In Praise of Marrying Young
Not just being together, but changing together. Read it here.
The Bible Is Complementarisn, But Don’t Monkey Around With the Trinity
A majority of complementarian evangelical scholars sympathetic to the eternal economic subordination of the Son (EES) returned to the orthodox position in 2016. (EES = though each member of the…
Confessional Postmillennialism
“Eschatology isn’t just about last things. It’s also about first things. What you believe about eschatology will affect how you live your life.” Read here.
Resurrecting Liberalism
Modern conservatives know that they’re actually old-time liberals and should reclaim the term. Read the article here.
David Bahnsen: Everybody, Not Just Pro-Lifers, Should Be Celebrating Dobbs
Those celebrating the repeal of Roe v. Wade should not be limited to the pro-lifers who rightly see it as an avenue towards reduced abortions, but it should be pro-choicers…
Scriptural Repulsion of “Same-Sex Attraction”
Creating a church environment safe for the self-satisfied, unrepentant same-sex attracted ( = tempted) is really a gateway drug to the practice of homosexuality. Read the article here.
Utopia and Revolution: Politics, Economics, Sex, and the Church
The utopian revolutionaries are savaging every last residue of Christian culture, and the church’s double-decker Christianity has abetted the savagery. Read here.
Prayer, Covenant, and the Nations
The ascended Lord is presently ruler of the nations, trampling down his enemies by Spirit, gospel and law, and our prayer, evangelism, and life should aggressively reflect this cosmic reign…
The Alt-World
Satan offers man an alternative reality to God’s good created world, but God in Christ is de-privileging, deconstructing, and demolishing that world. Listen here.
Red-Letter Christianity Versus Jot-and-Tittle Christianity
Only jot-and-tittle Christianity can vanquish the evils in the modern church and world. Read the rest here.
Leftist Intellectuals
The self-appointed champions of the oppressed menace the world. Read it here.
Roe Was Always About Revolutionary Sex
“Leftists lust to kill … because they lust to lust.” Read the article here .
Political Pulpits
“Every church and every pulpit is political. The only question is: Whose politics?” Read here.
Liberalism’s Funeral
“True liberalism holds much more in common with modern conservatism than either does with 21st century progressivism.” Read it here.
Easter Anthropology
“Ancient pagan views of man infested the church and have led to Christian withdrawal from God’s good world. Easter radically overturns this error.” Read the rest here.
Collectivist Man: Europeanizing the United States
PEOPLE MAKE CULTURES, but cultures make people. In The Character of Nations, Angelo Codevilla shows that over time, the distinctives of a political regime create a particular kind of individual…
Recovering Regal Soteriology: Christ’s Kingship in Salvation and All of Life
Deeply entrenched ideas die hard, and this includes bad ideas, even (perhaps especially) bad ideas in Christian history. Examples abound, but one of the most prominent is the gradual shift…
Contra Contrarians
We must not refuse to stand with majorities when they are right, any more than we may stand with majorities when they are wrong, simply because they are majorities. Read…
Ten Books Most Formative in My Thinking
Books, like people, shape and reshape our lives. Here are the ones that shaped and reshaped mine. Read it here.
The Kingdom of God Is Not a Personal Salvation Cult
Stephen C. Perks’ latest iconoclastic essay bluntly dismisses Protestantism as a failure and offers a renaissance of the apostolic kingdom of God as the only viable replacement. Read the article…
David L. Bahnsen on Inflation, Supply-Chain Shortages, and the Fed
David L. Bahnsen is Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, overseeing the management of over $3.5 billion in client assets. Prior to launching The Bahnsen…
False Antinomy: Jesus’ Kingdom Gospel Versus Paul’s Salvation Gospel
Jesus’ victorious Satan-crushing gospel = Paul’s cross-and-resurrection salvation gospel. Read the post here.
Recovering Regal Soteriology
To lure sinners with the delights of eternal life while obscuring the demands of Christ’s Lordship over them is a supreme evangelistic cruelty. Read the post here.
The Christmas God is the Real God
“There is no God standing behind or above Jesus Christ. To try to get behind the Bible to the “real” God is a form of idolatry, framing God in man’s…
Thoughts on Self-Respecting Manhood and the Use of Public Language, by Eric Anderson
I Corinthians 16:13….”act like men”. There is something which has struck me over the past couple of years, as it relates to men in our culture. That is, the jettisoning…
A Brilliant, Profound, Complex Credo on Covid and Liberty
If you want to get vaxxed, get vaxxed. If you don’t want to get vaxxed, don’t get vaxxed. If you want to wear a mask, wear one. If you don’t…
Some on Broken Pieces, by Salle J. Sandlin
Of the many hundreds of articles my late godly mother wrote, none has moved me as deeply as this one. If you feel your life is an irreversible series of…
One Crusader’s Calling
If we don’t have Christian crusaders in the culture, Christian crusaders in family and church won’t matter much. Read the article here.
God Loves to Make — and Keep — Promises
God loves to bury His people beneath an avalanche of promises. It’s remarkable how our orthodoxy tends to extend to everything except trusting his promises. Listen here.
God’s Ways Are Normal and the World’s Ways Are Weird
Exposing a great deception by the Father of Lies. A short, blunt message for Christian young people. Listen here.
Answered Prayers Should Be Routine
The Bible does not hold up the saints of those eras as enjoying more successful prayer lives than ours. Listen here.
Christian Worldview Versus Gnosticism, Escapism, Pietism, and Defeatism
Alien worldviews in the church have rendered it impotent against an unbelieving cultural onslaught. Listen here.
No Longer Together 4 the Gospel
“T4G has painfully learned that because theology is the fruit of worldview, a generally sound theology, while creditable, is no guarantee of biblical fidelity.” Read the rest here.
Prayer Changes Things, and Prayer Changed Me
A short autobiographical message on the power of prayer to change a life. Listen here. Also: One striking difference between our Christian forebears and us is their repeated emphasis on…
Cultural Bipolar Disorder
Rebuilding Christian culture demands restoring the multi-polar society.
Critical Theory Is Neither Meat Nor Bones — It Is Alien
As I observe from a distance the current debate in major conservative denominations over the possibility of employing aspects of Critical Theory (CT), including Critical Race Theory, keeping the meat and…
The Ruinous Calamity of the Ruling Class
Never assume the U. S. has escaped the caste system. The late Angelo Codevilla has devised the monikers “Ruling Class” and “Country Class” to describe the castes that bitterly divide…
Statism as Toleration
Statism is tolerant of any ideas and actions that will guarantee and enhance its own authority, and undermines or dilutes institutions like the family and the church that compete with…
The Fundamentalist Temptation
Fundamentalism, while sincere, sold virile Christianity into 20th century cultural bondage, and wherever it rears its head, it ends up emboldening that cultural depravity. Read the article here.
Vaccine Mandates and Crony Statism
Biblical law relating to protecting human life is preventive, not preemptive. Aside from preventing the reckless, direct threat to human life, civil law may not intrude on human liberty. Read…
Prayer, Fuel of the Kingdom
No single human factor contributes more to the advance of Christ’s kingdom than mighty, faith-drenched, persevering prayer. Listen here.
Apostasy, Perseverance, and Assurance
All of those justified in Jesus Christ are eternally secure, but all who abandon the Faith are without hope and destined to eternal judgment. Listen here.
Reformational Christianity, Now, More Than Ever
“To de-objectify the Faith is to overturn divinely established institutions like the church. To de-subjectivize the Faith is to undercut divinely mandated internal consecration. Both are fatal.” Read the article…
Apostasy and Assurance
“If we’re united to Jesus Christ, we will persevere and cannot apostatize, and we can have rock-solid assurance that we cannot.” Read the rest here.
Save the Date for CCL’s 2021 Symposium on Economics
Saturday, December 4 Center for Cultural Leadership Annual Symposium in San Francisco 9 AM — 3 PM Includes catered lunch in a four-star hotel on the Bay Theme: Un-Virtuous Economics:…
The Outward Turn
“The ‘inward turn’ of modernity has finally transformed every autonomous human into a rebellious reality-manufacturer and reduced muscular public Christianity to a jejune private mystery religion.” Read the rest here.
Let’s Celebrate Christian Pride Millennia
“The worldview that gave us Gay Pride Month could never have given us the free society, and, if unchecked, will decimate it.” Read the rest here.
ATF 2021R-08, “Factoring Criteria for Firearms With Attached ‘Stabilizing Braces,’” by Brian G. Mattson
Brian G. Mattson is a public theologian, Senior Scholar of Public Theology for the Center for Cultural Leadership, and adjunct professor at Westminster Theological Seminary. He holds a Ph.D. from…
The Collision Course of Christian Exclusivity
“What has changed over my lifetime is the self-consciousness of Leftists and secularists. They can no longer peacefully coexist with Christians. As in imperial Rome, Christians must go.” Read the…
Allegiant Baptism
Introduction Few topics generate more theological debate with less productivity than baptism. I observed recently a reignition on social media of the baptist-paedobaptist dispute; and as nearly always, it included…
Ready to Ship or Download: “Failed Church: Restoring a Vision of Ecclesial Victory”
Church 2022 looks significantly different from its 2015 iteration, though even then signs of impending infection were not absent. Get the book here.
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