Why We Should All Struggle to Understand the Moral Consequences of IVF
The lack of suffering does not mean there is no sadness. Or no humanity.
Widespread endorsement of IVF emboldens an industry that prioritizes profit over people, adults’ selfish desires over children’s natural rights, quick fixes over long-term women’s health solutions, desirable traits above all, motherless and fatherless children, the erasure of women in reproduction, fertility fraud, and making human existence transactional. Renowned British-American columnist Andrew Sullivan made waves this weekend when he debuted an article grappling with the moral... Continue Reading
Christians and Personal Empire Building
It is not about us and building our own little kingdoms.
“A church ought to be friendly to genuine seekers, but the church ought to recognize that there is only one Seeker. His name is God! If you want to be friendly to someone, if you want to accommodate someone, accommodate Him and His glory, even if it is rejected by everyone else. We are not... Continue Reading
The Bible and Slavery
When someone brings up slavery as an excuse for rejecting the Bible as a reliable moral guide, I would recommend referring to the Apostle Paul’s commands to Christian masters (Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 4:1).
Accepting what the Bible teaches on slavery does not mean condoning slavery as it was once practiced in America. Some, such as William Lloyd Garrison, assumed that it did and rejected the Bible altogether. Others didn’t go that far but did begin to regard their conscience as a more reliable guide to morality than the... Continue Reading
Till He Was Strong
What Makes the Strong So Weak?
It is not a matter of strong or weak, but where we place our trust. If we are prideful then we will find ourselves in opposition to God. But if we humble ourselves, and see ourselves as we ought, then God gives more grace. May we be the blessed weak who lean on a strong... Continue Reading
A New Birth
Without rebirth, we can never experience regeneration.
There was once a time where death had its strangle hold on you, but not now! Now you are lifted high by the very hands of God and seated in the heavenly realms as renewed, refreshed, and regenerated. New birth through Christ Jesus brings a new stunning reality—you are a child of God. You were... Continue Reading
Gospel Hope for a Culture Fixated on Getting Even
The desire for revenge.
As Christians, we can love our neighbors by helping them see that their inclination to get even, while understandable, is a destructive dead end. Jesus shows us a better, more effective, more satisfying way. Perhaps the recurrent theme of revenge is a just that: a black backdrop against which we see, for the actual wonder... Continue Reading
Thinking of Home
The ultimate hope of my soul is to see the resurrected Christ in His Father’s house, and He promised that this will happen.
Every single person, Christian or not, longs to be reunited with loved ones who have died, but the Christian longs to be with Christ. I can’t wait to see my father, my mother, and my friends in heaven, but beyond that, the ultimate hope of my soul is to see the resurrected Christ in His... Continue Reading
Works in the Book of James—“Fruits and Evidences of a True and Lively Faith”
Justification and Sanctification—Two Benefits of Salvation in Christ
James is writing about how true justifying faith leads to sanctification—to good works. He writes that a mere intellectual faith that does not lead to good works is dead (2:17). The question is then, what do good works do? Do they make us right with God? Or do they show that God has justified a... Continue Reading
The Sinful Serpents Twisted Around My Soul
Commune with your own heart daily; beware of Satan’s devices.
At times I am ready to hope the gloomy territories of the grave are almost ready for me, that I may lay down this body of sin upon the block for everlasting execution. O! when shall these clogs and fetters be knocked off, and the dark and gloomy walks of this valley of tears, be... Continue Reading
Learning Not to Know
Making Friends with Our Questions
Our ignorance matters, especially in the questions where we haven’t freed ourselves to question. Our knowledge of God is limited, and acknowledging this is required in order to push further into God and the faith. This can sound like valorising doubt, as though it’s ‘stunning and brave’ to doubt key truths of Christianity. It isn’t, and... Continue Reading
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