Facing Up To Sex Trafficking
Sex trafficking is the work of the devil, and it’s all around you. KIM’S STORY With some caution, and even reluctance, let me offer you a very concrete and very […]
Jesus’ Church Is Here To Stay
The most famous and influential creed in the history of the Christian faith, the Nicene Creed, contains a line that modern Christians sometimes misunderstand: “I believe in one holy catholic and […]
Love
Everyone agrees that love is a good thing. Love is often a very feel-good topic. But if we look at Scripture, we find something disturbing: love is actually a big […]
Jesus Was Not The First Christian: Machen On The Person of Christ
This is the fifth installment in our seven-part seriesbased on J. Gresham Machen’s seminal work,Christianity and Liberalism (1923). This post covers Chapter 5, which shows how theological liberalism diverges from Christianity in its […]
Scripture Is True: Machen On The Bible
This is the fourth installment in our seven-part series based on J. Gresham Machen’s seminal work, Christianity and Liberalism (1923). In the book, still relevant almost a century later, Machen contrasts the modernist theological liberalism of his […]
We Are Not God: Machen On Humanity
This is the third installment in our seven-part series based on J. Gresham Machen’s seminal work, Christianity and Liberalism (1923). In the book, still relevant almost a century later, Machen contrasts the modernist theological […]
The Ultimate Theophany
The topic of theophanies is often neglected in biblical and theological studies, though it is very important. Theophanies are instances of divine self-revelation in which God manifests himself to humans. […]
The Five Solas of the Reformation
The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century changed Christianity forever. Roused to action by the corruption and abuses they saw in the Roman Catholic church of the time, visionary pastors and […]
The Father of Fathers
As we approach Father’s Day, it is worth stepping back and considering the original father, God the Father, “from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named” (Eph. […]
Good Ethics Don’t Make A Christian: Machen On Doctrine
This is the second installment in our seven-part series based on J. Gresham Machen’s seminal work, Christianity and Liberalism (1923). In the book, still relevant almost a century later, Machen contrasts the modernist theological […]