How can we be sure that we are saved? This is an important and sometimes challenging question for Christians. We are saved by grace through faith alone but sometimes our indwelling sin continues to harass us on the road to holiness and we struggle with knowing for sure that we are saved. I believe this …
“By This We Know”: Assurance of Faith in John’s Epistles Read More »
The body of Christ is one body. It has many members but it is not many bodies. It is a matter of “many” making up “one”. As I wrote about last week, the oneness and unity of Christ’s body, the Church, is a central part of our identity as the people of God. God’s kingdom …
The themes of the book of Genesis are many. There are many threads that one can trace through the narrative that tie the book together. One that I want to focus on in this article is the theme of enmity and reconciliation between brothers. This theme of enmity between brothers hits us almost right out …
In the past few articles in this series we have viewed union with Christ through a particularly objective and Pauline lens. We have examined what the Bible, particularly Paul’s writings, have to say about our objective and covenantal union with Christ in His life, death, and resurrection and what this means for us today. In …
In the introduction to this series on union with Christ, we examined the covenantal structure of God’s dealing with humanity and humanity’s standing before God. There are two options: either we are “in Adam”, represented by him and inheriting his guilt and condemnation, or we are “in Christ”, united to Him as a covenantal representative …
Alive to God in Christ Jesus (Union With Christ Pt. 2) Read More »
Last week, I began a two-part look at the crisis that faces our culture’s young men: a crisis of disillusion, disengagement, and disastrous despair. I proposed that to fight this crisis, we need to stand on four integrated pillars which themselves sit upon the solid foundation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Those four pillars …
About a month ago, I wrote about the dilemma of Christians in modern culture, particularly young men caught in the crosshairs between feminism and the occasionally-chauvinistic reaction to it. The conclusion I came to was that we needed to, as Christians, be faithful to follow Christ in His beautifully paradoxical nature and calling. Essentially, we …
Our cultural moment right now is an interesting one. There is a trend in our culture towards a bubble-wrapped society that is entirely safe and simultaneously entirely restrained. Sensitivity is the highest form of virtue, according to this trending ethos. We would rather lose our freedom to speak uncomfortable truth freely than face the discomfort …
“Red-Pilled” in Cancel Culture: Why We Must Know and Follow the “Whole” Christ Read More »
We are told in Scripture to “discipline [ourselves] for the purpose of Godliness” (1 Tim. 4:7). Among the many spiritual disciplines that Christians utilize in their pursuit of Godliness, things like prayer, meditation, Bible-reading, and fasting usually top the list. These are all worthwhile endeavors but I believe there is another very important discipline for …
Pilgrimage is an ancient ritual in many religious traditions. It is often a mark of religious devotion. The faithful adherent travels many arduous miles to reach a site of importance to their religion. In Islam, the hajj to Mecca is one of the five pillars of the Muslim religion. Medieval Christians crossed Europe and Western …
