Read Mt. 1:22-2:12 Sometimes in conversation, we find ourselves talking about a great person, and after extolling his/her virtue, it is pointed out that this great person has remarkable humility or compassion to supplement his greatness. The compliment will then…
Read Matthew 1:18-25 If you were God and you were sending your Son into the world to save the world . . . into what kind of family would you send your chosen Son? Some might expect God to have…
“To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen” (Rev. 1:5-6). I have…
Thomas Brooks, in his work The Secret Key to Heaven, gives a brief but wonderful insight into the nature of true prayer. He writes, God looks not at the elegancy of your prayers, to see how neat they are; nor…
Read Matthew 1:18-25 No dad would believe it. Sure, dads are gullible at times, but if your teenage daughter came to you and said, “I’m carrying a child, and I have not had sexual relations,” you’d be furious. That, however,…
This article is the final enstallment of an on-going series. Read part 1 here, and part 2 here. Another curious development is the ease with which evangelicals use worldview thinking to forge political alliances unimaginable to an earlier generation of…
Read: Matthew 1:1-17 Most of us race through the Bible like a computer spell check program. When we read the Bible that way—blazing through as quickly as we can, as if a prize were given to the one who finishes…
This article is part of an on-going series. Read Part 1 here. After Kuyper, Augustine’s distinction between the city of God and the city of man need not be so pronounced in the conservative Protestant imagination. In the 20th century…
Anyone who pays attention to Christianity in the United States cannot help but notice the proliferation of organizations claiming to promote a Christian worldview. Sometimes called cultural apologetics and often called ministry, worldview theology found a fast market in evangelical…
2014 is sure to be greeted with numerous attempts to turn over a new leaf. Every year we hear the calls for New Year’s resolutions. Since we are clearing the slate, desiring to make a new start, it makes sense…
