How Should You Make Peace?
God has instructed us to make peace, not keep the peace.
God calls us to be peacemakers, and when we strive to do what He calls us to do, He will reward our faithfulness and bless our efforts. Blessed are the peacemakers. Sadly, in this fallen world in which we live, conflict is a normal part of everyday life. This is true not only among unbelievers... Continue Reading
‘Indoctrination’: Colorado Parents Outraged by Elementary School LGBTQ History Standards Launching This Fall
The standards incorporate the “historical and civic contributions of LGBTQ+” in first through 12th grade history and civics curriculum.
First graders who can “discuss, identify, and explain important LGBTQ+ symbols” will be considered “prepared graduates” under the newly implemented standards. Colorado’s new LGBTQ social studies standards, which include first grade lessons on LGBTQ history, transgenderism, and the rainbow flag, is age-inappropriate and pushes a radical agenda, some parents in the state complain. “I... Continue Reading
The Expectations and Responsibilities of Deacons
If we ignore the Bible’s teaching about deacons, we leave God’s people without clear biblical expectations for their leaders.
Training and empowering leaders…requires more than just a good plan or a thoughtful process. It requires the wisdom of self-awareness, the power of grace, and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Does your church have deacons? And if so, do you know who they are and what they do? If the answer to these... Continue Reading
The Spirit’s Prayer and the Father’s Promise in Romans 8:26–30
The Holy Spirit prays in a way that, due to our weakness, we do not comprehend.
All things work together for our eschatological glory and good—in part, due to the Spirit’s prayers. What God planned of our salvation from eternity past will certainly come to be. We will be perfectly conformed to the image of His Son and glorified with Him. The Holy Spirit helps us on our way to... Continue Reading
The Storm Center of the Protestant Reformation
Justification by faith is by God’s grace as an undeserved gift.
Those godly believers we all admire and want to be like are the ones who have been through the fire. When the ungodly suffer they are shamed, but when God’s people suffer they love God even more and rejoice in their sufferings. 1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God... Continue Reading
A Change of Age
America and the West stand at a civilizational inflection point.
If we are seeking to equip our children in kingdom service, then our children will need to be adequately equipped for the kinds of battles that they are going to be facing. We owe it to our children to take these matters seriously. We may be dead before the full weight of these shifts are felt... Continue Reading
Political Discussions in Christian Forums
Do we wish our faith to be a refuge from worldly woe? If yes, then can we agree that it is best to keep it free of non-essential things about which we can and will disagree?
Another problem with dragging politics into Christian forums is its effect on other believers. If political claim A is presented in Christian forum B, it implies that A is the Christian position. Other believers who disagree are implied to be anti- or unchristian for differing, put in the difficult position of arguing against the implied... Continue Reading
Are Right-Wing Christians Guilty of “Political Idolatry?”
There seem to be essentially three categories of Christians in the American Evangelical church at the moment.
The Woke-Right crowd commits idolatry as they do the bidding of those aligned with the Left. Unlike the vague slanderous charge of political idolatry to those on their right, those in the Biblicist category can clearly define the idolatrous participation of those to their Left. The secular ideology of Social Justice can and has been... Continue Reading
The Olympics as Utopian Theater
It’s all a show in the city of man.
The Olympics are an example of what Augustine called the city of man. A city of man is self-serving and, ultimately, doomed to fall away. In our world, progressives claim to promote justice but make common cause with genocide in the name of intersectionality. Many conservatives are quick to take on a religious mantle when... Continue Reading
Pro-Natalism Is Not Enough
To rightly view and encourage childbearing, we must honor and receive children as gifts, regardless of their abilities or health.
Technocratic pro-natalists often desire to create a certain kind of a child: a healthy child, a smart child, or a “wanted” child. Indeed, with the expansion of embryonic genetic selection technology and the potential of artificial wombs or in vitro gametogenesis—an experimental procedure that genetically modifies anyone’s DNA into viable gametes—parents may use technology to... Continue Reading
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