Category Archives: church

Apostasy and Perseverance?

There are two errors to make on this question, and a razor’s edge to walk to answer it correctly. Just as the Bible teaches both divine sovereignty and human responsibility, so it also teaches both that apostasy is real, and … Continue reading

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The Gospel of Marx?

Does Jesus’s Compassion For the Poor Mean We Should Support the Welfare State? Absolutely not. First, while we ought to acknowledge that Jesus surely had compassion for some poor, and in turn that this same compassion is part and parcel … Continue reading

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Love Letters

It is a strange habit, though I am often caught in its grip. Why is it, I wonder, that we find ourselves so often longing for those days of the early church? Where did we begin to confuse the descriptive … Continue reading

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M-M-M-My Corona

As I type I’m on day 4 of quarantine. My precious wife is on day 2. This go around has already proven to be significantly less intense than the first one. Still unpleasant mind you, but not like the first … Continue reading

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Beauty and the Best

There is a tension among God’s people that reflects a delicate balance to which the Bible calls us. Paul, you recall, argued that in his passion for the gospel, he wished to be all things to all men, that by … Continue reading

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Every Man a Liar

People lie. Cretans lie. Anglos lie. African Americans lie. Accusers lie. The accused lie. Friends of both lie. One of the things we lie about is what we truly believe. Those who say that racism is dead are lying. Those … Continue reading

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What is wrong with anonymous social media accounts?

To grasp what is wrong with them we first must ask what the benefit is. That is, why would a person want to have an anonymous account? I can think of two reasons, though of course there may be more. … Continue reading

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Our Mission? Submission

It is a rather tedious and tiresome thing to pull the legs out from under our national confession. Our country’s creed is not just internally inconsistent, nor is it just incomprehensible, it is both these things. That is, it does … Continue reading

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Meat, Idols and Sins, Oh My

Do Christians have a moral obligation to boycott companies that support unbiblical causes? No. Christians, of course disagree on this. And when we disagree we can usually expect someone to trot out the whole “meat offered to idols” and weaker … Continue reading

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Good News

I’ve got great news — I just saved a bundle on my car insurance. This pop-cultural punchline might just expose a real problem we have in our Christian sub-culture: we don’t know what the good news is. The confusion, from … Continue reading

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