To listen to this as a podcast, click here In my previous post, we looked at humanism as an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather […]
“Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it” (Luke 17:33). Four summers ago, the summer of 2012, I read the biography […]
“The scepter of wickedness shall not remain over the land of the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to do wrong” (Ps. 125:3). Lord, You […]
God’s supreme objective is the establishment of His kingdom on earth. Jesus told His disciples to pray this way: “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it […]
Gay author and activist Bruce Bawer left the US to escape what he described as the influence of conservatism and Christianity. Moving to Europe to live with his lover, he […]
In C.S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the Narnian mouse Reepicheep says of Lucy, “She’s not a little girl! She is a queen!” The statement serves as a […]
In understanding our identity and authority in Christ, we are able to bring His righteous and life-giving government to earth. Previously, we highlighted what it means to be in covenant […]
In my last post, we examined the nature of covenant. The Hebrew word used for covenant is beriyth and means “alliance,” “constitution,” or “pledge.” It goes deeper, however, than our […]
“I wish Christians in the West understood their position better – who they are in Christ,” a brother from India responded when I asked him what was the greatest difference […]
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root,” said Henry David Thoreau. The American philosopher rightfully pointed out the wasted […]
Friends of ours who live in an eastern country described once how pictures of that nation’s king hang in every public place – in bakeries and boutiques, and even at […]