Introduction: According to the ancients, anger is a brief madness. This is certainly true if we are talking about carnal anger, about the anger of man. This kind of anger is akin to an eruption, and when it erupts, there are no boundaries. We use expressions like “blind with rage,” or “seeing red.” When in …
Athletics and Christian Community #7
Introduction: God created mankind with a thirst for glory. We do not fulfil our creational purpose apart from glory. The very definition of sin is to fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23). Because ...
Athletics and Christian Community #6
Introduction: Learning to be a Christian athlete involves more than simply being a Christian and also being an athlete. What we are after is for those two words (and worlds) to intersect, such that ...
Who Needs Whom?
The first letter in this series can be found here. Tyler, Well, that was a really interesting report. I have to say that you have had yourself a couple of weeks. As anticipated, you did have ...
Loving the Standard
Introduction: When it comes to parenting, our parental responsibility does not consist in getting young people to grit their teeth and conform to the standard. The task before us is to bring up our children in such a way as to love the standard. This is not possible to do with externally driven rules. It …
Athletics and Christian Community #5
Introduction: We all have a very natural tendency to become evangelists for things we love. This applies obviously to evangelism in the gospel, but we also tend to become very “evangelical” about anything we care deeply about. This can apply to a great restaurant you found, a hot band you discovered, a wonderful book you …
Athletics and Christian Community #4
Introduction One of the most natural and valuable affections that we find in the created order is the affection that parents have for their children. It is good and right and noble. God compares ...
How Post-Mill Figures into It
These were my intro comments during the Christian nationalism round table discussion. On the one hand, it is truly admirable when a man knows what his duty is, and simply does it, regardless of whether ...
Athletics and Christian Community #3
Introduction: We have already noted that egalitarianism is a problem in conservative Christian circles, particularly when it comes to the realities of meritocracy that athletic competition forces us ...
King of the Jews
Dear Ehud, We have considered Christ in His offices of prophet and priests, and so we come now to the third one—the office of king. In His trial before the Sanhedrin, Jesus was convicted ...





