Brave New World or 1984?
As the West realized that history was still ongoing, that there are real dangers out there, and that real evil really exists, the response was not to return to our Christian roots but rather to hide our collective heads in the sand.
I have long pondered whether Brave New World or 1984 was more plausible as the fate of the West. But just the other day it finally dawned on me that the right answer to this question is not one or the other: it is both! We are headed to Brave New World by way of 1984. They are not alternatives but sequential... Continue Reading
The Injustice of Social Justice. Why Woke Social Justice Is Antibiblical
While biblical justice is at the forefront of championing the innocent, the downtrodden, the weak, the poor, the widow and the orphan, it doesn’t give one’s “oppression” status as an excuse for that person to do evil or to have a different standard of judgment.
In general, God demands blindness to age, ethnic group, and sex, in the sense that it assumes all humans are equal in their status of humanness. This is why a consistent biblical worldview is opposed to partiality, slavery, and abortion. Also, the biblical worldview tempers authentic justice with mercy and forgiveness. In woke social justice,... Continue Reading
Jesus and The Reality of Hell
But Jesus was not skittish about preaching hell. He knew the stakes couldn’t be higher.
When Jesus speaks of eternal punishment he means just that. He means that hell is real. Of course, our perceptions of it may be inaccurate, but our belief in it is well-grounded in the Scriptures. It is a place prepared for the devil and his angels, so it cannot simply refer to the graves of... Continue Reading
They Call Her Blessed
We gather strength from spending time with God in Scripture reading and prayer. Then we pour ourselves into our families.
To be a godly wife and mother is a privilege and a blessing. Do you doubt this? Does the Proverbs 31 woman seem oppressed? No. She is fulfilled. She serves her family by cooking, cleaning, sewing, purchasing goods, selling products, buying land, and gardening. She helps the needy. She is kind, strong, wise, diligent, faithful, and... Continue Reading
Why Is Christianity So “Exclusive”?
Ultimately, all worldviews, whether religious or otherwise, make objective truth claims which would have real-world consequences if true.
To accept Christianity, then, is to accept objective truth claims that carry the weight of other objective claims about reality. And, as with other objective claims about reality, there is a consequence for rejecting truth. There is a consequence for rejecting reality. Paul’s assertion that there is only one gospel was well warranted. It is... Continue Reading
Bright Hope from Yesterday: How the Old Testament Deepens Faith
“The Old Testament points us to the Lord’s faithful yesterdays in order to brighten our hope for tomorrow.”
The faithfulness of God to do what he said he would do, and be who he said he would be, is the great source of deep and durable hope. “I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised,” Romans 15:8–9 says, “to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,... Continue Reading
Difficult Bible Passages: Hebrews 2:10 and 5:8-9
These passages have long puzzled Christians.
Being fully God he of course is sinless and perfectly obedient. So how ever we are to understand these verses, we need to also consider the humanity of Christ, not just his deity. Related to this, we know from elsewhere in Hebrews (let alone the rest of the New Testament) that Jesus is assumed to... Continue Reading
If the Pirates Leave, Only the Parrots Remain
We need men willing to take the ship with truth in love – to restore unequivocal surrender to her true captain, Christ.
I am not endorsing everyone who says anything negative about the S.B.C. But I am saying there are some godly voices out there like Tom Ascol, Tom Buck, Jared Longshore, and Gabe Hughes (so many more names I could mention) who love the convention so much, and those within the convention so much, that they... Continue Reading
The Draw of Worldly Christianity
The Scriptures give a condition to following Jesus that is the complete opposite of self-pursuit: self-denial.
Be careful what drives your emotion and in which direction! In pop-Christianity, people claim they are elevating God; they just functionally believe that is done by emoting passionately during the service to “give everything to Him.” Me-centered Christianity is very expressive, but we must take great care as to the content of the worship. ... Continue Reading
When a Free Society Becomes a Police State
“What I have, this place gave me. I will fight on till the last day. It will be an honour if I...sacrifice.” - Jimmy Lai
Perhaps you read all of this and think the following: The Chinese Communist Party is terrible. We hear horrific stories out of China all the time. About how the CCP is carrying out a genocide against Uyghur Muslims and how it is staging videos of people pretending to be happy Uyghurs in an attempt to conceal the... Continue Reading
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