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  • Life in the Father’s House: Why Should I Join a Church?

    Life in the Father’s House: Why Should I Join a Church?

    Note: This article was written in 1996 for the church newsletter of Redeemer Presbyterian (PCA) in Austin, TX, where I was serving at the time.] By and large, the church today is in a real mess. Because so many churches are unfaithful and unfruitful, it is somewhat easy for us to assume the church is… Read more

  • Creational Law, Scripture, and Homosexuality (Part 1)

    Creational Law, Scripture, and Homosexuality (Part 1)

    THIS SERIES OF BLOG POSTS IS TAKEN FROM MY 2015  ESSAY, “AMERICA’S WAR ON GOD AND SEXUAL ORTHODOXY.” In these blog posts, I will interact quite a bit with natural law, not because I believe natural law theory as such holds the answers to what ails our nation (Christ alone is our last, best, and only… Read more

  • Eight Criteria for a Biblical Political Theology

    Eight Criteria for a Biblical Political Theology

    Here are my criteria for a political theology: 1. It must incorporate special and general revelation, since biblical law and creational law were designed to work together. Special revelation is the lens through which we interpret nature, but God never intended either form of revelation to stand alone (e.g., special revelation was given even before… Read more

  • Hebrews 10 — Sermon Follow Up

    Hebrews 10 — Sermon Follow Up

    These are some follow up notes on the sermon from Hebrews 10:19-31. ——Some background on the billboard on I-65. If you want the Sunday School version of the sermon , go here. If you want the youth Bible study version, go here. —— Here’s thumbnail sketch of the argument: Why go to church? And to supplement the argument for church… Read more

  • Sex as Glue

    Sex as Glue

    This is an interpretive paraphrase/rewriting of 1 Corinthians 7:1-9, a key text on marital sexuality. If Paul had elaborated and explained himself more fully in these verses, I think he would have said something like this: [1] You wrote to me, “It is good for a man to not touch – that is, to not… Read more

  • The Story of Work

    The Story of Work

    Work, like so many other things in our culture today, has been politicized. Over the last few years, articles lamenting the lack of workers due to the “great resignation” have been common. Some blame the declining workforce on government programs that pay people to not work, while others blame corporations and businesses that undercompensate their… Read more