Created by ChatGPT This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday, with red being the predominant liturgical color and many churches urging attendees to wear red memorializing the unique descent of the Holy Spirit fifty (“penta”) days after Passover, when Jesus had been…
Created by ChatGPT Before the 19th century, the right kind of life was determined by how you conformed to the Bible or to nature or to reason or experience. But after Romanticism, the best life was the life in which…
Created by ChatGPT I once heard a passionate preacher decrying egalitarianism in modern Christianity declare at a conference in trumpet tones: “Feminism began in the church!” He couldn’t have been more mistaken. Of all of the major cultural institutions, the…
Created by ChatGPT Most alert Christians enjoy a basic grasp of Christian worldview. It has become an increasingly used expression over the last three decades. It means a view of the world shaped by Christian presuppositions; it means viewing the…
Created by ChatGPT One of the signal benefits of a conventional liberal arts education (in distinction from most education today) is it liberates from the tyranny of the present. To use Martin Heidegger‘s metaphor, all of us are “thrown” into…
Created by ChatGBT Christians know Easter is a celebration of their Lord‘s resurrection, but if we take an additional step and inquire why the Lord’s resurrection should be celebrated, the significance becomes blurrier. Of course, we celebrate that Jesus is…
Created by ChatGPT The last century has been an increasingly individualistic age. Gradually the central social unit has become the atomistic individual — individual autonomy (self-law, a law to the self), and particularly sexual autonomy. The individual and his or…
Created by ChatGPT A dear friend recently took me to the largest indoor antique mall I’ve ever encountered. I’ve walked through the massive, blocks-saturating antique fair at Spittlefields, England, but this indoor mall was the size of a Super Walmart.…
Created by ChatGPT Most Christians have a generic sense of the definition of church: something like: sinners graciously called out of the world to trust in Jesus Christ, united under pastoral oversight in liturgical worship for biblical instruction and mutual…
When we children of the Reformation hear “false gospel,” we almost instantaneously think of the medieval message of soteric synergism: man cooperates with God in his own justification. Jesus Christ does the original heavy lifting on the cross, but we…
