Pride Won’t Get Us Where We’re Going

Grayson Walker
Jun 30, 2022
The church follows what God has said in Scripture, which is “profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Tim. 3:16). To do this in any meaningful sense, Scripture must be both clearly expounded and applied. As Elizabeth Charles said, “Where the battle...

Is Church Growth Desirable or Dangerous? Yes.

Adam Parker
Jun 29, 2022
When it comes to church growth, virtue really is a mean between extremes. It is right for churches to avoid falling into an implicit prosperity gospel, thinking that faithfulness will necessarily lead to obvious financial and numerical increase. It is also important, however, for churches to be...

How the Chosen Gets It Right

Louis Markos
Jun 24, 2022
From Cecil B. de Mille’s silent epic King of Kings (1927) to Mel Gibson’s intense and bloody Passion of the Christ (2004), movies about Jesus have always provoked controversy. In the 1940s, when Dorothy Sayers wrote a series of radio plays on the life of Christ for the BBC called The Man Born to Be...

Pastor, Preach Repentance

Jeremy Walker
Jun 24, 2022
True repentance grows in the gospel soil of God’s sovereign grace. Its roots comprise both biblically-informed grief over sin and biblically-informed apprehension of God’s mercy in Christ. Its trunk and branches are turning from sin and turning to God. Its fruit is the endeavor for new obedience in...

Should Anyone Cause These Little Ones to Stumble...

Mortification of Spin
Jun 22, 2022
After revisiting the “trouser color” debate of 2019 (Carl claims a sort of “sartorial panache”), our hosts settle into a more serious discussion. A rather high-profile government appointee publicly displays what is—to most—a rather deplorable lifestyle. Should the Christian say nothing about what...
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Yes, I Am a Single-Issue Voter

Stephen Spinnenweber
Jun 20, 2022
If you have ever been called a “single-issue voter,” chances are it was not meant as a compliment. “Single-issue voter” is to political discourse what “flat-earther” is to scientific discourse—a label for low intelligence. The sins commonly associated with single-issue voting are narrow-mindedness...

He Is Our Near Kinsman

Barry Waugh
Jun 17, 2022
The title of Leon Wood’s book, The Distressing Days of the Judges , well describes Israel’s troubled era from the death of Joshua to the coming of Samuel. Judges records the cyclical pattern of Israel’s sin with foreign nations as it worshipped their gods, was enticed by their goods and women, and...

The Glory of the Benediction

Ryan Biese
Jun 15, 2022
When I was younger and growing up in a Lutheran congregation, I knew the worship service was almost over when the congregation sang a scripture song (canticle) that began : “Thank the Lord and sing His praise…” following the communion. On one occasion of singing this song, I remember leaning over...

More Than a Battle

Calvin Goligher
Jun 14, 2022
More Than a Battle: How to Experience Victory, Freedom, and Healing from Lust . By Joe Rigney. B&H Publishing, 2021. 224 pages, paper, $17.99. Joe Rigney has written an excellent book for men who are dealing with the sin of pornography in their own lives or in the lives of other men. The book...

The Unforgivable Sin

Chris Marley
Jun 13, 2022
There are many difficult questions to answer in Christianity. Does God stand outside of time? What was Paul’s thorn in the flesh? Who really was the streaker in Mark’s gospel? But one that has always challenged me is the nature of the unforgivable sin. The Sin in Scripture In Luke 12:10, Jesus...