A Superb Public Statement on Marriage, Sex, and Identity
This declaration adds something very significant to the public witness of the church.
The declaration is packed with helpful lines of thought for preachers to plunder and start using in their preaching, for Christians to absorb into their thinking and impress upon their children, and for us to start using in our conversations with a world very, very confused and on this issue. The Greater Love Declaration is a... Continue Reading
On Sadness In the PCA: A Response to TE LeCroy’s ‘Sad Day’
We should not allow wrongdoers to depart imagining themselves as victims rather than perpetrators; the fact stands against the PCA that it failed to punish wrongdoing effectively.
The answer for the church is not to allow its property to be used to celebrate and encourage such a destructive social phenomenon but to persist in telling the truth that God has ordained a definite order for human life, and that all things which run counter to that ensnare people in destructive falsehood and... Continue Reading
How To Trim Down a Sermon
Sermons that are over-stuffed end up becoming less clear to the congregation.
If you keep “glorifying God through faithful and clear communication of your text” as the goal of your preaching, then trimming down your sermon can become just another act of faithfulness and worship. For me, the hardest part of preparing a teaching or sermon is figuring out what information to leave out. Cutting down a sermon... Continue Reading
Though Not Victorious, the Christian Right’s Consistent Resistance to Child Sexualization Has Been Vindicated
Though Christian belief and community are not necessary for morality and human flourishing, they are often essential to helping people live by them.
Christians may be a genuinely prophetic voice against the injustices of our culture. We may need to sharpen some critiques, such as those against current manifestations of greed, while on others, such as those related to sex and gender, we need the courage to continue to proclaim Biblical truth against the cultural tide. The... Continue Reading
Is Cultural Christianity Enough?
On Establishment (that which must not be named)
So-called cultural Christianity is and has been a good, the demise of which is lamentable. Again, the question for the merely cultural Christian party is what means are necessary and sufficient to produce the spontaneous and voluntarist cultural revival they seek? Do the formative powers ordained by God have any role therein? At least at present, this is... Continue Reading
The Death of Football—and Common Sense, Sanity, and Reality
The madness is now complete.
What is wrong with these people? Their brainwashing and indoctrination is now fully complete. They cannot think straight and they no longer know the difference between reality and fantasyland. And they write and say all this crapolla with a perfectly straight face! This really is the end of Australia and the West. In an... Continue Reading
Who Knows Best? The Push to Replace Parents
Social revolutionaries who want doctors or teachers or bureaucrats to step between parents and children on sexual issues are revealing their hostility not only to parental rights but to human nature and how we were created.
Social revolutionaries who want doctors or teachers or bureaucrats to step between parents and children on sexual issues are revealing their hostility not only to parental rights but to human nature and how we were created. This deeply misguided agenda will only cause children harm in the end. In internet lingo, to “say the quiet... Continue Reading
No, It Is Not Good for Man to Be Alone
Contrary to what the media want you to believe, it is not desirable to live alone without obligations or responsibilities.
A Christian community will seek to share the benefits and burdens of both family and single life. This is because Christianity knows that it is not good for man to be alone and that the deepest fulfillment and joys of this life are found in human relationships. It is bad that Americans are increasingly... Continue Reading
“Stochastic Terror”: Truth Is Not Violence
In a culture so captive to a “critical theory mood,” the only right and loving response to the hijacking of language is to oppose falsehood and advance truth.
In a turn that Orwell warned us about, dissent is considered danger, words are violence, opinions are hate, and yesterday’s truths are today’s terror. Tragedies and crises become crass opportunities to promote a viewpoint. We need not prove our ideological enemy is guilty of a crime, only that they’re on the wrong side of history. On Thanksgiving... Continue Reading
When Identity Politics Consumes Theology
We all must avoid the temptation to try to make Jesus in our own image.
That some now need to be able to see Jesus as female to see him as savior is nothing more than the assertion that his first-century Jewish human nature is insufficient for our present purposes. It is to demand that he be made in our image, rather than us in his. The recent outcry... Continue Reading
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