Fueling Reformation
True revivals are provoked by the sovereign work of God through the stirring of His Holy Spirit in the hearts of people.
If we want reformation, we have to start with ourselves. We have to start bringing the gospel itself out of darkness, so that the motto of every reformation becomes post tenebras lux — “after darkness, light.” Luther declared that every generation must declare freshly the gospel of the New Testament. He also said that anytime... Continue Reading
Why Is Sexual Immorality Such a Big Deal?
How do we understand and heed the seriousness of the Bible’s concern over sexual immorality while not giving space to our impulse to look down on others?
If we have the Bible’s high view of sex as a picture of the Church’s union with Christ and a respect for the power God has given it, we will not only take sexual sin very seriously, but we will also examine ourselves, confess the many ways we have failed to desire and fulfill God’s... Continue Reading
Getting Old is not Bad News for the Christian
While everything physical is in a constant state of decay, our inner selves are reversing the trend.
Because of God’s mercies that are new every morning, and because we are His children, we are growing in our inner selves younger – growing to look more and more like the true children of God even while our outer selves are growing older. Such is the grand and glorious paradox of Christian aging. What does... Continue Reading
The Unteachable Key to Biblical Wisdom
If being wise were as simple as just fearing God, then why does wisdom still seem so elusive for so many of us?
Though it strains against our selfish fiber, the key to biblical wisdom truly is teachability. If we would get a heart of wisdom, then we should pursue humble receptivity to God’s Word and biblical counsel. Wisdom’s house can’t be built without the stable steel of a teachable spirit. May God grow in us a longing... Continue Reading
The Failure of Evangelical Elites
While appearing to be valiant for truth, they conform Christianity to the spirit of the age.
Christianity tells the world what it does not wish to hear. We should not expect to be embraced by those whose thoughts and deeds contradict the truths of our faith. Nor should we seek to make our faith more palatable, lest the salt lose its savor. There are times in history when Christianity feels its... Continue Reading
Wokeism: When the Cure is Worse Than the Disease
Instead of healing racial wounds, wokeism inflames them.
One cure remains for that form of sinful human pride known as racism. The gospel of Jesus Christ strips us of all boasts, collapsing our ethnic claims of superiority, forcing us to accept the absolutely level ground at the foot of the cross. Africa receives some American errors that are quite beneficial. For example,... Continue Reading
Can Science Disprove the Christian Notion of the Soul?
What is more irrational, the Christian who believes in the soul or the atheist who believes in love?
The body can be weighted, measured, nipped, tucked, prodded, poked, whatever. The soul on the other hand, since it is immaterial, cannot. Does this make the Christian position somehow weaker, or beyond any real scrutiny? No. Do you have a soul? Can science say anything about it? Can science disprove it? Brian Cox, the... Continue Reading
The Weight and Wound of the Word
The Scriptures are profitable for reproof and correction; they provoke, unsettle, and rebuke us.
We must learn to sit with the weight and wound of a Bible passage. If we are shocked, offended, or rebuked by its obvious implications, that may be exactly the point. The Bible is miraculously cohesive, but it is not uniform. Different portions were given for different purposes; distinct authors at distinct moments to... Continue Reading
The Essential of Leadership We so Easily Miss
There are times when we just need to stop and enjoy what God has given us, refuel, and rest.
David teaches us that if we want to serve God well we do so best out of a deep knowledge of God that means we run to him for refuge, we look to him for joy and we hunger to know him more. In all our busyness the danger is we miss this, we forget... Continue Reading
Think Little
Jesus is clear that what we do with a little is very telling.
Thinking Little is what Jesus did when he spent his first thirty years in quiet, obscurity, obeying his parents in Nazareth. It’s why he spent his three-year ministry training 12 disciples, and confined himself to a small area, in order to change the world. In 1970, the author Wendell Berry wrote an essay called... Continue Reading
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