Teaching Our Children about Forgiveness
Our children learn the most about forgiveness when we forgive each other.
Family is wonderful. It can also, at times, be volatile. Establish a regular rhythm of prayer together as a family. This can be as easy as praying at mealtimes. This regular rhythm, even if it is only at one meal a day, gives us an opportunity to go before the Lord whenever inevitable tensions arise.... Continue Reading
Foster Children: The New Pawn in the Gender Wars
A foster-care regulation from the Biden administration conditions federal funds on support for a child’s transgender identity.
Emerging evidence suggests that “social transition” may interfere with the natural resolution of gender dysphoria and greatly increase the chances that a passing phase becomes the basis for lifelong and potentially harmful medical interventions. The Cass Review alludes to this possibility, emphasizing that social transition is “an active intervention because it may have significant effects on... Continue Reading
How Pop Nietzscheanism Masquerades as Christianity
Pastoral ministry goes on, day to day, year to year, whatever the political officer class, right and left, are debating.
The threat to religious liberty remains and has indeed expanded, but a new one has also emerged: the temptation to combat this by fusing Christianity with worldly forms of power and worldly ways of achieving the same. For want of a better term, it’s a kind of pop Nietzscheanism that uses the idioms of Christianity.... Continue Reading
Target Audience
A geofencing controversy highlights growing efforts to silence pro-life activism in the digital space.
It’s become much more challenging for pregnancy resource centers to advertise on Google and Yelp, with the latter even requiring consumer alerts notifying searchers that pregnancy resource centers do not provide abortions. Trudden said Heartbeat International hasn’t been able to advertise its abortion pill rescue network on Google since the platform deemed it “misinformation” in... Continue Reading
Mission in the 21st Century: When It’s for God’s Glory…and When It Isn’t
If mission is ultimately about the glory of God, we will think carefully about what we do and how we do it.
If our desire in mission is to bring glory to God, what we do and how we do it must be God-glorifying. Mission as listening has lots of useful things to teach us–but God is not glorified if we only listen and never proclaim the gospel. Similarly, mission as growth has lots of useful things... Continue Reading
Love the Lord with All Your Mind
Is it time to reevaluate how you are using your mind to glorify God?
Scripture tells us we are to love the Lord with all our minds. Yes, we are to love God with more than the mind alone, but in our current culture, we quickly spend hours giving our minds to countless trivialities. The reason we do it is because it is easy. Everything tends toward the path... Continue Reading
Why “Deconstruction” Isn’t the Right Word
Putting the right perspective on the trending term.
The problem with the word deconstruction, at the risk of committing an etymological fallacy, is that it carries the philosophical baggage of postmodernism, particularly the denial that truth can be known. It also carries the assumption of permanent doubt and the skepticism of authority. That’s why, when applied to Christian faith, so much deconstruction is... Continue Reading
The NFL’s Condemnation of Harrison Butker Exemplifies the Left’s Anti-Christian Bigotry
If you just want to be left alone, to live and let live, you need to understand that the left is not going to allow that.
Anti-Christian, and especially anti-Catholic, bigotry is the last acceptable prejudice in America. For such people, there can be only one faith in post-Christian America. They are not going to share a republic with people like Butker, and will do whatever they can to silence, deplatform, and discredit every prominent Christian who stands against them. At the same... Continue Reading
Knit Together
For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.
If our time in the womb as we develop is called by God a “knitting together,” a complex process that takes place over time, an intentional and careful and loving process by the very hand of God, then this truth will teach us something about the nature of the inverse as well. If time in... Continue Reading
Leaning, Idolatry, and Trusting Christ
Let us relinquish our stubborn grip on trying to construct our sense of worth, security, and purpose apart from Him.
Like Peter, our gaze shifts from Christ to focus on the storm, looking to temporal things for rescue instead of our faithful Lord. This unbelief assaults God’s glory, arrogantly dismissing His all-sufficiency as if He were not enough. It must be confessed and repented of. But thank God He has not left us alone in our... Continue Reading
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