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Resistance Is Not Futile
Joe Boot’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 is a rigorous, robust, and intelligent reaffirmation of the biblical worldview in the face of reigning secularism-neopaganism. Read the review here. Continue reading
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The Pleroma of the Son
Introduction Sin unleashed nothingness into the world. The Edenic world was brim-filled and overflowing with the goodness, righteousness, and joy of God actuated by creation’s mediator, God’s only Son. The creation account speaks of “filling” the earth and its “abundance.” God-ness drenched everything (though, of course, not in a pantheistic sense). Sin introduced cosmic rebellion. Continue reading
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What I Do
It occurred to me that I often take for granted when I post on social media that everybody knows what I do. I’ve been leading the Center for Cultural Leadership for almost 23 years now, and I assume everybody knows that. Apparently, they don’t. So here’s a quick summary of what I do: I lead Continue reading
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Baptist and Paedobaptist Very Hot Takes
For some reason the temperature of the perennial arguments between Baptists and paedobaptists has spiked, though it seems to me most of the faulty hot takes lately have been over-microwaved by my fellow paedobaptists. Here’s a humble exhortation from somebody that’s been on both sides of this issue and studied it for 40 years: If Continue reading
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The Character of Christ’s Kingdom
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed he shall not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. (Is. 42:2, 3) A principal theme of the Old Testament prophets relating to Messiah’s glorious kingdom Continue reading
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Clinging to Our Torments
It is one of the great mysteries of the hold of sin that we cling so tenaciously to those vices that most grieve and torture us — resentment, unhappiness, jealousy, vengeance, anxiety, bitterness, covetousness, pessimism, and unbelief. Our fist-clenched grasp on these self-destructive sins is almost a form of masochism. We cherish them despite the Continue reading
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Marriage Is Not Christian
Reducing marriage to a Christian institution might seem pious, but it’s not God- or Bible-honoring. Read it here. Continue reading
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In Praise of Marrying Young
Not just being together, but changing together. Read it here. Continue reading
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The Bible Is Complementarian, 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 Trinity is equal in being [one nature or “ousia”], the Son is eternally subordinate to the Father in function. There are still a few pushback Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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Resurrecting Liberalism
Modern conservatives know that they’re actually old-time liberals and should reclaim the term. Read the article here. Continue reading
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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 like Ruth Bader Ginsburg who knew full well there was no Constitutional right to such embedded in the Constitution. It. Was. Bad. Law. I demand Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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LGBTQ++: The Third Rail
Our work as biblical Christians is to de-privilege, de-normalize, and decimate the LGBTQ++ agenda. Read here. Continue reading
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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 of our Lord. Listen here. Continue reading
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We Can’t Be First-Century Evangelists
We cannot take for granted about our culture what the earliest first-century evangelists did about theirs. Read here. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading

