two cities in this present age helps us to realize “culture” isn’t something that sits obediently outside the church door waiting to be let in; it forms us inside the church too, whether we like it or not. And the separate destinies of the two cities remind us that, however comfortable... Continue Reading
What Does It Take to End Well?
In a world where the sinful, scandalous abuse of power threatens to cloud out the authority and beauty of the gospel we preach, we need faithful preachers.
Seasoned pastor, watch your doctrine and life, and work hard to be a faithful finisher who also teaches younger pastors how to be faithful finishers. Younger pastor, watch your doctrine and life. Focus on what it will take to be faithful ministers with character and who finish well because you purpose to be faithful rather... Continue Reading
Songs from Exile
Ours is a spiritual exile as we confront a culture and government increasingly hostile to Christianity.
When the church is paganized there is no need for walls or gates in the city of God. Then the church doesn’t need to worry about singing the Lord’s song—it can sing the songs of the pagan culture because there is no longer a strange and foreign land. In exile the people of Israel... Continue Reading
A Couple of Kingdoms
The Bible’s two kingdoms are the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the devil. Neither is equated with the state or any earthly institution.
This earth, this world is our Father’s world. Jesus has bought it with his blood and has taken up the mantle of Adam. He has fulfilled the covenant of obedience in perfect detail. He will continue to rule and to reign until all things are beneath his feet. He is ruling and reigning right now. And when... Continue Reading
Why the Frankfurt Declaration Is Necessary
The signatories of the Frankfurt Declaration see the unprecedented disregard for liberty as just one symptom of an emerging totalitarianism of the state over all spheres of society, including the church.
The Frankfurt Declaration ends with an expression of gratitude to those civil authorities who respect these Christian beliefs and the rights and liberties of each individual, and with a call to repentance to those civil authorities who have disregarded these freedoms, lest in the abuse of their God-given authority they become liable to God’s wrath.... Continue Reading
Letters to an Agnostic #4: Reality Is Either Personal or Impersonal
If reality is impersonal, then no universal meaning exists.
Reality is complex, the world is sophisticated, existence is perplexing: why should we expect the answers to ultimate questions to be easy and transparently simple? Nevertheless, I do not think these choices between religions are as overwhelming or perplexing as they might sound. Dear J, You’re right, my thinking is quite binary on this... Continue Reading
Be Better
The unmarketability of some young men has everything to do with poor life choices and refusing to turn themselves into their best version.
Being a person of character and marrying a person of character makes the hard work of life more bearable. Plus, these traits also point to a greater probability of marital success. That’s why marital happiness transcends economic strata, culture, and country. Looking Around A recent study conducted on a dating site (with 7 million users) reported... Continue Reading
From Slavery to Sabbath—the Story of Exodus
The Sabbath is a reminder of God’s deliverance from the slavery of sin, as we are set apart from a world that neither rests nor seeks salvation in Christ.
The Sabbath is a foretaste of what is to come in the new heavens and earth, where we will enjoy eternal Sabbath rest. We look forward to that day. But for now we enjoy the glimpses we have from Christ on the Lord’s Day, the Christian Sabbath. When people think of the Book of... Continue Reading
What Satan Hates Most
After this dazzling creature was cast from the halls of heaven, God knelt down in the dust of the earth to craft a being to rule over and defeat him.
Satan hates godly, fruitful, multiplying, ruling, and subduing humans. He hates the Church that is taking back his territory. And he hates most fiercely covenant Christians who catechize their children. There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The... Continue Reading
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