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  • Culture War as Spiritual War

    Culture War as Spiritual War

    Excellent article from Abigail Dodds. We are called to fight sin everywhere, in our hearts and in the culture. For Christians, the so-called culture war is not a contradiction of the cross, but a consequence of the cross. We can fight a culture war precisely because Christ has already defeated the principalities and powers. Read more

  • In Praise of Motherhood

    In Praise of Motherhood

    Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may Read more

  • Easter Exhortation: Love Stronger Than Death

    Easter Exhortation: Love Stronger Than Death

    In our experience, death is always stronger than love. We know this because our loved ones die. Our love cannot fight off death, our love cannot keep others alive forever. And, of course, others’ love for us cannot keep us alive either. Death seems to win out over love every time. But Easter changes all Read more

  • Baptismal Exhortation: Baptism as Holy Week in Sacramental Form

    Baptismal Exhortation: Baptism as Holy Week in Sacramental Form

    Today, these parents have come to claim God’s promises to and about their children. God says to us, “I will be a God to you and to your children.” In baptism, we claim that covenant pledge and God acts to make good on that pledge. In baptism, parents give their children to God, and God Read more

  • Baptismal Exhortation: His Blood Be Upon us and Our Children

    Baptismal Exhortation: His Blood Be Upon us and Our Children

    Easter Sunday is the culmination of Holy Week, but in considering the meaning of baptism today, I want us to go back to Jesus’ trial before Pilate. When Jesus was on trial, the crowd cried out, “His blood be on us and on our children.” By that, they meant that they judged Jesus worthy of Read more

  • The Resurrection and Women Preachers

    The Resurrection and Women Preachers

    Some memes are funny and accurate. Other memes are misleading or even dishonest. There is a meme going around right now that says something like, “In the interest of biblical accuracy, all preaching about the resurrection this Easter Sunday will be done by women.” One does not have to appeal to the more obvious texts Read more