We live in an age of novelty and 3-second attention spans, where the shelf life for social media content is shorter than a snowflake’s ego in a microwave or a politician’s memory of their campaign promises. For many in the younger generation who have grown up steeped in such a shallow pool of...
Paul's high Christological Hymn in Colossians 1 is the main focus of this article. It is quite possibly one of my favourite texts of the letters of Paul. Hopefully by the end, you will also—but we should first establish some context. Paul was writing to the church in Colossae, in response to...
Many Christians today function as "New Testament Only" Christians. They apply little to no effort to understand the Old Testament and its application to our lives today. After all, we now have Jesus and the New Testament... so out with the old and in with the new, right? Ironically, the novel...
There are many “gospels” out there today. But what is the true, Biblical Gospel? There is a lot of confusion about what the Gospel is—both among non-Christians and even among Christians. Some reject the Gospel without really knowing what it is. Others think they know what it is but believe a false...
In our last few articles in this series unpacking some of the insights of the book The Coddling of the American Mind and considering them in light of Biblical truth. We looked at the untruths of fragility and emotional reasoning. In this article, we will take a look at the final untruth Lukianoff...
We saw in Part 1 the effect of the shift from considering intent to focusing primarily on the felt (subjective) impact of an offensive act or speech. What about the question of whether people are inherently fragile or not? Is there validity to the growing trend of ‘safetyism’? In this article, we...
Every Christian should be a reader—we are after all a people of the Book! So, here are my choices for must-have Christian books for your personal, church or Christian library. These are all the best (mostly) Christian books that I have read that have helped me immensely to think through things...
Why is the Evangelical church today so effeminate? Why do we have pastors in skinny jeans with V-necks deeper than their theology pandering to feminists, leading woke lament sessions and singing Jesus-is-my-boyfriend style songs? Why is it that the vast majority of congregations today are heavily...
There has been a decisive shift in out culture towards emotional hypersensitivity, politically correct monitored speech, emotional fragility and outrage at anyone who would raise issues or disagreements with the prevailing norms and accepted truisms of our day. Many within the new generation...
https://youtu.be/652q9x1vYew If you prefer to listen on audio, you can do that below or on APPLE or SPOTIFY. CLICK HERE to download the worksheet for the session. Below you will find my notes for this lecture which includes content I had to skip over in the live event. In Canada, since 2021 over...