Social Media Is a Neighborhood Built on Coveting

Justin Poythress
Aug 2, 2022
Every place has a feel, an impression or characteristic sensation. Home has a feel, even if it isn’t always positive. The neighborhood you grew up in has a feel. The noisy main street of your urban center has perhaps a collection of feels depending on the hour or day. Then there’s the shaded path...

Whose Sanctification Is It, Anyway?

Jeffery Smith
Jul 25, 2022
In the New Testament, the word often translated as “sanctification” is sometimes translated, “holiness.” The Greek is hagiasmos (ἁγιασμὸς), the noun form of the verb “to sanctify,” “to make holy” ( hagiazo , ἁγιάζω). The basic meaning of the verb is to set apart from that which is common or unclean...
I Feel the Need...for Creeds!

I Feel the Need...

Mortification of Spin
Jul 20, 2022
Iceman and Maverick ( aka J.V. Fesko and Craig Carter) are feeling the need…the need for creeds . Though neither will claim the title of “top gun,” both will speak of the necessity of creeds in the life of the Church as they headline the 2022 Prince George’s Conference on Reformed Theology in...
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Replanting Our Churches

Jason Carter
Jul 18, 2022
Every church in America is now a church re-plant. This is a hard truth, but healthy churches will own it, while those who ignore it will be walking down the path towards a painful decline. American Christianity has learned numerous lessons during the past 25 months: live stream, zoom meetings, and...

Ecclesial Disobedience

Brad Isbell
Jul 15, 2022
While civil disobedience may sometimes be acceptable in the socio-political sphere, ecclesial disobedience (especially on the part of church officers) is only justified in the most extreme cases. If defying or ignoring church law makes a sort of sense in congregationalism (where the majority/mob...

Envy and the Megachurch

Justin Poythress
Jul 8, 2022
“You shall not covet…” — Deuteronomy 5:21 “Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor” (Ecc 4:4). Really? All toil? All skill? All driven by envy? What would that say about your ministry? It would say that your ministry (yes, yours ), is in your own human...
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Jesus and the God of Classical Theism

Mortification of Spin
Jul 6, 2022
From his high perch within a “boutique denomination,” Carl feels comfortable taking shots at Todd and the much larger PCA. With the sniping finally in check, the didactic duo brings aboard a special guest. Dr. Steven Duby is the author of Jesus and the God of Classical Theism: Biblical Christology...
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Justifying Revolution

Adam Parker
Jul 4, 2022
Gary L. Steward, Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy’s Argument for Political Resistance, 1750-1776 (New York, NY; Oxford University Press, 2021), 232 pages, Hardcover. $74 The subject of submission and resistance to political authorities is an evergreen issue. No matter where one stands on...

My Reconstructed Faith

Philip Ryan
Jul 4, 2022
Among the ever-growing list of controversies and threats to Christ’s church, the disturbance of deconstruction looms large. Over the past two years, we have all seen and listened to many stories of deconstruction from authors, musicians, and even YouTube personalities. Sadly, these stories are...

Rules of Engagement

Ben Franks
Jun 30, 2022
Quite a lot has happened in the last week, hasn't it? The recent ruling of the Supreme Court has pushed central questions back into the public conversation - questions like: What makes human life valuable? How do we know right from wrong? Are we as individuals (and a society) subject to God's...