Spiritual Children There is a quote which is often misused even by those who generally have a fairly accurate worldview and the best of intentions. Odds are you’ve seen it yourself. That quote is: Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it…
Conformed to Christlikeness
Image Bearers It is common for people to invoke the idea that mankind is made in the image of God, especially when defending human worth. However, it is far more rare for anyone to explore what it means for us to be his likeness. Most realize that this isn’t a matter of physical appearance and…
Toxic Empathy: Review
Author’s Intent This work, by Allie Beth Stuckey, is directed toward the church with a particular focus on discerning emotional manipulation in politics. As a Christian who initially struggled with responding to the appeals to emotion, she hopes to share with brothers and sisters what she eventually learned as a public speaker and debater about…
Fault Lines: Review
Author’s Intent Voddie Baucham Jr. is attempting to address the issue of Critical Race Theory from a Christian perspective. However, he has an even more interesting perspective on this topic. First, because he has studied sociology and these topics from that perspective. Second, his childhood in many ways reflects the very people that CRT purports…
All Authority
Purpose of Law In another post, I had written of the benefits of the commands of God being rightly applied. However, this time I’m going to focus in more upon where resistance to this comes from (especially within the church). Specifically, nearly everyone in America has a worldview that is a complete inversion of the…
Enabling Evil
Worse Than Ignoring In a previous post, I had written about the harm a person does when they attempt to be “personally pious” but not publicly righteous. That is, there are many things they would not do because it is evil but they offer no resistance to others doing them even when they have some…
Reasonable Service
Good Enough Many people live their lives believing that they are “basically good”. Sure, we all know there are cases where we could have done something better but people cannot be expected to be perfect! After all, we all make mistakes. With this view, God (if one even acknowledges his existence) must grade on a…
Itching Ears and Idle Hands
Being Doers The book of James is an antidote for a problem humanity has which has even been rebranded as if it were a Christian idea in modern times. Namely, that faith is about intellectual assent to certain ideas and not obedience. In a single verse, the topic of the book is: But be doers of…
Against the Waves: Review
Author’s Intent Jon Harris wrote this book to Christians who, aware of the issues of modern life (especially in the West), may not fully know how to shake the programming we’ve all grown up with. Much of the work is focused on challenging the standard mode of living many find themselves in today. Namely, that…
Unholy Like Esau
Things To Beware In the book of Hebrews, we are exhorted to take heart in our resistance to sin. We are encouraged by the fact that we are children of God, who took the form of man and suffered hostility at the hands of sinners as well. In our struggles as a church against sin,…