Is it hypocritical for Evangelicals to passionately advocate the sanctity of life in the womb and simultaneously support the state sponsored taking of a human life? I have personally known many a people, to include several professing Evangelicals, who would take such a position. I have personally witnessed Evangelicals bombastically attempt to point out… Continue Reading
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men (Matt. 5:13). Thiswell-known and oft-quoted verse from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is the locus of my blog article… Continue Reading
What happened to us, fathers? Where did we take the wrong turn, husbands? Who has bewitched us (to use the words of the Apostle Paul) that we have to always display our feminine side, sons? How have been with intoxicated to not celebrate virtues like virility, brothers. I am so tired engaging with… Continue Reading
Happy Wife, Happy life! As ubiquitous as this expression seems to be in the cultural dialect you would think it finds it source directly from the Bible. It would seem to be sure it would be found in red letters because it could be traced to something Jesus Christ said directly, maybe as part of… Continue Reading
We all know someone who began strong and bold but waned over time. We all have met someone and they seemed to be “the one” only to quickly (and unfortunately sometimes not quick enough) find out they were not the one. I have experienced several times while teaching JROTC cadets who started out like gangbusters.… Continue Reading
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I… Continue Reading
I believe it to be of no small consequence the Bible chooses to express the following sentiment in the precise order that it does: Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ (ESV, Ephesians 4:15, emphasis mine). The emphasis or stress… Continue Reading
We are often intimidated by big words and in the field of theology there are plenty of words where even the average Evangelical or religious person would posit no understanding. Soteriology is one such word. Soteriology concerns the biblical doctrine of salvation. It is no small, pedantic issue of consequence. Martin Luther believed this doctrine… Continue Reading
