Prepare to Meet Your God
It was not famine which led these women to such grotesque sin—it was covenant unfaithfulness.
God’s concern with biblical justice, as portrayed in the Minor Prophets, is primarily seen in terms of His covenant with Israel. Any treatment of our current social milieu that doesn’t place things squarely within this interpretive lens is dangerously myopic, at best. The point being: social justicians tend to place a heavy emphasis on righting... Continue Reading
How a Sermon on Hell Lifted my Soul
Let the people know the deepest depths of God’s wrath so they can understand the highest heights of his mercy.
Weak preaching on the wrath of God equals weak preaching on the on the cross of Christ, and weak preaching of the cross leaves the convicted sinner wondering if he can find salvation. I walked out of that gathering with joy in my heart. God had lifted my head through his word. I knew what... Continue Reading
Woke Math Is Coming to a Classroom Near You
Not even algebra is safe from the social-justice warriors.
In a totalitarian society, math is the last refuge of irresistible reality. When we find thinking like Krylenko’s not only in our history and English classrooms (wherein ideology can be easily adapted to the subject material) but in math class as well, we have reason to recoil at just how far and how deep the... Continue Reading
This Is What the Progressives Want To Do to Us
Burned-out buildings, boarded-up storefronts, potholes, homeless encampments, and refuse in the streets are nothing more than collateral damage that occurs when radicals seek to create a “truly just society.”
While the term “progressivism” sounds like something to describe modern, secular intellectual and political movements, it actually has its roots more than two hundred years ago in the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham. Anyone who has taken a course in history of economic thought is well familiar with Bentham, who influenced the English economists from Thomas... Continue Reading
On Being a Remnant
God always prefers to work through a godly remnant.
So why does God seem to prefer to work through a remnant? There are various reasons for this. One is simply to show that it is God, and not mere human strength or power or might that gains the victory. As Zechariah 4:6 famously says, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not... Continue Reading
Enabling the Lame Man
John’s third sign encourages us to get up, take up our beds, and walk, because we walk with the risen Christ, the Waiting Place behind us, the land of Beulah before us.
Sin has brought all kinds of misery into the world, and Jesus has come to deliver us from sin and, consequently, its miseries. Furthermore, Jesus performed this sign on the Sabbath to challenge prevailing religious notions of rest. It is neither quietist inactivity nor ritualistic drudgery, but peace and empowerment. Jesus comes to bring rest.... Continue Reading
Diotrephes and the Fracturing of the Church
Big sins have slain a thousand churches and little sins have slain ten thousand.
Those who do the most harm to the church aren’t always those who fall from grace in an extravagant display of immorality, or those who come preaching another gospel. But often the worst fracturing is done by arrogance, wicked speech, and divisiveness slowly seeping into the fellowship of the church and breaking it apart. ... Continue Reading
Doubling Up on Typology
The Spirit of God sometimes strings together typologies to give even richer imagery of our salvation in Christ.
If we pray for the Spirit-enhanced eyes to see it, these dual typologies are pretty common in the Scriptures. Cain and Abel. David and Goliath. The tabernacle and the temple. The list could go on. These paired personalities or figures all teach us in tandem what the Lord has done for us. Like a double... Continue Reading
An Elephant in the Room-Sized Post on Gluttony
When it comes right down to it, gluttony is distrust of God’s provision, which is distrust of God’s character.
Gluttony is enslavement to our appetite. This sort of relationship is out of order. Paul says food is for the stomach and the stomach for food and both will be destroyed—meaning, both are temporal. It makes no sense, then, to elevate food or our hunger pangs to a place of authority over our wills. The... Continue Reading
What About Repentance?
Any evangelism that does not include a clear call to repent is not biblical evangelism.
It is cruel to misrepresent the terms of salvation to people. Yet that is exactly what happens when sinners are encouraged to “accept” Christ without due consideration of the necessity of repentance. That kind of false evangelism results in false conversion, and those who are thus victimized are deceived into thinking that they can have... Continue Reading
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