Category: Culture

This is an email I sent to my congregation this week, concerning Canadian bill C-4, which essentially makes the Christian faith illegal in Canada. TPC family, Last Sunday, Canadian bill C-4 forbidding “conversion therapy” for homosexuals and transgenders was mentioned in Sunday School, the opening exhortation, and the pastoral prayer. I wanted to follow up…

Let me preface this post by offering a couple caveats that will frame all that follows. First, any and all sin can be forgiven through Jesus’ death on the cross. There is no sin that is “too big” to be covered by the blood of Christ. This includes all manner of sexual sin, yes, even…

On Facebook, Michael Foster asked, “Why are so many grown children are going woke even though they came from healthy Christian homes?” I thought I’d try my hand at an answer. Below is a slightly edited version of what I put in the Facebooks comments section: I get asked regularly why I address “woke” issues…

With the 4th of July coming up, we are sure to hear a lot of America bashing, especially from progressives who see America as the root of all (or most all) evil. Christians in our nation are critical of America too, but in a different way. We are critical of our homeland because we love…

Question: Suppose you did not know humans came in different skin colors. Could you figure out that fact just from reading your Bible? I think you’d be hard pressed to discover the fact of varying levels of melanin just from the Scriptures. Yes, Scripture acknowledges different ethnicities, tribes, languages, etc., but it is (oddly, to…

I want to challenge an idea that is so common, it goes unnoticed and unchallenged much of the time. It is the idea that capitalism (aka, a free market economy) is built on greed. Many even of those who advocate for some form of capitalism concede this point. Some have even tried to argue that…

Many Christians today wonder what we can do to make a difference in our world. Of course, there are many good and biblical answers to that question, starting with faithfulness in worship and prayer, spilling over into fellowship/community and mercy ministry towards the poor. But nearly 100 years ago, J. Gresham Machen gave counsel to…

Where is Mr. Knightley when you need him? I do not subscribe to the “real men read Austen” philosophy. The only time I have read Austen is when I had to in order to teach the book, and despite having three daughters, I have managed to avoid watching the film adaptations of her works. I can…