How Should We Handle Outrage?
No matter how we’re treated as we work for the good of the people around us, we are to continue to act in the ways God has called us to act.
Don’t confuse grace for others with inaction. Don’t confuse treating people with dignity with avoiding loving confrontations. Be strong in your convictions, be open about the truth, and be faithful in your work, knowing that the reason you’re responding to others with grace rather than hatred is not so that people won’t hate you. Even... Continue Reading
Thinking About Revival – 3 – The Character of Revival
Fear. Awe. Reverence. Honour. Dignity. Sobriety. The fear of the Lord is at the heart of revival.
True reverence for God is a weighty, serious, profound response to God that is more than a feeling you feel. It instead becomes a sense of God’s importance, greatness, beauty, loveliness that affects every part of the Christian life. The fear of the Lord is what we experience the clearer our view becomes of who... Continue Reading
The Conclusion to the Lord’s Prayer
Should the Reformed Catechisms Retain It?
The concluding doxology is an integral part of the Lord’s Prayer. It is a genuine saying of Christ. Nevertheless, early in the history of the Church, it began to be regarded with suspicion by some Christians. For this reason, no doubt, it is absent from most of the manuscripts of the Latin versions and from... Continue Reading
The Egalitarian Beachball is a Church Wrecking Ball
Southern Baptist pastors, both men and women, have voiced their opposition to a proposed amendment to the SBC Constitution that disallows women from preaching or pastoring in accordance with 1 Timothy 2–3.
We see the Egalitarian Beachball swinging, smashing, and demolishing. Unless it is stopped, it will bring about the downfall of many churches, one hit at a time. As the church goes, so go the children of God, their families, and their nation. God’s Word cannot be mocked. It can only be obeyed. And when it... Continue Reading
When God Feels Distant
Why are there times and seasons when it seems like God is either aloof or further away from us than at others?
Your greatest enemy, undoubtedly, are you. That internal chatterbox that is always running its trap, speaking lies about you, discouraging you, and clouding your judgment, must not be allowed the freedom to go on talking. Instead, you must repent of your sin, remain steadfast until your experience improves, remind God of who He is and... Continue Reading
A Damning Theology and Practice of Prayer
It matters to God how we pray.
While it appears spiritual, it is erroneous to call fire on believers’ problems. We don’t bind demons or Satan in hell. Because we simply don’t have such authority or power. You cannot command Satan. Thus hours of prayer spent in these ways is corrupt and unbiblical. Christians must grasp a proper theology of the nature... Continue Reading
Life and Death
If death motivates unholiness for the unbeliever, how much more should it motivate holy living for the believer, out of a love for the Lord?
There is no higher calling in this world than to live for Christ. When you wake up tomorrow morning, using this verse or others, actively seek to dawn this mentality. Live for Jesus, display Jesus to others, tell others about Jesus, being reminded that this life is a vapor that is here and then vanishes.... Continue Reading
The Kingdom’s Personal Piety
The key to real, godly, biblical piety is both to know God and to want to please Him.
We need to avoid the mistake of the gentiles, thinking that God is like some sort of divine slot machine, that He is bound to hear us and give us what we want if we pray long enough and with enough fancy theological words. Further, we must also not think that somehow God is so... Continue Reading
The Whole Bible for the Whole Christian
We must not read Scripture cafeteria style.
We must consider ALL of Scripture, and we must learn the basics of biblical interpretation. The cults and heretics are involved in twisting truth and skewing Scripture. We must do otherwise. We must accept all that the Bible teaches, but properly understood and interpreted. God did not give us just some books of the Bible, or parts... Continue Reading
The Scandal of “The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind”
Noll’s famous line, “The scandal of the evangelical mind seems to be that no mind arises from evangelicism” has revealed itself, nearly three decades later, to be devoid of meaning.
What must not be forgotten, however, is the use to which this book has been put toward for the last few decades. Those who used this text to promote a syncretism of Christianity with secular ideological agendas have done untold damage to the cause of the Christian faith and are directly responsible for the divisions... Continue Reading
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