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 Christian books (mostly) that I have read and have helped me immensely to think through things from...
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...
Sometimes, those who think they are courageous, aren't, and those who think they're not cowards, are. Courage is a Christian duty that is often neglected and cowardice is a damnable sin that is often committed. To Kill a Mockingbird has a great line about courage: “I wanted you to see what real...
In this series of Greek exegesis articles, we take a passage of the New Testament and analyse the Greek to see what insights we can draw from the text that may not be obvious in our English translations. These articles tend to be a bit more academic in nature (including footnotes and commentary...
This last article in this series considers now how do we form a distinctly Christian worldview. This is part of the “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” from the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20) that Jesus gave to us. This implies the formation of a distinctly Biblical and...