Be Angry but Sin Not!
We must refuse to let justifiable outrage spill over in into a bitter, resentful, all-out, no-holes-barred, outburst.
Christ was always reasonably angry, with just cause, in proper proportion to sin he met or a incalcitrant rebel heart. Yet, our excellent, sinless, Lord never once gave way to the pressure or stress of an assault on His person by an uncontrolled outburst against a perpetrator: He could drive money-changers out in order to... Continue Reading
What Is Gossip? Exposing a Common and Dangerous Sin
We will give an account for every careless word we have spoken, not just for the malicious ones.
The Lord Jesus taught us that all of the words we speak, good and bad, flow up and out from the abundance of good or evil stored in our hearts (Matthew 12:33–37). The same is true for why we want to listen to gossip. Like calls to like. We are attracted to evil because of... Continue Reading
How Did John Calvin Die?
"We can truly say,” Theodore Beza noted, “that in this one man God has been pleased to demonstrate to us in our day the way to live well and to die well.”
He was indefatigable, and his literary output was extraordinary. But when it came to his view of himself, Calvin had learned the grace of humility. In death, as in life, his great priority was never to point to himself, but to Christ his redeemer. The last ten years of Calvin’s life were quiet and productive.... Continue Reading
Being Conservative is No Longer Enough
We don’t need to spend time calling Americans back to conservatism; we need to call them to faith in Jesus.
If America is going to repent of its idolatry and disobedience, Christians must engage in a massive evangelical effort, the only way of bringing about what Americans really need: a change of heart. The place to start is in worship, the center of the Christian life. Thus repenting of the disobedience of not teaching the... Continue Reading
Dangers To Christianity Are Coming From Left And Right And Inside
Christian Nationalism, a dangerous and anti-Christian movement.
Christian Nationalism attempts to fuse the Christian message and hope with the political and cultural ambitions of a particular nation or people group. In the end, the Gospel becomes a tool of nationalism, serving not to proclaim the Lordship of Christ to the nations but to preserve a way of life draped in Stars and... Continue Reading
A Review, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
The most ominous warning sign of the increase of soft-totalitarianism is simply the unspoken demand to believe lies. Affirming obvious lies by silence is required in order to conform.
Hard-totalitarianism is the absence of liberty produced by a totally brutal civil government. Any refusal to conform to state-mandated rules, especially in regard to speech, results in an arrest and being sent to the Gulag (the prison for non-conformists) …. Soft-totalitarianism is much more subtle. Rather than escort you off to prison, the civil-government... Continue Reading
Assurances for Dark Days
The reality of God's presence is determined not by circumstance or location but by the certainty of His word that He will never leave or forsake His people.
Ezekiel’s circumstances did not change as he lived and preached God’s Word throughout the dark days of Babylonian captivity. On earth, it appeared that pagans ruled. But God assured Ezekiel that He rules in heaven and determines all the events on earth. It is for us to know that God is on the same throne... Continue Reading
The Shared Priority of American Evangelicalism and the Medieval Papacy
It's the fear-driven compromise of biblical standards that concerns me. It always corrupts.
I am not objecting to political engagement and seeking the common good (biblically defined) of our earthly nations in whatever way our earthly citizenship allows. My issue is with evangelicals falling into the same trap that the medieval Roman church leadership fell into, namely prioritizing the gaining of secular political power at any cost. It’s... Continue Reading
On the Apostle Paul’s Above Reproach Criterion
When we consider whether the Apostle’s above reproach criterion allowed for individualized judgments about fitness for eldership when it came to men experiencing homosexual inclinations, we have to deny that claim and oppose those who affirm it.
When weighing the question of whether a man who experiences same-sex inclination should be ordained to or remain in the eldership of the PCA, it seems prudent to begin with the premise that evaluation of a man for office will include but will not be limited to his self-description. In addition, his doctrine and practice... Continue Reading
Too Good to be True
God’s promise of salvation through His Son is the greatest promise in all history – and it is very true!
God’s mercy to sinners like me is too glorious for our feeble minds to fully understand but we can know it truthfully and sufficiently because God has revealed Himself to us in the Scripture. The all powerful and all knowing Creator of all things and Redeemer of His people looks down upon sinful men and... Continue Reading
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