"Love" is not something we are given apart from Jesus Christ. Neither is it something we can give apart from Christ. Love in us is our emulation of God's love.
All in Culture
Liberalism: Defined By Its Starting Point
Liberty and equality for the sake of liberty and equality cannot sustain itself. Liberty and equality must be for something, it must be toward something.
Church Calendars, National Calendars, & Hallmark Calendars
Individual choice, instant gratification, and sensory titillation are stalwarts in the American church because they are stalwarts in American secularism: the true enculturating power behind much of American Christianity. The church has been called to be a new world within the bounds of an old world. Yet we seem to content ourselves with the ways and world of the first Adam even while we are called to pray for the kingdom of the second Adam to come on Earth as it is in heaven.
Sluggish Imaginations
The task of our day, much like C.S. Lewis proposed in The Abolition of Man, is a recovery of the imagination. Modern culture has indoctrinated us from our earliest years that the world is a powerful and pointless machine that cannot be stopped. All too often we do not have the imaginative powers to overcome this lie. But the first step to overcoming all evils is to see the evil for what it is. Perhaps Christians will begin to heed the warnings of the likes of Eliot, Percy, and Lewis and question whether they have succumb to the numbness of Modernity and their imaginations too are sluggish.
Pardon My Sneezes
Pardon my sneezes, but like Detective Del Spooner, "I'm allergic to bullsh*t."
We Should First Ask: "Which State"
In almost all modern discussions of the relationship between church and
Catcher in the Rye: A Blind Test of Beer
My heart was left in rye-francisco. I began my infatuation with rye beers after putting pieces together.
Salvation Must Take a Social Form
If Christians begin to think this way about salvation then there is a strong chance the vitality and centrality of the church would not be overlooked as it so often is in our individualistic culture.
through a glass, darkly
These are beers of such profound flavor, they deserve your undivided attention. Save these for after dinner, because with ABVs this high, you'll need to have food in your stomach or else you're going to be wobbling.
An Overdue Recap on Creation Week
Now that the review has published it is time for me to recap some thoughts on the books in general and their contributions to Genesis 1-2 and the fight for a historical Adam.
Uniquely "Me" Because of "You"
We are all uniquely individual. But our unique individuality can only be understood as it is born through the indwelling of others (like mothers through whom we are literally born).
The World is "Ready to Hand"
We are more-fully immersed and integrated into this world than our Descartian thinking-habits would like to admit.
"You" Before "I"
The consequences are dire when the church adopts a modern/liberal anthropology to determine it’s ecclesiology and discipleship. Unfortunately, this is the case in all too many churches. In many
Nine? Try NoMarks: A Response to Jonathan Leeman (Part 2)
The Scriptures teach moral responsibility from the womb. They teach faith from the womb. God can save at any age because salvation is a restored relationship to God not one's mental comprehension of Him.
Nine? Try NoMarks: A Response to Jonathan Leeman (Part 1)
With respect to Leeman's attempt at piety over the role parents I wish he would quote some Scripture. Instead I will mention some.
Unto the Glory of God
The goal for Christians should always be, first and foremost, to be Godly people no matter what systems they find themselves in. At the same time, Christians should never be content to allow faithlessness toward God to exist in systemic ways.
The Temple of Creation and Female Priests
Eve was a priest.
Interstellar, Relativity and the Age of the Earth
The Bible gives us God's account of the creation of the world. It took him seven days to do it. Are these days like the days we currently experience? Probably not. Are we even capable of putting the days of creation under our proverbial microscopes? Again, probably not. At this
Why I Defended Myself in Court and You Should Too
If we truly are the land of the free and the home of the brave maybe it's time we actually started being brave.
In Defense of Utopia
If our vision of the good life is shaped after God’s vision for the world then we will be shaped into the kinds of people that can righteously inhabit that kingdom.