How the Most Devout Christians Are Saved
The apostle Paul—with all his devotion, leadership of churches, sufferings for Christ, brilliant theological letters, and missionary work in unreached areas—was saved by the same way as the thief on…
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Digital Images, Worship, and Joy
“Images have always become substitutes for God, and no age makes more images than our age,” writes Tony Reinke in his recent book Competing Spectacles (117). He’s right, but we…
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A Precious Verse That Has Helped in My Sweating Anxiety
Right away I’ll make this quite personal: For the last few years now I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating with anxiety. I’ve tried to track…
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How to Receive God’s Gifts for God’s Glory
The previous post discussed the two opposite ways we can receive God’s gifts. One one hand, God’s gifts can (ironically) lead us to turn from God, as we cherish the…
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Christian Living
God’s Gifts and Two Paths
When we receive gifts and blessings from God, there are two opposite ways our hearts can go. The gift is the same, but the paths lead to drastically different results.…
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Two Assumptions As We Navigate Sharing the Gospel
The previous post centered on how we must be careful to not wrongly emphasize eternal life in our evangelism to the point that we make Christ a mere means instead…
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Culture
A Possible Blockade on the Romans Road
Many of us are familiar with the Romans Road style of evangelism, as displayed here. With supporting Bible verses, this evangelistic technique attempts to show a way to receive the…
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We Live in a Fathered World
Tim Chester, in his 2018 book Enjoying God, uses the term “fathered world” frequently. It’s a helpful term. He uses it to explain how the world we live in—and each…
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What’s the Best Form of Government?: Why God Didn’t Give the Israelites a Constitutional Republic
Yesterday America celebrated its Independence Day. We honored the day we gained our freedom from the British monarchy, remembering the Declaration of Independence that upheld “Life, Liberty and the pursuit…
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Embracing Both Assurance and Warnings (and Hope for Those Who’ve Strayed)
In the previous post, using Solomon’s downfall as our backdrop, we considered how we as Christians a) have wonderful promises of assurance and b) should be fearful and take heed…
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