Loving God with Our Minds
Any consideration of the human mind, therefore, must begin with the understanding that by nature the mind does not love God at all.
The more we love God with our minds, the more we’ll be driven to do that other thing that is alien to us in our fallen condition, namely, to worship Him. To pursue God with our minds simply for intellectual enjoyment and without the ultimate purpose of loving and worshiping Him is to miss what... Continue Reading
Commit to Community
A church that exists only to convey information is not a faithful representation of a biblical church.
Churches must work to cultivate community. The signs are all around. Our world is lonely. People are crying out for community, relationships, and friends. In other words, people are longing for the things that churches are created to provide. Get busy. Here are a few steps you might take in your church to cultivate community:... Continue Reading
Three Scientific Discoveries that Call for a God Hypothesis
Tracing science from its theistic beginnings, Meyer shows how it gradually lost its way and became tethered to materialism.
Simply put, Dawkins got it wrong. The universe we live in has properties one would expect if it were, in fact, designed by a God who had us in mind when He made the place. As Meyer’s book shows, this assumption was an original conviction of many who launched and drove the scientific revolution. It’s... Continue Reading
‘Existential Threat’: CCCU Fights LGBT students’ Title IX Lawsuit Targeting Christian Colleges
The lawsuit claims that such policies at Christian schools led to the abuse and bullying of LGBT students. However, the CCCU has denied that claim.
Title IX of the Civil Rights Act forbids sex-based discrimination in education. Faith-based institutions that uphold biblical definitions for marriage and sexuality can request a religious exemption that allows them to adhere to scriptural beliefs on matters of sexuality. The legal challenge essentially seeks to restrict students at faith-based institutions that adhere to traditional sexuality and... Continue Reading
America’s Overseers: How the Example of Harvard Discredits the Meme of Black “Marginalization”
The entire notion of “marginalization” is inherently, down to its rotten core, all about putting on a show to mollify intemperate activists and lighten the load on the guilty consciences of wealthy white liberals.
For those interested in keeping score, what we have here, on one of the governing bodies of one of America’s most powerful institutions and its most readily recognized, most well-endowed university, is that white people, who represent over 76% of the American population, are under 37% of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, a percentage almost certain to diminish still... Continue Reading
Two Creation Accounts?
It is my claim that there cannot be a discrepancy in the text, if it is read carefully, and without an assumption of contradiction.
There is no need to interpret the text this way. Even though the word “formed” is a vayyiqtol (normal on-line narrative, normally denoting sequential action), the statement of forming could just as easily be a summation of days five and six as a statement of sequential order. The emphasis in the context is far more on... Continue Reading
What Does the Lord Require of Me? The Ten Commandments and Christian Ethics
Fundamentally, we ought to read the Ten Commandments as the instructions of a loving Father to his firstborn son.
These commandments show what God’s character is like — what he cares about and values, how he loves, and what he prioritizes. And they do so in order that God’s son — his people — will come to resemble and reflect him, to share his priorities and values, to join him in his loves and... Continue Reading
Amazing Grace for a Prodigal Pastor’s Kid
I painfully learned that drifting away from God is directly proportional to one’s misery. It would take twenty years for me to fully learn that lesson.
As soon as I cried out to him, the lowest level of despair turned to joy and hope. I was, like the psalmist says, lifted out of the miry clay I was wallowing in and set firmly upon solid rock. I was finally rescued. It was all because of grace; all because of God’s amazing... Continue Reading
Magnifying God in Music: A Lesson from the Life of Spurgeon
“Take every note in the music of your behavior and seek to make each note in harmony with its fellow, lest, after all, the psalm of your life may prove to be a hideous discord." - Spurgeon
Spurgeon knew the song of the Church should rightly magnify the Lord. While preaching to his congregation, he implored them to “mark how the music of the church is set to the same tune as that of heaven and earth — ‘Great God, thou art to be magnified.’” Their pastor understood God should not be magnified... Continue Reading
What’s an Exile to Do? Trust in Your God, Stand Firm in His Grace
We’re not alone as we stand at the margins. While standing there, we do so firmly, taking courage from others, like John Mark, Peter’s son in the faith
So, what’s an exile to do when pushed to the margins of public life, relegated to social-cultural, if not geographical exile? Trust in our invincible God, and stand firm in His grace. The hatred of the world, the fleshly desires at war with our souls, the roar of that diabolical lion—all “threaten to undo us. Did... Continue Reading
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