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,…
Jonah’s Sin
End of the Story Unfortunately, for many, the significance of Jonah ends shortly after the fish spits him up. He rebelled against God and tried to run from responsibility but then God turned him around and set him back on the path. Then he delivers his message and the city repents! God relents of the…
Worst Kind of Fool
Harsh Word Anyone who has read through the wisdom literature in scripture knows that the word “fool” is a very harsh term. In fact, Proverbs says that corporal punishment is intended to be used in order to correct them as one would an animal. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and…
Trusting The Lord
Saul Couldn’t Wait In 1 Samuel 13, Saul was preparing for war with the Philistines. Samuel, the prophet, was to come and offer sacrifices on behalf of the people of Israel before the fighting began. He had been told to wait for 7 days for Samuel’s arrival, but people started leaving and he began to…