Where Do You Stop?
If you object to the Confederate Flag, why not to Alabama’s and Florida’s
“If these accusers don’t stop, they will be yet the latest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Earth’s Holocaust,” which recounts the absurd lengths to which reformers go to arrive at a perfect society or institution, so absurd that activists forget to look in the mirror because they threw it into the fire.” If... Continue Reading
The Top Five Forgotten Founders
Important founders of the United States that are not well known to many
Lemuel Haynes: born in Connecticut to a white mother and black father, Haynes worked as an indentured servant prior to enlisting in the Massachusetts militia, and then the Continental Army. Haynes also experienced evangelical conversion and came under the tutelage of local Calvinist pastors. Shortly after the Declaration of Independence, Haynes wrote “Liberty Further Extended,”... Continue Reading
Radical for Jesus a New Kind of Legalism?
Today, young adults struggle with a new form of it: the pressure to live radically for Christ.
Bradley said many Christian leaders have inadvertently encouraged the radical message by calling young people to make a difference and change the world. A growing disdain for American suburbs in favor of the inner city has also contributed as has the missional church movement, which encourages people to be missionaries in their own communities. ... Continue Reading
40 Questions for Christians Now Waving Rainbow Flags
Something to chew on before swallowing everything the world and Facebook put on our plate.
If you consider yourself a Bible-believing Christian, a follower of Jesus whose chief aim is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, there are important questions I hope you will consider before picking up your flag and cheering on the sexual revolution. These questions aren’t meant to be snarky or merely rhetorical. They are sincere,... Continue Reading
Dear Christian Friends: Remember You Are Not Home
Christians have for centuries lived in communities that did not welcome them. However, they made it and the gospel made it.
Finally, remember that Jesus never called the church to redeem culture or create a Christian America. Our job is to glorify God by declaring and demonstrating the gospel. The church is an embassy of grace on foreign soil. And we must remember that this church has been, is being, and will be built by Jesus... Continue Reading
Since It Is God’s Law…
Antinomianism downplays the law; legalism downplays the gospel.
Watson goes on to say that in a legal sense no one can obey the law because of the fall and our sinful nature. However, he notes, in a gospel sense we can obey the law. “Gospel obedience consists in a real endeavor to observe the whole moral law (Ps. 119:166):” Our triune God... Continue Reading
How Should You Talk to Your Children About Same-Sex Marriage?
How does one teach about the law and the controversy, without exposing one’s children to more than they can handle?
The Bible isn’t nearly as antiseptic as Christians sometimes pretend to be, and it certainly doesn’t shirk back from addressing all the complexities of human life. If we are discipling our children, let’s apply the Scriptures to all of life. If we refuse to talk to our children about the reality of the world they... Continue Reading
4 Perfections of God’s Transforming Word
What are the particular traits or characteristics of God’s Word that render it so useful a tool and so powerful a weapon in the hand of the Holy Spirit?
Third, God’s Word is right, pure, and clean. Here is the Old Testament statement of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. The Word is said to be right or straight because it does not deviate from perfect conformity to any just standard by which truth is measurable. The Word is pure as a pure light is clear... Continue Reading
Working Out What God Has Worked In
Yes we labor, strain and strive to reach the prize. But we do it in the power of God who works within us.
Someone once said, “We must work out what God has worked in.” Jesus saves us as a gift, and “sanctifies” us, or sets us apart for himself. We then must begin to walk out that “sanctification,” in which the Holy Spirit moves and empowers us to cooperate with him to become like Christ. Someday we’ll... Continue Reading
Why Good Works?
Those who have been given new life (regenerated) will do good works.
In our time, of course, we’ve seen the same sort of ping-ponging. We have the self-described, so-called Federal Vision movement arguing essentially the Arminian doctrine of salvation and calling it Reformed. Among the evangelicals there are antinomians arguing that the moral law no longer applies to Christians and then there are moralists (nomists) who teach... Continue Reading