If the Bible is unreliable in what it teaches about these things, the church is left to speculate and has nothing of value to speak to the world.
If I think of the ballot as a potential bullet, I will be more careful when I vote. The word vote comes from the Latin word votum, which means will. When I cast my vote, I express my will. Indeed, if...
If God knows what I’m going to say before I say it, His knowledge, rather than limiting my prayer, enhances the beauty of my praise.
If God crushes us in godly sorrow, it is an act of sheer grace. It’s His act of mercy to bring us to faith and conversion.
I would counsel her to maintain the pregnancy on the grounds that the developing baby within her is a co-victimof the rapist's heinous crime. To kill the fetus, who is innocent of the offense, is to a...
I love the church. It is the body of Christ. It nurtures my soul and aids in my sanctification. But the church cannot redeem me. Christ and Christ alone can save me. The sacraments are precious to me....
I am saying it must be good that evil exists, because God sovereignly, providentially ordains only what is good. In terms of His eternal purpose, God has esteemed it good that evil should be allowed t...
Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His...
Guilt is fundamentally a depressant. It squelches any feeling of well-being. It robs us of peace. It torments our souls. It is probably the most significant barrier to real joy. Thus, when our guilt i...
God’s grace is resistible in the sense that we can and do resist it. It is irresistible in the sense that it achieves its purpose. It brings about God’s desired effect.
God's people likely will not receive the world's adulation, but we will someday hear the words, Well done, good and faithful servant.
God's holiness is more than just separateness. His holiness is also transcendent. The word transcendence means literally to climb across. It is defined as exceeding usual limits. To transcenc is to ri...
God we seek. To try to look behind the veil at what God has not been pleased to reveal is to tamper with holy things that are out of bounds.
God did not sanction it, but He did not stop it. In choosing not to stop it, He ordained it.
First, they stopped thanking Him for His provision. Second, they stopped asking Him for His provision. Third, they began grumbling about His provision. Finally, they began reminiscing about how good t...
Feminists need to ask why the sexist establishment supports abortion. It may be that abortion enhances the male's freedom to exploit by sparing him from the worry ofpaternity.-Bill Crouse
Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God.
Every time the gospel has been proclaimed boldly and accurately in church history, there has been persecution. Every time the church speaks out to confront ungodliness in the culture, there is a backl...
Even if it cannot beproven that a fetus is an actual living human person, there is no doubt that it is a potential living human person. In other words, a fetus is a developing person. It is not in a f...
Easy believism is a modern form of the ancient heresy of antinomianism.