Theology That Bites Back
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord Jesus gives us an illustration of two houses—one built securely on a rock, and the other built on sand. From a distance, there was no real way to tell the essential difference between the two houses. In fact, we could easily imagine the house …
We have all had the experience of buying an appliance that we thought we understood, but then when we couldn’t get to work, we found that we had to finally, somewhat sheepishly, resort to the manual. ...
We live in egalitarian times, which means that there is a culture-wide antipathy toward any kind of authority. We are more deferential than we ought to be when it comes to raw power, or to grotesque manipulation, but we chafe at the very idea of authority. We don’t mind being played, but we do mind …
One of the things we should learn to pray for more earnestly is a particular manifestation of the grace of God. This manifestation is what I like to call Deuteronomic blessings. By this I mean nothing more than covenant blessings, but because we live in a radically gnostic age, and because we don’t want to …
The Christian community is made up of all kinds of people. God gathers His people from every tribe and nation, and He does so by means of the gospel. Each regenerated person is born again through the work of the Holy Spirit of God, and it is His marvelous work of re-creation that brings us …
In the Great Commission that the Lord Jesus gave to His disciples, He charged them, among other things, to teach the nations everything that He had commanded. We Christians have been pursuing this charge for two thousand years now, and we are a long way from completion. But we have been at it long enough …
Weddings happen all the time, and because they happen all the time, it is easy to miss how remarkable it all is. God is so good to us, and pours out so many blessings upon us, that our tendency is to take it all for granted, and to assume that His good gifts and graces …
One of the indications that we have drifted away from our biblical moorings can be seen in how we think of weddings as the simple possession of two individuals, dancing alone, instead of thinking of it ...
The creation of man was teleological, which is a fancy way of saying that God had a particular intention and purpose for us that is revealed in the way that He designed us. A screwdriver is teleological ...
We live in a generation that has lost all ability to define anything important. Those who cannot answer the question what is a woman? or what is a man? are certainly not in a position to define something like marriage. Not only can they not define this central human institution, but they are also not …
