For quite a while my inner being has cringed during the times I hear Christians use the term “traditional marriage.” However, I have not been able to put my finger exactly on why, since I am a Christian who holds to the rich history of the reformation, and the sufficiency of Scripture. But lately, as […]
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Loved by God
I have begun to discover that the deeper I go into theology, the more simplistic my joy becomes. I am not saying that I find no joy in the thick of theology. What I mean is, the more you go into theology, the more amazing it is that we are loved by God. In the […]
The Surety of Acceptance
See Christ yonder, sitting at his Father’s right hand! Believer! He is the pledge of thy glorification; he is the surety of thine acceptance; and, moreover, he is thy representative. I imagine emotion oozing from Charles Spurgeon’s voice backed by unction from his gut, as he preached these words. Truer yet, I imagine a particular […]
The Gospel for Our Inconsistent Prayer Lives
For many Christians it seems that prayer is one of the most difficult disciplines to maintain. Often times, when things in our life are going well we tend to pray less, if at all. This is sin, and we know it. We know that we are to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5v17) in all […]
The Outrageousness of Jesus
Jesus is not tame, boring, or white. The Jesus of the Scriptures is uniquely fascinating. In a peculiar way, Matthew 21v18-22 stirs my affections for Jesus. In this text, Jesus acts rather outrageously – in a good way. It makes me think, “man, I love this guy.” Here’s the text: “In the morning, as he […]