Why AI Pornography Is Far More Dangerous than Yesterday’s Porn
Millions of years of man-made technological advances cannot improve what God has already designed.
A myriad of apps offers sophisticated AI conversational models that give lonely users a relationship with a pixel model: a perfect companion who is patient, kind, bears all things, believes all things, and doesn’t expect any of the same virtue in return. The great sin of Babel was that they wanted to be like God. While... Continue Reading
Preaching Law and Gospel
The gospel needs to be preached in all the riches of divine grace mediated through Jesus Christ. But broadly, it's also to be preached in all Jesus teaches and commands.
Reformed theology understands that God has chosen to relate to us by means of covenant — a relationship established by a promise. There are two divine covenants, namely the covenant of works and the covenant of grace. Witsius wrote: “[The law] served the covenant of works of old: and still it serves the covenant of... Continue Reading
The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy: The Introduction
Let us take the opportunity to rejoice in the deepening of our own conviction about God’s Book that our lives might be continually conformed to it.
Though inerrancy does have a major consequence on one’s sanctification, the Committee is not contending that belief in inerrancy makes a perfect Christian. The Committee “gladly acknowledges that many who deny the inerrancy of Scripture do not display the consequences of this denial in the rest of their belief and behavior.” Moreover, they are equally... Continue Reading
Work Out Your Own Salvation
The teaching to “work out your own salvation” is a comprehensive commitment to God in body and soul.
God’s provisions of faith, repentance, and the church are worthy of highlighting how we work out our salvation. Faith, because “the righteous shall live by his faith” (Hab. 2:4); repentance, because it is “leads to life” (Acts 11:18); and committing to the Christian church, because “working out your own salvation” isn’t an individual task only,... Continue Reading
Seek the Things that are Above
Four ways in which disciples of Christ should set their affections on things above and not on things that are on the earth.
Discipleship is impossible without the Word of Christ since Jesus said that making disciples fundamentally involves teaching them to observe all that he commanded. In order to observe Christ’s teaching, Christ’s teaching must dwell in us richly. One of the most well-known verses in all of Scripture about singing is found in Colossians 3:16.... Continue Reading
Whom Will You Call?
Jesus teaches us to end our prayers with an acknowledgement of qualification.
There’s no need to have any doubt about the God before whom we’ve laid all our petitions and requests. For He won’t fail or delay. But He will answer us. After all, says Jesus, the kingdom is his. He rules over everything; it’s all under his command. He can order anything to be done for... Continue Reading
Hospitality: A Command for Our Joy
Why Be Hospitable?
The same heart behind hospitality—whether to strangers or close friends—is also seen in the way we care for suffering Christians outside our homes as well, as we love our brethren and the outcast. Our motivation for hospitality should flow from the commands of Scripture, yes, but also from our desire to help and be involved... Continue Reading
A Man’s Work is for His People
Rightly Understanding the Quiet and Peaceable Life
The willingness of the men of Gad and Simeon to do their duty, and the blessing of the women being able to take on the responsibility of homesteading while their husbands and fathers are off fighting in the war for their countrymen’s freedom is a tale as old as time. Yet, it’s a perfect representation... Continue Reading
Enduring Trials
How should we as Christians respond to various trials?
God is our refuge and our strength. We are also reminded that God “tests the righteous.” Yes, we may – and do – suffer pain. Job suffered the loss of everything. Yet, from the hand of God, we are being strengthened, tempered, and refined. The testing from God is meant to prepare us and not to... Continue Reading
Troubles, Prayer, and Deliverance
Your constant privilege is prayer, to visit the throne of grace and wait upon our God.
The promise encourages us, the invitation allures us, but trouble impels us to call upon our God! Our troubles are frequently the instruments the Holy Spirit employs to carry on His sacred work in our hearts. By troubles, He empties us of self, weans us from the world, and endears Jesus and His salvation to us! Oh, believer, make use of your privilege in every... Continue Reading
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