How Passion Primes the Case for Christianity
Are you living the kind of life that causes others to ask about your faith?
The best jurors are passionate, open-minded, and humble, and it’s important to understand these characteristics if we hope to have an impact as Christian Case Makers. If you’ve spent time thinking through the evidence and you think you are prepared to make a case for what you believe as a Christian, take an equally conscientious... Continue Reading
Seeking and Finding Satisfaction
A wise heart is a heart that is satisfied in God.
Why does Moses ask God for satisfaction? “That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.” Divine satisfaction brings joy externally (“rejoice”) and internally (“be glad”). It is a life of heavenly blessing, spiritual contentment, and complete fulfillment. Unfortunately, we look for satisfaction in the wrong places. But the futile and foolish things of... Continue Reading
How to Make Better, More Careful, More Persuasive Arguments
Two ways we can make our arguments more careful, and more persuasive.
It’s not that we can’t ever generalize, lump people into groups, or argue from specific examples to broader themes, but if we mean to indict a whole group, we must show that the indictment is largely true of the whole group. Otherwise, we are just signaling to our in-group that we are against the correct... Continue Reading
When “Justification by Faith Alone” Replaced the Kingdom of God
When justification by faith alone becomes more important than the kingdom itself, then we have a dysfunctional body.
Jesus came preaching the centrality of the kingdom, and not the centrality of worship, not the centrality of the sacraments, not the centrality of prayer, and not even the centrality of justification by faith alone. All these are critical parts but they must never become a substitute for the kingdom itself. I have three... Continue Reading
Be Filled with…Emotion?
The purpose of what we sing is to form our hearts, to shape our responses toward God.
The fact is that qualities like intensity, passion, enthusiasm, exhilaration, or euphoria are never described in Scripture as qualities to pursue or stimulate, they are never used to define the nature of spiritual maturity or the essence of worship, and they are never listed as what the Spirit produces in a believer’s life. First... Continue Reading
The Magdeburg Confession and Resistance Theory
An important early document on how Christians might deal with tyrants.
But its [the Magdeburg Confession] importance has stood the test of time. It especially came to the fore just a few years ago when the Covid reign of terror descended upon much of the world…As this globalist statism is likely to only get worse in the days ahead, returning to these older documents become more... Continue Reading
The Unity and Continuity of the Covenants
Throughout Scripture, one finds God working to gather a people to Himself through covenantal relationships.
Covenant is woven throughout Scripture. Why? Because in God’s covenantal work, He has been working to bring His people to Himself and He has made them His own. If you sat down and read the entire Bible from cover to cover, you would notice that one theme surfaces repeatedly: covenant. A covenant is a... Continue Reading
Climb a Mountain, Swim a Sea, Fight a Dragon
Grace is offensive.
Naaman did what so many of us did when we first heard of grace—we rejected it. But God did for Naaman what he did to so many of us—he pursued us and drew us back. He saved us and drew him in. He rescued us and drew him to himself. He did it all because... Continue Reading
Point to His Faithfulness
Because God is faithful, we can be secure.
Your faith may be small, but His faithfulness is great. Yes, your sin may be great, but His grace is greater. Our God is the faithful One, and may we continue to put our hope in Him. “I’m just not sure I’m saved.” He said this as he looked at me from across the... Continue Reading
Fake News: Complementarianism and Disinformation
Disinformation about complementarity is pasted on Twitter, promoted on Facebook, and spread via blog posts and magazine articles.
In our age of rapid, digital communication, “fake news” is as common as ever. As we’ve seen, disinformation regarding complementarianism abounds, whether those arguments are theological, historical, or moral. May we not be fooled by such claims. Rather, let us be like Bereans, testing to see if these things are so. Donald Trump made... Continue Reading
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