Tag: god
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What Is a Christian Nation?
People sometimes ask, “What would a Christianized nation look like?” I’m glad you asked. Thankfully, God actually set up a nation one time and gave them a law. So we don’t really have to guess. We can just look at the nation God established and the law he gave them. We can study the Torah…
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Church Courts and Civil Courts
When Christians cannot resolve their differences privately, God commands that we turn to the church rather than to the civil courts. Unfortunately, many Christians are unaware of this command or believe that it no longer applies today. Worse yet, many churches ignore this passage and do nothing to help Christians settle their disputes in a…
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Leadership Requires a High Pain Threshold
Edwin Friedman is one of the best authors to read on leadership. In several places, he makes the point that in order to lead well, a leader has to not only raise his own threshold for pain, but his willingness to endure someone else’s pain as well. This is why empathy can be so destructive…
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Ecclesiocentrism Is Not Ecclesiocracy
Ecclesiocentrism is not ecclesiocracy. The church’s authority and centrality derive from her mission to disciple the nation by proclaiming and applying the Word of God to all of life; her access to the heavenly throne room in prayer, which means even if she does not have access to the Oval Office or the royal chamber…
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Work Until the Workday Is Done: A Lesson from Whitefield and Tennent
A summary and application of a story told by Iain Murray in his fine book, The Puritan Hope: George Whitefield was once among a group of pastors and they were discussing the burdens of ministry, how consoling it was to consider that this life would soon be over, and how glorious it would be when…
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Israel in Exile and the Politics of the Kingdom
Some Christians use the motif of Israel’s exile to justify why Christians should not have (or seek) political power and cultural influence. We live in Babylon, so we cannot expect very much transformation of the world around us. We “lose down here,” as the saying goes. There’s no need to fight a “culture war” or…
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: A SHORT NOTE ON THE WILSON/JORDAN REGENERATION CONTROVERSY
I wrote this elsewhere as a footnote in another essay (http://trinity-pres.net/essays/obergefellandamericaswarongod.pdf), but since it islikely to get overlooked, I have pulled it out and turned it into itsown short paper for those who might be interested. The debatebetween Doug Wilson and Jim Jordan over regeneration pits two menwhom I respect and from whom I have…
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Christ’s Lordship Over the Nations: Why Christian Nationalism is Inseparable from the Gospel
Christian Nationalism is not an historical oddity. It’s been the historical norm for most of church history for most of the church. A nation that thinks it can be areligious, that thinks it can divorce religion from culture and politics, is the historical oddity. Secularism is the historical oddity. An atheistic public square has never…
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September ’25 X Posts and Other Notes: Socialism, America’s Founding, Third-Wayism/Kellerism, Progressivism, Political Preaching, Christendom/Christian Nationalism, Islam, MLK, Socialism and Wealth, Creation vs Evolution, Discipleship, Puritanism, Androgyny in the PCA, Racial Identity Politics, Immigration, Culture Wars, Kirk and Baucham, Polarized World, Nietzsche, Courage, Leftwing Political Violence, Etc.
If speech is violence, then violence is a justified response to speech. — We are now in polarized world. C. S. Lewis explained what is happening in our culture: “If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family—anything you like—at a given point in its history, you always find that there was…
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Some Notes on America’s Christian Founding
Classical liberalism, at least the America version of it, was very illiberal by the standards of modern liberalism. If America was founded as a classically liberal nation, consider all the evidence of our Christian founding: *The Mayflower Compact was explicitly Christian in character and content * 75% of those who declared independence were of Puritan…
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