Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work
WILLPOWER IS WEAK There’s an assumption about human nature that is important to have in place as we think about New Year’s Resolutions: people do what they want to do. […]
Gospel-Driven Sanctification
People love rules. And rules make sense because they give us conditions. In essence, you could say we are natural-born legalists. It goes like this: if you do a, b, […]
The Bible Is Shockingly Honest and Gloriously Hopeful
I did an interview with Paul Tripp and we covered everything from dating to parenting and all the grace between. Background: · Paul Tripp’s Life: 0:20 · Daily Drive for […]
The Connection Between Halloween & Reformation Day
Why did Martin Luther nail his famous 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door on October 31, 1517? He was confronting two religious observances that promoted false saintliness and exploited […]
The Judaizers: Know the Heretics
The Rise of the Judaizers A problem arose in the early church when the apostles took the gospel of Jesus to Jews, Samaritans, and Gentiles. When Gentiles responded to the […]
What Would Luther Do?
In Martin Luther’s essay, “The Freedom of a Christian,” we read the following: “I believe that it has now become clear that it is not enough or in any sense […]
The Problem of Love
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself I have been studying these verses recently and thinking about the command to love one another and how that can actually happen. Romans 13:9—The commandments, […]
Follow Your Heart?
The Human Heart The popular mantra, “follow your heart,” assumes that we have inherent goodness deep inside us that we just need to express to others. John Keats wrote: “I […]