Time governs our daily lives and is a fundamental reality in the world. Our lives and the world itself would cease to exist, at least as we know it, without time. Cultures throughout history have viewed time with different perspectives. Some have viewed time as linear, straight from beginning to end. Others have viewed time …
The Ends of the Ages: Inaugurated Eschatology & the Preeminence of Christ Read More »
The struggle of the Christian life can often be traced back to the struggle to live out our identity in Christ. So often our legalistic striving and our sin-laden self-condemnation is driven by a failure to grasp and live in our new identity as God’s children. As we’ve explored the theme of union with Christ …
Spiritual Blessings in the Beloved (Union with Christ Pt. 3) Read More »
In the introduction to this series on union with Christ, we examined the covenantal structure of God’s dealing with humanity and humanity’s standing before God. There are two options: either we are “in Adam”, represented by him and inheriting his guilt and condemnation, or we are “in Christ”, united to Him as a covenantal representative …
Alive to God in Christ Jesus (Union With Christ Pt. 2) Read More »
It’s Good Friday. A day dedicated to somber yet joyful remembrance of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. Of course, the oft-asked question is “what is ‘good’ about that?” It is good because of what the death of Jesus means for us. The Bible teaches that Jesus’ death on the Cross was what freed us from sin and …
Pierced For Our Transgressions: Treasuring the Glory of Penal Substitutionary Atonement Read More »
At the heart of the Gospel lies the doctrine of union with Christ. In many ways, union with Christ explains how we are saved, the implications of our salvation in the daily life of faith, and the end-goal of salvation. We are saved through union with Christ. We live our life of faith by union …
Spiritual realities are real. This may seem obvious enough but often I find that functionally, I (and many other Christians, I suspect) fail to truly internalize this truth and live it out. Our culture has been impacted by several centuries of naturalism. We’ve inherited, from our Enlightenment forefathers, a certain worldview. This worldview is very …
Last week, I began a two-part look at the crisis that faces our culture’s young men: a crisis of disillusion, disengagement, and disastrous despair. I proposed that to fight this crisis, we need to stand on four integrated pillars which themselves sit upon the solid foundation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Those four pillars …
About a month ago, I wrote about the dilemma of Christians in modern culture, particularly young men caught in the crosshairs between feminism and the occasionally-chauvinistic reaction to it. The conclusion I came to was that we needed to, as Christians, be faithful to follow Christ in His beautifully paradoxical nature and calling. Essentially, we …
Humanity has a big problem. It’s the problem of holiness. God, our Creator, is holy, which means that He is “set apart”. We are not holy. We bear the image of God but have been corrupted by sin. Sin separates us from God and thus, from life itself. This brings up a quandary. In God …
In the last installment of the series on eschatology titled “Our Blessed Hope” we began to examine the teachings of Jesus in the Olivet Discourse found in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21. We will pick up where we left off in Matthew 24, namely verse 15. So when you see the abomination of …
