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God’s Promise in Habakkuk to Fill the Earth with the Knowledge of his Glory
I recently read The Puritan Hope by Ian H. Murray, and we can sure use a lot more Puritan hope in the church today. In it he describes how the Puritans of the 16th through the 18th centuries had a passion for seeing the Great Commission fulfilled in due course because...
Evangelicals and Their Ambivalence to God’s Law
I’m currently reading Greg Bahsen’s Theonomy in Christian Ethics, an extensive study about God’s law (theos-nomos) as it applies to ethics, the study of the principles of right and wrong conduct. We Evangelicals tend to have a love/hate relationship to God’s law. On...
Is the Phrase Christian Nation an Oxymoron?
Unfortunately, most of the modern conservative movement thinks so, including one of the most respected men in my conservative world, Hillsdale college President Larry Arnn. He said exactly this in a discussion on his podcast. Ironically, the title of the episode is,...
Articles on Theology
“I am the way, the truth, and the life . . . . ” Exclusive Claims are Not Unique to Jesus
These famous, infamous for some, words of Jesus are followed by a further claim that offends many: "No one comes to the Father except through me." This was just as offensive to people in the Jewish and Pagan environment of Jesus' day, as it is in the secular...
And ah for a man to rise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!
I recently came upon this quote from 19th century British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (from his poem Maud). I wonder how many people feel Tennyson's lament. I also wonder how many people understand that to be a follower of Jesus you must feel this way. What? You mean I...
The Ministry of Right Relationship: Love in Action
The older I get, the more I realize why Jesus said that the law and the prophets can all be summed up in . . . . love. The problem with love, "twue wove," is that it's hard, as in really difficult. That's because love means a certain dying to self, and we fallen,...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Ashley Madison: Men Acting Like (Sinful) Men
As shocking as it may seem, a website dedicated to helping people find extra-marital dalliances is used almost only by men! Who could have seen that coming. The tag line for the Ashley Madison website, much in the news this past week or so, is, "Life is Short. Have an...
What the Heck is Natural Law Anyway?
At the website of the Theopolis Institute a piece was recently posted by Mark Horne with the curious title, "If There is 'Natural Law' How Can People Believe in Same-Sex Marriage?" I say curious because I'm not sure why five lawyers in black robes declaring gender...
Yes, Atheists Can Be Fine Upstanding Citizens, and Here’s Why
I was looking for a quotation allegedly by G.K. Chesterton (I haven't been able to find where it came from) to the effect that when people don't believe in God it isn't that they believe nothing, but that they will believe anything. We can see throughout history where...
Articles on Culture
Notable Quotation
I signed the Nashville Statement because I stand with Biblical orthodoxy, which is inseparable from God’s creation mandate and definition of gendered personhood found in Genesis 1:27: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and...
Queens of the Stone Age – The Vampyre Of Time And Memory -Searching But Never Finding . . .
My teenage music obsessed son shared this song from Queens of the Stone Age with me, and I was haunted by the lyrics. Human beings are really good at rejecting any ultimate meaning in the universe, but spending their life searching for it. Never finding. The lyrics of...
Popular Christian author thinks it takes ‘moxie’ to get your books banned
We live in convoluted times, where we're supposed to believe what is up is down, what is black is white, and where the only thing we can say is wrong are people who say things are wrong. This is especially true when it comes to the issues of sexuality in Western...
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