When the Lord Jesus Christ taught us to pray, He instructed us to petition our Heavenly Father that His kingdom would come and His will would be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matt. 6:9-10). There are a number of things this may mean. It expresses the petition that all the earth would …
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 …
Our cultural moment right now is an interesting one. There is a trend in our culture towards a bubble-wrapped society that is entirely safe and simultaneously entirely restrained. Sensitivity is the highest form of virtue, according to this trending ethos. We would rather lose our freedom to speak uncomfortable truth freely than face the discomfort …
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Perhaps you’ve heard the discussion surrounding a recent opinion article in the New York Times, written by David Brooks, titled “The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself”. Even if you haven’t seen the article or listened in on the debate surrounding it, it’s been hard to miss the growing division in the American church …
Today marks one year since the riot on Capitol Hill during the turbulent transition between Donald Trump’s presidency and that of Joe Biden. Last January I wrote about the road that led to the Capitol riot and the divergence that caught many of us by surprise. In a year, much has changed. Trump is no …
Reading the news has turned into a harrowing practice of castle intrigue. You never know who to trust while you’re sulking in the shadows. Perhaps that’s too dramatic. But the point is this: trust is hard to come by in our culture. “Fake news” is pervasive and everyone on the left is pointing the finger …
Each generation of the church has to grapple with issues of orthodoxy as the culture around them shifts. The first generation of the church had to grapple with the Gospel itself-what was the complete gospel and what was extra? Since then, various truths have been scrutinized and rejected. Various social and cultural issues have found …
In this series on Matthew 5:5 we’ve explored biblical meekness in the character of God and in the Scriptures. Now we turn to the practical application in our current cultural moment. Our culture now, both inside and outside the church, is wrestling with the issue of power. Outside the church, the issues of power, privilege …
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) is a story about a man (Walter Mitty, played by actor-director Ben Stiller) who shows steady faithfulness in often-thankless roles. He’s the “negative assets manager” for Life magazine, which has just been acquired and is going through a merger. He has also provided for his mother and sister …
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