Thoughts on Scripture and life
for the glory of Jesus Christ
Identity (Part 4): Satisfied in God
God alone satisfies the ache for meaning and purpose. You were made to delight in Him. God alone is worth living for. Everything and everyone else leads to death. You were made to be happy in Him.
Identity (Part 3): Delighted in God
Being a Christian is so much more than just going to church, learning right theology, and going through the motions of being a “good Christian.” I want all that you are—your heart, soul, mind, strength; your affections, desires, wants; your hopes, dreams, ambitions; your love, your joy, your peace—to be for our Savior. That is the good life. That is the abundant life that Christ promised, when we are enraptured with His love and fully happy in Him.
Identity (Part 2): Whose Are You?
Instead of wandering in the desert, mists here today and gone tomorrow, a spiritual vagabond and vagrant with no home, no peace, no love, would you not rather be a child of the living God, home with the Heavenly Father, safe in His care? Dear Christian, know who you are. You belong to God!
Identity (Part 1): Who Are You?
Identity is crucial.1 Identity not only defines how we introduce ourselves, but also dictates how and why we live. Through our identity, we interpret the world, understand relationships, choose our actions, have stability, and worship. …Our problem is that there are a billion voices clamoring to define who and what we are.
The Endings of the Book of Mark
What is the true ending to the book of Mark?
The Critical Race Theory (CRT) Worldview
Critical Race Theory (CRT) teaches that throughout history, all institutions (social and legal) have been inherently racist, creating a world where white people have been granted an intrinsic advantage over colored people.
Theodicy: Answering the Problem of Evil
If God was all-good, then He would desire to eliminate all evil. If He was all-powerful, then He could eliminate all evil. But because there is evil in the world, He is either not all-powerful, not all-good, or both. And if He is not, then He is not the Christian God and therefore God does not exist.
Why Presuppositional Apologetics?
When understood and practiced rightly, presuppositional apologetics (PA) is the only apologetical framework that consistently operates under the authority and light of Scripture.
What is Presuppositional Apologetics?
Presuppositional apologetics (PA) is the apologetical framework that teaches that the biblical worldview is the only viable interpretation of reality, and thus must be presupposed (not abandoned) to answer the objections of unbelief.
What is Apologetics?
Christian apologetics is the act of defending the Christian faith as reasonable, consistent, and true.
Help Me, Lord!
In desperation, the father says to Jesus, “If you can do anything…” He just doesn’t know if Jesus can. Jesus gently rebukes him, basically answering his question with, “I can. But do you believe?” The father then replies with one of the most heart wrenching statements in the book of Mark: “I believe! Help my unbelief!” This, tragically, summarizes the Christian life.
Discipleship: Come and Die (Part 3)
Jesus is the One who denied Himself. Jesus is the One who took up His cross. Jesus is the One who followed the will of God—suffering, rejection, crucifixion—and then was raised from the dead. As disciples, all we are doing is copying Him.
Discipleship: Come and Die (Part 2)
Why would you want a lifetime of chasing after fleeting pleasure if it costs you an eternity of suffering? Why would you seek to gain the whole world and yet forfeit eternal life?
Discipleship: Come and Die (Part 1)
Jesus demands it all. He demands your entire life. “Die to yourself and your desires. Be willing to die for Me, even on a cross. Follow Me in everything, every giving up your life.”
Partakers of the First Resurrection
All the saints who died before the millennium—whether they be OT saints, church age saints, pretribulation saints, or tribulation saints—have a part in the first resurrection.
Why Does God Love Us?
The question I want to answer in this post is, “Why does God loves us?” I am speaking particularly of His fatherly love for His children, for Christians—His love that gives salvation and eternal life. Why does He love us?
The Darkness of Spiritual Depression (Psalm 42/43)
Dear discouraged soul, hope in God. Our hope is not wishful thinking, but assurance based on God’s promises. Hope that He will not abandon you in your despair. Hope that in Christ, the best is always yet to come.
Is God Enough? (Psalm 73)
If you had no intelligence, no beauty, no status, no skill, no health, no family, no friends, no money, no one to love you, no earthly pleasure, nothing, absolutely nothing but God, would He be enough?
Two Responses to Christ: Fear or Faith?
If you are a Christian, I urge you: share how God saved you—not just as an evangelistic tool, but simply because it’s a wonderful story to tell.
Enslaved to Sin
Sin deceives us. Sin enslaves us. Sin isolates us. Sin torments us. Sin destroys us.